Meet Jelani Nelson
Jelani Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Scientist at Google. He is a member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory’s Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science. He has also served on the Program Committees for the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2021), and ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2020). Among his honors, Nelson received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Discover the Latest "Selects," Shortlists of Learning Resources Curated by Experts
ACM Selects are themed shortlists curated by subject matter experts for both serious and emerging computing professionals, with the goal of providing new ways to discover relevant resources, either through ACM or authenticated by ACM-affiliated specialists. The latest Selects cover People in Computing #7: Women in Hardware and Programming Languages and Spotlight on Computing in Bangladesh.
Meet Rute Sofia
Rute C. Sofia is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems in Munich, Germany. She is also an Invited Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias in Lisbon, Portugal, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Sofia is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE, and an N2Women Awards Co-chair. She was recently elected a Councilor of the ACM Europe Council.
Listen to ACM ByteCast!
ACM's Practitioner Board has created ACM ByteCast, a new podcast series in which hosts Rashmi Mohan, Jessica Bell, and Scott Hanselman interview researchers, practitioners, and innovators who are at the intersection of computing research and practice. In each monthly episode, guests will share their experiences, the lessons they’ve learned, and their own visions for the future of computing.
Listen to the latest episode featuring Luiz Andre Barroso of Google, where he drove transformation of hyperscale computing infrastructure and led engineering for key products like Google Maps. Luiz is a Google Fellow and Head of the Office of Cross-Google Engineering (XGE), responsible for company-wide technical coordination. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Engineering in Google Maps and led the Core team, the group primarily responsible for the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. Prior to Google, Luiz was a member of the research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq, where his group did some of the pioneering work on multi-core architectures. He co-authored The Datacenter as a Computer, the first textbook to describe the architecture of warehouse-scale computing systems. Luiz is a Fellow of ACM and AAAS.
The Computing Research Association Seeks New Executive Director
The Computing Research Association (CRA) -- the premier member organization of academic departments, laboratories, and industry centers aimed at advancing computing research to change the world -- seeks an inclusive, transparent, and enterprising leader to serve as its next Executive Director. The next Executive Director has a unique opportunity to lead CRA to effect change that benefits both computing research and society at large. Learn more here.
Celebrating Technology Leaders, Episode 8: Machine Learning Careers: Looking Beyond the Hype
In this eighth episode of ACM-W’s webinar series, “Celebrating Technology Leaders,” host Bushra Anjum and a panel of successful ML professionals will help us to understand the gap between the popular (mis)understanding of ML potential and what the tools can actually deliver today. They will provide practical guidance and pointers for our future ML workforce. Register here for the webinar, which will take place Wednesday, October 20 at 3 pm EDT.
Introducing ACM Focus
ACM Focus is a new way to explore the breadth and variety of ACM content, and to stay current with the latest trends in your technical community. ACM Focus consists of a set of AI-curated custom feeds by subject, each serving up a focused set of the latest relevant ACM content that provides overall awareness of relevant ACM activities, people, talks and a variety of published works. Examples of topic categories include AI, Web, Applied Computing, Society, Graphics, and more. The feeds are built in an automated fashion and are refined as you interact with them. Explore ACM Focus today!
SIGDOC 2021, October 12 to 14 (hybrid)
The conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication will be hybrid this year, with virtual presentations and optional in-person meetup hubs across eight locations worldwide. The theme of SIGDOC 2021 is "Advocacy, Accountability, and Coalitions Across Contexts," which will be explored in the contexts of communication design, user experience practice, teaching and learning, and professional and technical communication.
SPLASH 2021, October 17 to 22, Chicago, Illinois (hybrid)
The ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. ACM Fellow Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research and University of Oxford) is the scheduled keynote speaker. Invited speakers are ACM Turing Award laureate Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research), Robert Rand (University of Chicago), Heidy Khlaaf (University College London), and Martin Abadi (Google).
ASSETS 2021, October 18 to 22 (online)
The ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. The five-day virtual format allows for the addition of more online events for socializing, as well as special events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SIGACCESS. Keynoting will be Axel Leblois (G3ict) and Annalu Waller (University of Dundee).
Human Detection of Machine-Manipulated Media
Read "Human Detection of Machine-Manipulated Media," by Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Nick Obradovich, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan, a contributed article in the October 2021 issue of Communications of the ACM.
Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
As privacy violations have become rampant and calls for better measures to protect sensitive, personally identifiable information have primarily resulted in bureaucratic policies satisfying almost no one, differential privacy is emerging as a potential solution. In “Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default,” a Case Study in ACM Queue, Google’s Damien Desfontaines and Miguel Guevara reflect with Jim Waldo and Terry Coatta on the engineering challenges that lie ahead for differential privacy, as well as what remains to be done to achieve their ultimate goal of providing privacy protection by default.
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Bringing You the World’s Computing Literature
The most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering computing and information technology includes the complete collection of ACM's publications.
Lifelong Learning
ACM offers lifelong learning resources including online books from O'Reilly, online courses from Skillsoft, TechTalks on the hottest topics in computing and IT, and more.
ACM Updates Code of Ethics
ACM recently updated its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The revised Code of Ethics addresses the significant advances in computing technology since the 1992 version, as well as the growing pervasiveness of computing in all aspects of society. To promote the Code throughout the computing community, ACM created a booklet, which includes the Code, case studies that illustrate how the Code can be applied to situations that arise in everyday practice and suggestions on how the Code can be used in educational settings and in companies and organizations. Download a PDF of the ACM Code booklet.