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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
The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space—to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | June 9, 2017
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2017
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...Reuters From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
Few U.S. industries are growing as fast as health care, but the big public-cloud companies—Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google—have struggled to crack the $3.2 trillion...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
An 800-line block of code helps users maintaining access to the performance and functionality of Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance supercomputers...Los Alamos National Laboratory From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 7, 2017
People who use fake profiles online could be more easily identified, thanks to a new tool developed by computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh.
niversity of Edinburgh From ACM Careers | June 7, 2017
Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...Wired From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...Nature From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 5, 2017
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2017
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