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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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Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about American surveillance, personifies a debate at the heart of technology...The New York Times From ACM News | June 25, 2013
Under a huge semi-opaque dome and with heavy security in attendance, visitors to the Paris Air Show peer at a strange looking shape.BBC News From ACM Careers | June 24, 2013
A 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet began a 3,200-mile trek this weekend from Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island to the U.S. Department of Energy's...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | June 24, 2013
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...The New York Times From ACM News | June 21, 2013
Robert Dennard, a U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM, has been honored with the prestigious Kyoto Prize and $500,000...PC World From ACM Careers | June 21, 2013
The University of California, San Diego, and the Open Science Grid have announced a partnership under which researchers will have access to the OSG's fabric of... From ACM Careers | June 20, 2013
Executives from leading technology firms want to require all Massachusetts public schools to teach computer science. The plan would compel classes as early as the...The Boston Globe From ACM CareerNews | June 11, 2013
A majority of Americans oppose the military's use of autonomous weaponry, with the strongest opposition coming from active and former military members, and from...niversity of Massachusetts Amherst From ACM Careers | June 20, 2013
TED Talks, the popular conference and events website, provides academics with increased popular exposure but does nothing to boost citations of their work by peers...Indiana University From ACM Careers | June 19, 2013
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.NASA From ACM News | June 19, 2013
The in-house legal teams at Silicon Valley companies are usually associated with intellectual property disputes, anti-trade spats, and the maneuvering around initial...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 18, 2013
Children in developing countries could educate themselves in "cloud schools" equipped with computers and online moderators but no physical teachers, Newcastle University...BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2013
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.Wired From ACM News | June 17, 2013
On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was an...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 17, 2013
Weekend Edition Sunday Host Rachel Martin talks to Joel Brenner, former senior counsel at the National Security Agency, about whether the NSA can protect Americans'...NPR From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2013