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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
Instead of just fretting about how robots and AI will eliminate jobs, we should explore new ways for humans and machines to collaborate, says Daniela Rus, director...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 9, 2017
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 8, 2017
Hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) experts have called on governments to ban weaponized robots capable of autonomously deciding whether people live or die...Newsweek From ACM Careers | November 8, 2017
Computer simulations are helping researchers overcome the challenge of working with 2-D materials in order to accurately characterize material structures and functions...Argonne National Laboratory From ACM Careers | November 7, 2017
Kai-Fu Lee, one of China's best-known technologists and investors, thinks artificial intelligence is about to supplant many millions of the country's office workers...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 6, 2017
Researchers from the University of Utah have discovered that a special kind of perovskite can be layered on a silicon wafer to create a vital component for the...niversity of tah From ACM Careers | November 6, 2017
This summer, DefCon's "Voting Machine Hacking Village" turned up a host of US election vulnerabilities (PDF). Now, imagine a more mainstream national hacking event...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | November 3, 2017
Nathan Treff was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 24. It's a disease that runs in families, but it has complex causes. More than one gene is involved. And the...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 3, 2017
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2017
Late in 2015, Gilberto Titericz, an electrical engineer at Brazil's state oil company Petrobras, told his boss he planned to resign, after seven years maintaining...Wired From ACM Careers | October 30, 2017
If you're a new parent, or prone to abstract theorizing, you've probably spent some late nights wondering what the future holds for job seekers.
Time From ACM Careers | October 26, 2017
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2017
In 2005, shortly after earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sam Cape was looking for work online when he came across a cryptic help...NPR From ACM News | October 25, 2017
The headquarters of Fanuc sit in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, on a sprawling, secluded campus of 22 windowless factories and dozens of office buildings.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 23, 2017
The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance—even...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2017