|
|
 |
| Welcome to the ACM Learning Center Bulletin |
|
Welcome to the December 2016 ACM Learning Center Bulletin, keeping you current on the many online learning tools ACM offers to help extend our members' skills and knowledge. To suggest addition of books, courses, future Webinar speakers and topics, or just offer feedback, leave a note in the Learning Center Suggestion Box
|
|
|
|
| IN THE SPOTLIGHT
|
|
Available on Demand: "Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More"
 If you missed it live, check out "Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More", presented live on Thursday, December 8 at 12 pm ET by Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google Inc. and an ACM Fellow. Rosemary Paradis, Principal Research Engineer at Leidos Health and Life Sciences, and SIGAI Treasurer, moderated this session. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
|
|
Available on Demand: "TensorFlow: A Framework for Scalable Machine Learning" with Martin Wicke
 If you missed it live, check out "TensorFlow: A Framework for Scalable Machine Learning", presented live on Wednesday, October 19 at 12 pm ET by Martin Wicke, Software Engineer at Google. Martin introduced TensorFlow, a framework for scalable machine learning. Since its launch in 2015, TensorFlow has become a popular open-source project. In this tutorial, Martin starts from TensorFlow basics such as how to build and run Graphs, how to work with Sessions, Variables and Ops. He then shows how to perform large-scale training using queues and distribute training on several devices or computers. Rajat Monga, Engineering Director at Google, moderates the Q&A session. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
|
|
Available on Demand: "Generators: Powering Iteration in Python" with Luciano Ramalho
 If you missed it live, check out "Generators: Powering Iteration in Python", presented live on Tuesday, September 27 at 12 pm ET by Luciano Ramalho, Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks and the author of Fluent Python (O�Reilly, 2015; available to ACM members in the ACM Learning Center). Ramalho was a web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and has worked on some of the largest news portals in Brazil using Python since 1998. He has spoken multiple times at OSCON, PyCon, PythonBrasil, FISL, and RuPy. Ramalho is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil. He is a member of ACM as well as SIGCSE (the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education). Alexey Boas, Head of Technology at ThoughtWorks Brazil, moderates the Q&A session. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
|
|
Available on Demand: "Embracing Open Data Science in Your Organization" with Christine Doig
 If you missed it live, check out "Embracing Open Data Science in Your Organization", presented live on Wednesday, September 7 at 12 pm ET by Christine Doig, Senior Data Scientist at Continuum Analytics. At Continuum, Christine has worked, among other projects, on MEMEX, a DARPA-funded project helping stop human trafficking. She is a regular speaker and trainer at community conferences including PyCon, EuroPython, PyData, OSCON and Data Science Summit. In this tutorial-style talk, Christine will present the Anaconda platform and its foundational open source packages: Conda for package and environment management, Bokeh for interactive data visualization, Dask for parallel computing, Numba for high performance Python, and Datashader for large scale visualizations. Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform, is built on open source technology to fulfill the enterprise needs of Data Scientists and their colleagues, including Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps and Data Engineers. A Q&A session follows the talk. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
|
|
| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
|
Featured Skillsoft Course: C++ Classes and Object-oriented Programming
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is C++ Classes and Object-oriented Programming. C++ is a general purpose, object-oriented programming language with the C language as its core. In this course, you'll explore the basics of creating custom classes and object-oriented programming in C++. It is one in a series of courses that prepares learners for the C++ Institute Certified Associate Programmer certification.
To access this and more than 1,300 Skillsoft Learning Collections courses, visit the ACM Learning Center, log in with your member credentials, and click on Skillsoft Learning in the top right corner. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page. For more on the features in Skillport 8, see our Skillsoft FAQ/Support page.
