Welcome to the February 2017 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

TOP STORIES

•  Register for March 17 Webinar: "Speaking Data: Simple, Functional Programming with Clojure" with Paul deGrandis

•  Available on Demand: "Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future" with Jack Dongarra

•  Available on Demand: "Panel and Townhall: Ethics in A.I."

•  Available on Demand: "Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More"

LEARNING CENTER: Books, Courses, Videos

•  Featured Skillsoft Course: Core Services on AWS

•  New Skillsoft Books: February 2017

•  Featured Safari Title: Doing Data Science

•  Featured MK Title: Parallel Computer Architecture

•  ACM Interview: Judy Wajcman

NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

•  Volunteer Your Computing Skills for a Social Good with ACM and SocialCoder

Register Now: "Speaking Data: Simple, Functional Programming with Clojure"
Register now for the next upcoming webinar "Speaking Data: Simple, Functional Programming with Clojure", presented live on Friday, March 17 at 12 PM ET by Paul deGrandis, Lead Developer, Architect, and Director of the Research and Innovation Group at Cognitect. A Q&A will follow the event. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.

Available on Demand: "Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future"
If you missed it live, check out "Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future", presented live by ACM Fellow Jack Dongarra, Professor at the University of Tennessee. John West, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Texas Advanced Computing Center; SIGHPC Vice-Chair, 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: "Panel and Town Hall: Ethics in A.I."
If you missed it live, check out "Panel and Town Hall: Ethics in A.I.", presented live by panelists Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor at the University of Bath; Francesca Rossi, Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Professor at the University of Padova; Stuart Russell, Professor at UC Berkeley and Adjunct Professor at UC San Francisco; and Michael Wooldridge, Professor at the University of Oxford. Moderating the discussion will be Nicholas Mattei, Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory and Rosemary Paradis, Principal Research Engineer at Leidos Health and Life Sciences. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.

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 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/.

Featured Skillsoft Course: Core Services on AWS
This month's featured Skillsoft course is Core Services on AWS. AWS provides multiple services that address all needs of an online application. It offers a comprehensive platform from which to provide web applications with high availability. In this course you will learn about services and features to enable you to host your service with confidence.

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: February 2017
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:

• A Practical Approach to Cloud IaaS with IBM SoftLayer: Presentations Guide
• Analyst Perspectives Weekly Scans: Client Edition - December 2016
• Android Tablets for Dummies, 4th Edition
• Apache HBase Primer
• AWS for Admins for Dummies
• Beginning Hibernate: For Hibernate 5, Fourth Edition
• Beginning SQL Server R Services: Analytics for Data Scientists
• Beyond jQuery
• Building a SharePoint 2016 Home Lab: A How-To Reference on Simulating a Realistic SharePoint Testing Environment
• Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting, Second Edition
• C Programming in Easy Steps, Fourth Edition
• Creating Maintainable APIs: A Practical, Case-Study Approach
• Database Systems: A Pragmatic Approach, Second Edition
• Disk-Based Algorithms for Big Data
• Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Second Edition
• Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition, Volumes I - X
• Essentials of Cloud Application Development on IBM Bluemix: Presentations Guide
• EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): An Implementation and Compliance Guide
• Expert Oracle Indexing and Access Paths: Maximum Performance for Your Database, Second Edition
• External Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions on IBM DB2 for i
• Handbook on Session Initiation Protocol: Networked Multimedia Communications for IP Telephony
• Hybrid Cloud Event Integration: Integrate Your Enterprise and Cloud with Bluemix Integration Services
• IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.1 Introduction and Configuration: Including IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
• Image Processing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Volume I - III
• Implementing CDISC Using SAS: An End-to-End Guide, Second Edition
• Insider Threat: A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within
• Introducing Materialize
• Java Programming for Android Developers for Dummies, 2nd Edition
• JavaScript in Easy Steps, Fifth Edition
• Machine Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Volume I - III
• MacOS Sierra for Dummies
• Mastering Oracle GoldenGate
• Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript
• MVVM in Delphi: Architecting and Building Model View ViewModel Applications
• OCEB 2 Certification Guide: Business Process Management - Fundamental Level, Second Edition
• Options and Derivatives Programming in C++: Algorithms and Programming Techniques for the Financial Industry
• Oracle Business Intelligence and Essbase Solutions Guide
• PHP and MySQL In Easy Steps
• Predictive Analytics for Dummies, 2nd Edition
• Pro ASP.NET Core MVC, Sixth Edition
• Professional Git
• Programming Excel with VBA: A Practical Real-World Guide
• Protecting Mobile Networks and Devices: Challenges and Solutions
• Pyramid Algorithms: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Curves and Surfaces for Geometric Modeling
• Python Forensics: A Workbench for Inventing and Sharing Digital Forensic Technology
• Python Recipes Handbook: A Problem-Solution Approach
• QuarkXPress for Dummies
• Reactive Java Programming
• Requirements Writing for System Engineering
• Securing PHP Apps
• Security and Auditing of Smart Devices: Managing Proliferation of Confidential Data on Corporate and BYOD Devices
• Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity
• Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach, Second Edition
• Temporal Data Mining via Unsupervised Ensemble Learning
• The Data Protection Officer: Profession, Rules, and Role
• VFX Fundamentals: Visual Special Effects Using Fusion 8.0
• Windows 10 All-in-One for Dummies, 2nd Edition
• Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting: A Best Practice Guide for Managing Users and PCs Through Group Policy
• Windows Installation and Update Troubleshooting
• Wireless Communications Security: Solutions for the Internet of Things

Featured Safari Title: Doing Data Science
Doing Data Science includes chapter-long lectures from data scientists at companies such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay. They share new algorithms, methods, and models by presenting case studies and the code they use. If you're familiar with linear algebra, probability, and statistics, and have programming experience, this book is an ideal introduction to data science. Topics include: statistical inference, exploratory data analysis, algorithms, spam filters, naive Bayes, and data wrangling.

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: Parallel Computer Architecture
Parallel Computer Architecture is the convergence of traditionally disparate approaches on a common machine structure. This book explains the forces behind this convergence of shared-memory, message-passing, data parallel, and data-driven computing architectures. It then examines the design issues that are critical to all parallel architecture across the full range of modern design, covering data access, communication performance, coordination of cooperative work, and correct implementation of useful semantics.

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: Judy Wajcman
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 Judy Wajcman. Judy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She has held posts in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Warwick and Zurich. She was President of the Society for the Social Studies of Science and is a recipient of the CITASA William F. Ogburn Career Achievement Award of the American Sociological Association. Her books include: The Politics of Working Life, TechnoFeminism, Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management, Feminism Confronts Technology and The Social Shaping of Technology. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Her latest book is Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

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.