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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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Twitter's gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors. They might have anticipated trouble more than a year ago had they noticed one key indicator.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...Nature From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 2, 2016
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...Nature From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...MIT News From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
The Chinese government's push to put science and technology at the forefront of the nation's development is creating new breed of highly-paid scientific academics...South China Morning Post From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
Stereotypes are a powerful force driving girls away from STEM fields. Even though stereotypes are often inaccurate, children absorb them at an early age and are...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | April 26, 2016
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.Slate From ACM Opinion | April 25, 2016
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 25, 2016
NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | April 22, 2016
When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter landed in Iraq for a surprise visit this week, he came armed with this news: More than 200 additional U.S. troops are headed...NPR From ACM News | April 21, 2016
Last fall, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington, launched a challenge to Google Scholar, PubMed, and other online search engines... From ACM News | April 20, 2016
Brett Weber, drafted by the Yankees in the 14th round in 1998, never rose above Class A in the minor leagues. Now he watches their home games from a windowless...The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 20, 2016
U.S. lawmakers Tuesday once again brought Apple, the FBI, security experts and law enforcement officials to testify on the ongoing debate over encryption and the...NPR From ACM Careers | April 20, 2016
Communism, which lasted in Romania for 43 years until 1989, is hardly a time worth longing for, with its food shortages, political prisoners, and secret police....Motherboard From ACM Careers | April 19, 2016
As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today.NPR From ACM Careers | April 18, 2016
In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 18, 2016
Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places—and much sooner than you might think.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | April 18, 2016