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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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The technological hurdles to embracing big data are well-known at this point—McKinsey & Co. predicted a shortage of nearly 200,000 skilled data analysts by 2018—but...GigaOm From ACM Careers | March 30, 2012
The market for online classes in programming, Web construction, and application development is booming. New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2012
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...The New York Times From ACM News | March 26, 2012
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students...NASA From ACM Careers | March 23, 2012
For Jacob Arriola, a business development manager for a Spanish media company in Los Angeles, learning to program wasn't a necessity. But figuring it might help...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 21, 2012
A new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...Appcelerator Inc. From ACM Careers | March 20, 2012
A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2012
Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | March 16, 2012
Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression Markov Chain method has a history of accuracy as a predictor of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. It predicts this year's...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | March 15, 2012
Australian research scientist Jack da Silva used computer simulations to discover that a human immunodeficiency virus, even at an early phase of infection, evolves...Genetics Society of America From ACM Careers | March 15, 2012
High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...Paul Hyman From ACM News | March 13, 2012
Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 8, 2012
Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.CNET From ACM Careers | March 8, 2012
The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...Zero Robotics From ACM Careers | March 7, 2012
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...Wired From ACM Careers | March 7, 2012