Meet Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests include blockchain, big data analytics, cybersecurity and digital forensics. His awards include the 2019 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing and being named a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. Choo is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the new ACM journal Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT).
ACM TPC Announces TechBriefs, New Series Covering Pressing Issues
TechBriefs is a series of short technical bulletins by ACM’s Technology Policy Council that present scientifically-grounded perspectives on the impact of specific developments or applications of technology. Designed to complement ACM’s activities in the policy arena, the primary goal is to inform rather than advocate for specific policies. The first TechBrief is on climate change, focusing on the issue that computing can help mitigate it but must first cease contributing to it.
Meet Trilce Estrada
Trilce Estrada is an Associate Professor and Director of the Data Science Laboratory at the University of New Mexico. Her overarching research goal is to solve computationally-intensive and data-intensive problems in science, health, and education, especially in scenarios where resources and trained professionals are scarce. She received the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing award for her innovative and transformative deployment of machine learning for knowledge discovery in molecular dynamic simulations and in situ analytics.
Panel on the Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology, Nov. 15
ACM's US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC) will host a HotTopics webinar session, "Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: the Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology," on Nov. 15, 2021. Don't miss this timely, deep dive discussion into the accuracy, security, and fundamental fairness to less-advantaged students of remote testing administration (RTA) systems, and what their future will or should be.
HLF 2021: Watch Recorded Sessions
The 2021 Heidelberg Laureate Forum introduced new virtual components, including the laureate debate and speed-networking. The timely Hot Topic was “Spread of Infectious Diseases.” As in past HLFs, many of the laureate lectures were delivered by ACM A.M. Turing Award and ACM Prize recipients, such as Vint Cerf and Daphne Koller. Workshops and panel discussions rounded out the program, which took place September 20 to 23. Video material from most of the sessions is now available on the HLF YouTube channel.
ACM-W's Webinar Series Celebrates Women in Computing
By highlighting successful technical women who are leading diverse careers in the technology industry, ACM-W’s webinar series, “Celebrating Technology Leaders,” aims to inform students and early-career professionals about the multitude of career options open to them. Episodes have featured tech returnships, tech entrepreneurship, UI/UX, data science, robotics, and cybersecurity. Visit https://women.acm.org/celebrating-technology-leaders/ to view on-demand.
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!
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 Jelani Nelson, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Theory Group at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Scientist at Google. His areas of interest include the theory of computation, as well as the design and analysis of algorithms, especially for massive datasets. Jelani is a member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT)’s Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science (CATCS). Among his honors, he won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.
SC21, November 14 to 19, St. Louis, Missouri (hybrid)
At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, invited talks will show how translational research and technologies and their applications address some of the most complex challenges of our time, in addition to panels, workshops and more. ACM Turing Award laureate Vint Cerf will deliver the keynote.
CCS 2021, November 15 to 19 (online)
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security brings together information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results. Workshops will cover Privacy in the Electronic Society, Cloud Computing Security, and more. Keynotes will be delivered by Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Dawn Song (University of California, Berkeley) and Taesoo Kim (Georgia Tech).
AI for Good Global Summit 2021 (online), continuous digital event
The 2021 edition of the AI for Good Global Summit is a continuous digital event, featuring weekly programming across multiple formats, platforms and time zones, including keynotes, expert webinars, project pitches, Q&As, performances, demos, interviews, networking and more. Upcoming highlights include presentations on AI and climate science, health, and data, and a keynote on "The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act: How will it impact your life and business?"
There Is No AI Without Data
Read "There Is No AI Without Data," by Christoph Gröger, a contributed article in the November 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.