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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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Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.BBC News From ACM Opinion | December 17, 2014
The strength of connections between languages in a network are better predictors of a language's global influence than either the population or the wealth of...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Florida State University is set to launch a new program that will have students excited about their instructors droning on and on. A new course, Introduction to...Florida State University From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...Nature From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Through a project supported by DARPA, Sandia National Labs is developing technology to improve the endurance of legged robots to help them operate for long periods...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 16, 2014
Researchers have cleared a path toward a new kind of 2-D microchip that would use characteristics of electrons other than their electrical charge. Dubbed "valleytronics...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 15, 2014
A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 15, 2014
Researchers have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate, with very real implications for...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 15, 2014
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
A consortium of community colleges, national labs, and nonprofit educational institutes in California are pushing to create an educational core curriculum to...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory From ACM Careers | December 15, 2014
Maybe you read Gone Girl because Amazon recommended it; watched Breaking Bad because Netflix suggested you'd like it; even met the love of your life because OKCupid...New Scientist From ACM Careers | December 12, 2014
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded $1,199,998 over three years to Giti Khodaparast of Virginia Tech to probe "Nonlinear and Terahertz...Virginia Tech From ACM Careers | December 12, 2014
Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new thin-film chromium oxide resistors that could speed the development of quantum devices for computing...American Institute of Physics From ACM Careers | December 12, 2014
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 10, 2014