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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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To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | June 12, 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
For the sixth year running, MIT sits atop the 2018 QS World University Rankings. Notable developments include six Chinese universities in the top 100 for the first...QS World niversity Rankings 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
Three schools in South Dakota will continue collaborative efforts to encourage more Native American students to enter science, technology, engineering, and math...Oglala Lakota College From ACM Careers | June 7, 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
If the next generation is to use AI and big data effectively, we need to prepare them now. That will mean some adjustments in elementary education and some major...Harvard Business Review 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
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
James Miller, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, is exploring new ways to open the Spencer Museum...niversity of Kansas 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.
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Exploding interest in computer science courses across the United States has coincided with an undesirable side effect: a spate of high-tech collegiate plagiarism...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 30, 2017
Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg returned to the university Thursday to give graduates a commencement address, filled with calls for building a connected world "where...NPR From ACM Careers | May 26, 2017