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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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Testing is underway on NASA's next mission on the journey to Mars, a stationary lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 29, 2015
MIT researchers have trained a robotic cheetah to see and jump over hurdles while maintaining an average running speed of 5 miles per hour. From ACM Careers | May 29, 2015
Raptor, a turbulent combustion code developed at Sandia National Laboratories, was selected as a partnership project for the CAAR program focused on optimizing... From ACM Careers | May 28, 2015
A new study predicts that researchers could use spiraling pulses of laser light to change the nature of graphene, paving the way for experiments on new states...SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory From ACM Careers | May 28, 2015
A group of employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's business school is experimenting with policies that could usher in a new era of flexible work...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 27, 2015
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 26, 2015
Technology developed at Ohio State University captures wasted cell phone energy and feeds it back to battery to extend battery life by 30 percent on a single charge...Ohio State University From ACM Careers | May 26, 2015
Columbia Engineering researchers have created a single-molecule diode, a long-term miniaturization goal for electronic devices.Columbia Engineering From ACM Careers | May 26, 2015
As Russ Tedrake flings up the garage door to the dusty MIT lab, light whooshes in, revealing a 360-pound humanoid robot hanging from a rope.Wired From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
Even the most creative jobs have parts that are pretty routine—tasks that, at least in theory, can be done by a machine. Take, for example, being a reporter.NPR From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2015
In Silicon Valley, most pioneers pursue big ideas and giant personal fortunes with equal zeal. Then there’s Mozilla, an innovation dynamo that refuses to get rich...Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
Graphene could move out of the lab and into commercial products with the help of a new scalable, cost-effective role-to-role manufacturing process.MIT News From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
Tiny batteries made in nanopores manage ions and electrons for high power and extended life.U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science From ACM Careers | May 22, 2015
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...Wired From ACM Careers | May 21, 2015
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2015
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop guidelines for editing human genomes...Nature From ACM News | May 20, 2015
Cars can now drive by themselves. Automatic pilot systems can fly a jet airliner much of the time. Why is it so hard to make trains that can stop on their own?Newsweek From ACM News | May 19, 2015
From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2015