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Tech giants have dramatically ramped up charitable giving to university campuses over the past several years, giving them "soft…
The Washington Post| December 8, 2023
A growing collection of online tutorials, programming languages, and simulators are making it easier than ever to dip your toes into quantum computing.
Nature From ACM Careers | March 3, 2021
The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge asked scientists to find and re-execute old code written for computationally driven papers published ten or more years ago...Nature From ACM Careers | August 26, 2020
The Russian government will spend around 50 billion roubles (US$790 million) over the next five years on basic and applied quantum research at leading Russian laboratories...Nature From ACM Careers | January 9, 2020
Planetary scientists are angry about NASA's decision to jettison a key instrument from its upcoming mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.
Nature From ACM Careers | March 20, 2019
When they think about big data, most researchers probably imagine genomics, neuroscience or particle physics. Kelly Robinson's data challenge involves plankton....Nature From ACM Careers | September 26, 2018
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...Nature From ACM News | August 23, 2018
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2018
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 13, 2018
From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 25, 2018
Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 17, 2018
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...Nature From ACM Careers | May 14, 2018