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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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Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.Scientific American From ACM News | March 10, 2016
What keeps software developers up at night, other than coding? The fear that artificial intelligence systems can replace them, according to a new survey.Computerworld From ACM Careers | March 9, 2016
Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2016
Madeline Gannon, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, has put the power of interacting with robots into a user's hands — literally. She's designed open...Carnegie Mellon niversity From ACM Careers | March 2, 2016
In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests.Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | March 1, 2016
On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...Wired From ACM Careers | February 29, 2016
When Daniel Nadler woke on Nov. 6, he had just enough time to pour himself a glass of orange juice and open his laptop before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released...The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 25, 2016
"Are you sure they're there?" the decision maker asks. "They" are Qaeda operatives who have been planning attacks against the United States.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 22, 2016
Researchers from the University of Southampton have designed innovative membrane wings inspired by bats, paving the way for a new breed of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles...University of Southampton From ACM Careers | February 19, 2016
MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...MIT News From ACM Careers | February 17, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...Financial Times From ACM News | February 10, 2016
Inspired by creepy cockroaches, UC Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can crawl even when squashed to half its size.niversity of California, Berkeley From ACM Careers | February 10, 2016
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2016
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2016
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Zoology professor and founder of the Artificial Life Laboratory at the University of Graz in AustriaBloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 29, 2016
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 29, 2016
A robot just gave your insurance agent a pink slip. Move over Jake from State Farm. Your replacement's name is Evia, short for "expert virtual insurance agent."CNET From ACM Careers | January 28, 2016
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 22, 2016