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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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With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...Science Magazine From ACM News | February 10, 2014
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...Politico From ACM News | February 7, 2014
Since the beginning of this century, the most rapidly advancing field in the life sciences, and perhaps in human inquiry of any sort, has been genomics.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2014
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons... From ACM Careers | February 6, 2014
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | February 5, 2014
Materials scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have announced a technique for growing tiny "hairy" materials that assemble themselves at the microscale...Argonne National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 4, 2014
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...Astrobiology Magazine From ACM News | February 3, 2014
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...Technology Review From ACM News | January 31, 2014
Even as the world's carriers build out the latest wireless infrastructure, known as 4G LTE, a new apparatus bristling with 96 antennas taking shape at a Rice University...Technology Review From ACM News | January 28, 2014
If the Army is going to keep up with military readiness pressures while also seeing a reduction in troop size and stagnant budgets, then it’s going to need more...Wired From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
By gaining a better understanding of how and why chemical dopants alter the behavior of a parent material, scientists believe they can design superconductors that... From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
For all its success, Google's famous Page Rank algorithm has never understood a word of the billions of Web pages it has directed people to over the years.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2014
Microsoft researchers have enabled elevators in a company building to detect the likelihood that a person walking by will want to board it.The Washington Post From ACM News | January 24, 2014
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 22, 2014