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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
A University of Illinois research group is defining a new sub-area of mobile computing called "earable computing" that sees earphones as the next significant milestone...University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From ACM Careers | December 16, 2020
The amount of time spent on a smartphone is not related to poor mental health, according to a study published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior.
Lancaster University From ACM Careers | December 2, 2020
Video games can be lifesaving, grounding, and even therapeutic for those who have served overseas in combat zones.
Wired From ACM Careers | October 21, 2020
Researchers from the National University of Singapore developed a smartphone-powered suit capable of providing athletes with real-time physiological data about...National University of Singapore From ACM Careers | September 21, 2020
Samvit Agarwal and 249 other high school student volunteers provide kids from grades 3 to 12 with free computer science lessons.
NJ.com From ACM Careers | September 15, 2020
Organizations and students in China can no longer access the website of Scratch, the programming language developed at the MIT Media Lab.
TechCrunch From ACM Careers | September 8, 2020
Researchers from North Carolina State University conducted a large-scale study of robocalls, and report on useful tools and perspectives for researchers, investigators...North Carolina State University From ACM Careers | August 19, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the need to reinvent education. A new book by Sanjay Sarma, MIT's vice president for open learning, points a way.
MIT News From ACM Careers | August 18, 2020
Fifteen-year-old Ian Michael Block is looking for 375,000 people to donate a dollar to fund a virtual summer camp that combines computer programming and personal...Dream Hustle Code From ACM Careers | July 27, 2020
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute built a tool that could automatically make email sentences more polite.
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette From ACM Careers | July 9, 2020
Students from Cornell University designed a "smart" respiratory mask that prevents the spread of airborne diseases while monitoring the wearer's vital signs.
Cornell University From ACM Careers | May 7, 2020
Using machine learning, I'm able to reduce the time required for designing products from months to mere hours as well as free up time for engineers to focus on...Arquimedes Canedo From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2020
Employees who feel "on" all the time are at a higher risk of burnout when working from home than if they were going to the office as usual.
Harvard Business Review From ACM Careers | April 7, 2020
The 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces is taking place entirely online this year, with social events hosted completely in virtual environments...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | March 25, 2020
Unless you've been a full-time work-from-home type since before the arrival of COVID-19, WFH is uncharted territory full of missteps, problems, and unexpected consequences...CNET From ACM Careers | March 25, 2020
Justine Haupt developed a rotary cellphone to dodge the hyper-connected world of touchscreen smartphones. "I wanted something that would be entirely mine, personal...Wired From ACM Careers | February 14, 2020
Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with Aquila Inc. to develop and test a biometric security system based on the human heartbeat.
From ACM Careers | October 8, 2019
Apple will offer hackers up to $1 million for finding vulnerabilities in iPhones and Macs. That's the highest bug bounty on offer from any major tech company.
Forbes From ACM Careers | August 9, 2019
Textbook publishing giant Pearson is ending regular revisions of all print textbooks in its higher-education category and will focus instead on updating its digital...CBS News From ACM Careers | July 18, 2019