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| Welcome to the ACM Learning Center Bulletin |
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Welcome to the April 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
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| IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Register for May 16 Webcast with Samy Al Bahra: "A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization"
 Register for our next ACM Learning Webinar, "A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization", presented live on Monday, May 16, at 12 pm ET by Samy Al Bahra, CTO, Backtrace I/O, Co-Organizer of the 2016 Applicative Conference, and member of the ACM Practitioners Board. The talk will cover challenges involved in achieving high performance multicore synchronization, beginning with fundamental scalability bottlenecks in multicore systems and memory models, and extending to advanced synchronization techniques involving scalable locking and lock-less synchronization. Samy will introduce topics including memory coherence and consistency, memory organization, scalable locking, biased asymmetric synchronization, non-blocking synchronization, and safe memory reclamation. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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Available on Demand: "YOGA - A Software Development Process Based On Ancient Principles"
 If you missed it live, "YOGA - A Software Development Process Based On Ancient Principles", presented by Seth Winis, Software Development Guru and YOGA Expert (at the encouragement of David Weiss, long time researcher in software engineering and IEEE Fellow), is now available on demand. Seth discusses YOGA, a software development process based on ancient principles and derived from many years of experience with software production and introspective research into and measurement of software production. ACM SIGSOFT Past Chair Will Tracz moderates the questions and answers session (see extended Q&A here). You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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Register Now for Applicative, ACM's Conference for Software Developers, June 1-2, 2016
 Applicative, a conference for software developers who want to build the technologies that will shape the future, will take place this year on June 1-2 at the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium at New York University. The conference includes two tracks, one on system level programming and another on application development, and it will feature speakers who work on developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies at leading technology companies, including Facebook, Google, Netflix, HootSuite, IBM, Intel, and Mozilla.
The systems software track will explore topics that enable systems-level practitioners to build better software for the modern world. This track's speakers will draw on their experience in design and implementation to demonstrate how novel technologies and low-level software can support some of today's most demanding workloads. In the application development track, speakers will discuss how they apply new technologies to the products they deliver, exploring topics such as reactive programming, microservices, single-page application frameworks, and other approaches focused on building more robust applications more quickly.
Click here to see a diverse cross-section of scheduled speakers including mobile app developers, infrastructure engineers, coding evangelists, efficiency experts, data wranglers, and more. Register now to lock in early bird rates, which are available through May 4.
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New Books and Videos Added to Safari Books Online Library
 Check out the latest book and video titles from Safari Books Online, recently added to the ACM Learning Center eBook collection. You'll find new and updated coverage of topics such Android Programming, AngularJS, Apache Spark, Big Data, CISSP, Docker, Data Science, Functional Programming, Go, Hadoop, Haskell, iOS 9 and Swift, Linux, Microservices, Machine Learning, Python, R Programming, and Spring.
For a list of all the books and videos being removed from and added to our eBook library visit http://learning.acm.org/safariswap.cfm. See our full collection of eBooks at http://learning.acm.org/books/ebooks_catalog.cfm.
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| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
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Featured Skillsoft Course: Microsoft PowerShell for Windows: Getting Started with PowerShell
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is Microsoft PowerShell for Windows: Getting Started with PowerShell. This course gets you started with Windows PowerShell, a powerful task automation and configuration management framework, and an administrator-friendly entry point to the .NET Framework. You will learn about the PowerShell environment and PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment. You'll also learn how to get help, when needed, through the extensible help system built into Windows PowerShell.
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 these changes and new features in Skillport 8, see our Skillsoft FAQ/Support page.
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New Skillsoft Books: April 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 added in March:
- Agile by Design: An Implementation Guide to Analytic Lifecycle Management
- AutoCAD 2016 3D Modeling
- Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
- The Car Hacker's Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
- Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
- The Definitive Guide to Oracle FDMEE
- Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems
- Expert F# 4.0
- Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js and MongoDB, Second Edition
- iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers
- Object-Oriented Programming with Smalltalk
- React Native for iOS Development
- Software Configuration Management Handbook, Third Edition
- Web Development with Go: Building Scalable Web Apps and RESTful Services
- Where Data Is Wealth: Profiting From Data Storage in a Digital Society
A more comprehensive list of recently added book titles is available at http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm (see sidebar). 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.
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New Skillsoft Short Videos: April 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 solutions for busy practitioners. Recently, Skillsoft added significant video content in the following knowledge areas:
- Apache Accumulo Fundamentals
- Apache Storm Introduction
- AWS Certified Developer
- Google Tag Manager
- Hadoop Operations
- iRise
- Microsoft Excel 2016
- Microsoft Office 2016
- Microsoft Project 2016
- Oracle Database 12c
- PHP Applications with the Zend Framework
- Predictive Analytics
- REST API
- RHCVA
- Titanium
- Universal Windows Platform
- Using Adobe Typekit
- Using Jasmine in Testing
- Vagrant Development Environments
- VMware Certified Cloud Professional
See http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
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Featured Elsevier Title: Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime provides the knowledge necessary to uncover and use digital evidence effectively in any kind of investigation. This completely updated edition provides the introductory materials that new students require, and also expands on the material presented in previous editions to help students develop these skills. The textbook teaches how computer networks function, how they can be involved in crimes, and how they can be used as a source of evidence. Additionally, this third edition includes updated chapters dedicated to networked Windows, Unix, and Macintosh computers, and Personal Digital Assistants. Provides a thorough explanation of how computers & networks function, how they can be involved in crimes, and how they can be used as evidence. Features coverage of the abuse of computer networks and privacy and security issues on computer networks.
This is just one of more than 460 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.
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ACM Interview: Peter Norvig
 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 Peter Norvig, Director of Director of Research at Google and Fellow of the ACM. Norvig shares his experiences from working at NASA, his interest in cutting-edge education research and tools as well as deep learning, and his thoughts on other giants of the A.I/Machine Learning space.
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