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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
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
Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors

In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing... Nature
From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable
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Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable

"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs... Ars Technica
From ACM Careers | November 3, 2015
The Room Where the Internet Was Born
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born

Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet. The Atlantic
From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
The Light-Beam Rider
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The Light-Beam Rider

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Relativity, the most beautiful theory in the history of science, and in its honor we should take... The New York Times
From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
Penn State Develops Technology to Create Robot-Written Textbooks
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Penn State Develops Technology to Create Robot-Written Textbooks

Penn State has developed a technology that works with faculty to automatically build complete textbooks from open resources on the Web according to topics and keywords... Pennsylvania State University
From ACM Careers | October 21, 2015
Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online

In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult... The New York Times
From ACM News | October 21, 2015
New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring
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New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring

Cornell social scientists found that women hold no hiring edge when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics... Cornell ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo... Capital Gazette
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says
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Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says

An assistant professor at Cornell University says her recent study was successfully replicated by the Federal Reserve because her code was available to other researchers... Cornell ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work

For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social... The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 16, 2015
Report: Federal Cybersecurity Education Programs Must Expand
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Report: Federal Cybersecurity Education Programs Must Expand

Federal cybersecurity education programs need to reach out to more institutions to fortify security in the future, according to a new National Academy of Public... EdTech Magazine
From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2015
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself

Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon. Wired
From ACM Careers | October 14, 2015
Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits
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Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits

At a demo day in San Francisco on Wednesday, Joyce Kim's presentation of her financial tech startup sounded a lot like a tech startup pitching venture capitalists... The Wall Street Journal
From ACM Careers | October 13, 2015
Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity
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Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity

 Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major for female students at Stanford University, a hopeful sign for those trying to build up the... Reuters
From ACM Careers | October 13, 2015
Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children
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Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children

How will Disney use technology to captivate the children of the future? The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 8, 2015
New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend

Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal
From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?
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Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?

"Want to see the bin Laden compound?" California Sunday Magazine
From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Enhancing Movement With Computational Models
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Enhancing Movement With Computational Models

MIT Ph.D. student David Hill maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices. MIT News
From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer. The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 6, 2015
Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students
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Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students

Morehouse College produced 12 of the 92 male African-American computer science Ph.D. students in the United States. Morehouse College
From ACM Careers | October 5, 2015
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