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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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A UT Dallas team will use a $522,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to look into tapping the power of smartphones to boost the quality of...niversity of Texas at Dallas From ACM Careers | February 9, 2015
A team of Missouri S&T researchers has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using a smartphone camera.Missouri niversity of Science and Technology From ACM Careers | February 9, 2015
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | February 6, 2015
To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.Nature From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
As the second and final day of the 2015 DICE Summit came to a close, Alexey Pajitnov took the stage in a rare public appearance to talk frankly about the history...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2015
A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has demonstrated that using metal-alloy catalysts can give more control over nanowire fabrication.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
At large news agencies where speed is crucial, template-style stories have long been used for company results, allowing journalists to simply key in the relevant...CNN From ACM News | February 5, 2015
The people clamoring for tough, new regulations for Internet service—everyone from net neutrality activists and a few blue-chip companies to President Obama and ...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2015
New algorithms designed by researchers at UC Berkeley and UMass allow a robot to do laundry without any specific knowledge of what it has to wash.U.S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | February 5, 2015
With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...Iowa State University From ACM Careers | February 5, 2015
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.Nature From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Computers are able to use monkey facial patterns to correctly identify and distinguish individuals within species. The findings suggest that machine learning can...New York University From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Privacy law expert Neil M. Richards argues in a new book that digital technologies should give more attention to the important human values that required hard fights...Washington niversity in St. Louis From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
New research shows that graphene and related 2-D materials could be used to create the first generation of light-emitting electronic devices that are thin, flexible... From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
The artificial-intelligence industry, a field that conjures up images of humanoid robots and self-aware computer systems, is making a comeback at Silicon Valley...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | February 3, 2015
China had 649 million Internet users by the end of 2014, with 557 million of those using handsets to go online, said a government report on Tuesday, as the world's...Reuters From ACM News | February 3, 2015
Controversy has erupted over China's highest science prize for 2014. Critics are blasting the winning project, on network computing, as not innovative and undeserving...ScienceInsider From ACM Careers | February 3, 2015
In the last three months of 2014, the Associated Press published 3,000 articles on the earning reports of U.S. companies. Previously it could publish only 300.The Washington Post From ACM News | February 2, 2015