From ACM Careers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 23, 2015
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 22, 2015
It couldn't get any more steampunk if it tried: a wooden robot hisses like an airbrake as a blast of compressed air shoves its arm sideways, sending a credit card...BBC News From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
When Facebook Inc. engineers needed security software to monitor the thousands of Apple Inc. Mac laptops, they couldn't find what they needed.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 21, 2015
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...Wired From ACM News | July 20, 2015
The giants of the Web have been pressing developers of mobile apps to index their content so it can be parsed by search engines or linked to from other sites.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | July 17, 2015
Before Max Krohn, the OkCupid co-founder, played online matchmaker, he had a far-less-romantic interest in cryptography. But he couldn't see a way to make a living...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 16, 2015
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...Recode From ACM Careers | July 15, 2015
For all the firsts coming out of the New Horizons mission—color footage of Pluto, photos of all five of its moons, and flowing datastreams about Pluto's composition...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | July 14, 2015
From astronomy to genomics, scientists are increasingly storing and studying their data sets on shared remote ‘cloud’ computing servers, accessed through the Internet...Nature From ACM Careers | July 13, 2015
In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2015
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | July 9, 2015
Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | July 9, 2015