|
|
New Skillsoft Books: December 2016
 New books covering the latest IT skills and technologies are always being added to the ACM Skillsoft Learning Collections. Here are some of the notable titles recently added to our library:
- An Introduction to Machine Learning
- App Development Recipes for iOS and watchOS
- Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Economics and Business
- Beacon Technologies: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Beacosystem
- Beginning SQL Server Reporting Services
- CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Practice Exams, Third Edition
- Coding for Penetration Testers: Building Better Tools, Second Edition
- CSS3 Pocket Primer
- Cyber Guerilla
- Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Fourth Edition
- Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining, Second Edition
- Harley Hahn's Emacs Field Guide
- Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things
- Introducing SEO: Your Quick-Start Guide to Effective SEO Practices
- Learn to Program with Python
- Learning Groovy
- PHP Development Tool Essentials
- Practical Hive: A Guide to Hadoop's Data Warehouse System
- Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks
- The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy
- Understanding Network Hacks: Attack and Defense with Python
- Web Services using OpenStack
To access this and more than 3,000 Skillsoft Learning Collections eBooks, visit the ACM Learning Center, log in with your member credentials, and click on Skillsoft Learning in the top right corner. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page.
|
|
New Skillsoft Short Videos: December 2016
Did you know that ACM members have access to thousands of IT and productivity videos from Skillsoft? Covering a variety of today's hottest topics, these videos offer "on-the-job" support and "just-in-time" solutions for busy practitioners. Check out a couple of demo videos on Python and AngularJS.
Recently, Skillsoft added significant video content in the following knowledge areas:
- A+ Essentials
- AngularJS 2.0
- COBIT 5
- Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
- Eclipse
- Essentials of Blockchain: A Brief History of Cryptography
- iOS Application Development: Working with Intents UI
- IPv6
- Java EE 7 Back-end Server Development: CDI Events and Stereotypes
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Python for Data Science
- React and Flux: Browserify Overview
- SAS Programming Essentials
- TOGAF 9.1 Advance
- Transact-SQL
- Windows Server 2016 - Identity
See http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
|
|
Featured Safari Title: Learning Spark
Learning Spark introduces an open source cluster computing system that makes data analytics fast to run and fast to write. You'll learn how to run programs faster, using primitives for in-memory cluster computing. With Spark, your job can load data into memory and query it repeatedly much quicker than with disk-based systems like Hadoop MapReduce. You'll learn how to express MapReduce jobs with just a few simple lines of Spark code, instead of spending extra time and effort working with Hadoop's raw Java API.
This is just one of 700 award-winning, best-selling technical books, full-length video courses, and O'Reilly Conference videos from Safari Books Online in ACM's eBook collection, by leading publishers such as O'Reilly Media, Manning and many more. All members (Student and Professional) can access them through the ACM Learning Center eBook catalog as well as the ACM Digital Library.
|
|
Featured MK Title: Mastering Cloud Computing
Mastering Cloud Computing is designed for undergraduate students learning to develop cloud computing applications. Tomorrow's applications won't live on a single computer but will be deployed from and reside on a virtual server, accessible anywhere, any time. Tomorrow's application developers need to understand the requirements of building apps for these virtual systems, including concurrent programming, high-performance computing, and data-intensive systems.
This is just one of nearly 500 titles from publishers Morgan Kaufmann (MK) and Syngress in ACM's eBook collection, covering the most bleeding-edge topics in computing, such as Big Data, Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, and more. The books are available in PDF (and some in ePub) and are downloadable to your desktop, laptop, tablet, and any popular eBook reader on your mobile device. All members (Student and Professional) can access them through the ACM Learning Center eBook catalog as well as the ACM Digital Library.
|
|
ACM Interview: Jean Gehring
 Tune in as the leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs advancing computing as a science and a profession discuss their background, experience, and career highlights, all while providing invaluable insights and lessons learned for future computing professionals in this ongoing series of exclusive interviews conducted by Stephen Ibaraki, Chair of the ACM Professional Development Committee.
In a recent ACM Podcast Stephen Ibaraki interviewed Jean Gehring. A recognized technology leader and President of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO), Jean is known as a coalition builder and proven leader in identifying and implementing innovative technology solutions. A Senior Director at Smart 360, she oversees the company's global product stream. Her 25-year career in technology incorporates both board experience and leading enterprise architecture, governance, application and IT portfolio management organizations. During this time there, she led teams responsible for architecture, software product development, web technologies and IT operations. The capsule summary of her role is to develop and provide technology tools and services for Enterprise Architecture to better manage the technology used to power corporate and supply chain solutions.
| |
| NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS |
|
Volunteer Your Computing Skills for a Social Good with ACM and SocialCoder
You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM's new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.
|
|
|
You are subscribed with: &EMAIL;
Unsubscribe
|
Connect with us:
|
|
|
|
|
