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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
The number of women receiving degrees in the male-dominated computer science area has declined and the gender gap is widening, says Lana Verschage, director of...GoodCall From ACM Careers | January 17, 2017
Underneath the nostalgia and hope in President Obama's farewell address Tuesday night was a darker theme: the struggle to help the people on the losing end of technological...The New York Times From ACM News | January 13, 2017
Three years after its low-cost MOOC-inspired master’s degree program in computer science launched, the institute announces a new program in analytics priced at...Inside Higher Ed From ACM Careers | January 13, 2017
Researchers used a Donkey Kong processor as a model organism to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way the brain processes...PLOS From ACM Careers | January 13, 2017
"Tennis for Two," a video games developed in 1958 by Brookhaven Lab physicist Willy Higinbotham, has been added to the permanent collection of The Strong Museum...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | January 12, 2017
On Jan. 9, 2007, 10 years ago Monday, Steve Jobs formally announced Apple's "revolutionary mobile phone"—a device that combined the functionality of an iPod, phone...NPR From ACM Careers | January 12, 2017
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that magnetic properties can be created and annihilated in a nonmagnetic material with precise application...SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory From ACM Careers | January 12, 2017
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...The Guardian From ACM News | January 11, 2017
Facebook is increasingly owning up to its role as one of the world’s largest distributors of information by taking more responsibility for the millions of stories...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 11, 2017
Running on GPUs instead of CPUs, the MapD database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.
MIT News From ACM Careers | January 11, 2017
The U.S. federal budget for research and development rose for the third straight year in Fiscal Year 2016, but is still below FY 2010 levels, according to a new report....S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | January 11, 2017
Patient number two was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated.
Wired From ACM Careers | January 10, 2017
Scientists grew a vertically aligned nanocomposites lattice on with layers that exhibited strong, perpendicular (vertical) magnetic coupling, which could lead to....S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | January 10, 2017
The MIT Media Lab and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society are the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at addressing the...MIT Media Lab From ACM Careers | January 10, 2017
Business needs a new story about its purpose to enable the kind of productive and creative activity that will become even more critical to its success in the emerging...niversity of Virginia Darden School of Business From ACM Careers | January 9, 2017
Scientists determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms....S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | January 9, 2017
Working with artists with disabilities, a team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been creating more accessible tools and instruments...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | January 6, 2017