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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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In late 2006, 22-year-old Adam D'Angelo confronted a serious problem. Facebook, then a small Silicon Valley startup, had picked him to be its chief technology...Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 18, 2011
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to a team lead by University of Virginia computer scientist David Evans for a project to develop...niversity of Virginia From ACM Careers | October 18, 2011
During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...Scientific American From ACM News | October 17, 2011
Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy...Missouri niversity of Science and Technology From ACM Careers | October 12, 2011
More than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information, a number that vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 7, 2011
For more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 3, 2011
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...BBC News From ACM News | October 3, 2011
Packing for business in China? Bring your passport and business cards, but maybe not that laptop loaded with contacts and corporate memos.The Washington Post From ACM News | September 28, 2011
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 12, 2011
The terror attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the lives of all Americans—few more so than the millions who have participated in the...Wired From ACM News | September 8, 2011
As people across the country suffer from long-term unemployment, the tech industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. Particularly in software development...National Public Radio From ACM Careers | September 6, 2011
A study of the dynamics of an open source community suggests a "performance–based clustering" phenomenon in which most collaborations involve accomplished developers...niversity of Texas, Dallas From ACM Careers | September 6, 2011
An exchange between two robot avatars set up as a demonstration for an artificial intelligence class at Cornell University quickly devolved into conversational...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | August 31, 2011
A Virginia Tech researcher has won a five-year U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award to address cross-layer network incompatibility issues to help speed...Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State niversity From ACM Careers | August 31, 2011
Back to school time and millions of British kids are heading back to classrooms to embark on the national curriculum so beloved of busybody ministers.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2011
Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster, and...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 26, 2011
The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers...Ohio State niversity From ACM Careers | August 23, 2011
You want a good look at Silicon Valley's bipolar job market? Step into the 11th-floor office of Young Sohn. The CEO of Santa Clara-based Inphi is tearing his...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | August 22, 2011
The conference for the best hackers in the free world is held every year in Las Vegas. It's called DefCon. The entrance fee is $150, cash only. (And it's a bad...National Public Radio From ACM Careers | August 17, 2011