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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...The New York Times From ACM News | June 5, 2017
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2017
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
After AlphaGo's historic victory against South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol in March 2016, Go teacher Jianlun Qian felt a sense of impending crisis. He fretted...Technology Review From ACM Careers | June 1, 2017
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 31, 2017
A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. "Incoming. Take cover," it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.
Wired From ACM Careers | May 30, 2017
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...Scientific American From ACM News | May 26, 2017
A team of researchers has built a set of synthetic genes that function in living cells like NOR gates, a common element of electronic circuitry.
niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | May 26, 2017
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a printed battery that is flexible, stretchable, and rechargeable, a step toward self-powered...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM Careers | May 25, 2017
Google's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow—and a few games of Go.
Bloomberg From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
At the VR keynote at Google's IO developer conference, a slide appeared on screen to start the morning's presentation. Clay Bavor, head of AR and VR for Google,...CNET From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2017
Companies without cyber insurance are dusting off policies covering kidnap, ransom and extortion in the world's political hotspots to recoup losses caused by ransomware...Reuters From ACM Careers | May 19, 2017
The world's largest genetics research center isn't at Harvard or Stanford or even the NIH. It's a 20-mile drive from Hong Kong International Airport, in the bustling...Wired From ACM News | May 19, 2017
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 18, 2017