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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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Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.Science Magazine From ACM Careers | March 14, 2014
Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.Nature From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.Forbes From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...Popular Mechanics From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...Stanford Report From ACM News | March 13, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2014
In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...Alan Winfield From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 10, 2014
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.Nieman Journalism Review From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto is a 64-year-old Japanese-American former defense contractor living in a modest Temple City, Calif. suburban home. Speaking with...Newsweek From ACM Careers | March 6, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014
A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.Wired From ACM News | March 5, 2014
MIT hosted a daylong workshop on big data and privacy, co-sponsored by the White House, as part of a 90-day review of data privacy policy announced in January...MIT News From ACM Careers | March 5, 2014