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| Welcome to the ACM Learning Center Bulletin |
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Welcome to the January 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
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| IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Register Now for the Feb 7 talk on Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
 Register for our next ACM Learning Webinar, "Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future," presented live on Tuesday, Feb 7 at 12 PM ET with Jack Dongarra, Professor at the University of Tennessee and Research Staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A Q&A will follow the talk, moderated by Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and SIGHPC Chair. 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: Panel on Ethics in A.I.
 If you missed it live, check out, "Panel and Town Hall: Big Thoughts and Big Questions about Ethics in Artificial Intelligence," presented live on Wednesday, Jan 25 at 12 PM ET. The panelists include 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/.
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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/.
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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/.
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| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
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Featured Skillsoft Course: Base SAS 9 Programming: Introduction to Data Sets
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is Base SAS 9 Programming: Introduction to Data Sets. SAS data sets are collections of data that SAS creates and can process, and understanding their structure and utility is key to grasping the power of Base SAS. This course covers the basics of data sets, and how to create them from various sources. This course is one of a series that prepares you for the SAS certification exam, SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9.
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.
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New Skillsoft Books: January 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:
- Advanced Persistent Security: A Cyberwarfare Approach to Implementing Adaptive Enterprise Protection, Detection, and Reaction Strategies
- Ansible: From Beginner to Pro
- Arduino Project Handbook:�25 Practical Projects to Get You Started
- Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition
- Big Crisis Data: Social Media in Disasters and Time-Critical Situations
- Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security
- Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi : The Practical Guide for Constructing a Voice-Controlled Virtual Assistant
- CBAP Certification and BABOK Study Guide
- CCSP Certified Cloud Security Professional All-in-One Exam Guide
- Cybersecurity for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities: A Guide to Detection and Prevention
- Develop Microsoft HoloLens Apps Now
- Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction Using Java, Second Edition
- Electronically Stored Information: The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval, Second Edition
- Expert Android Studio
- Game Audio Programming: Principles and Practices
- Game Hacking: Developing Autonomous Bots for Online Games
- Implementing Operations Management Suite: A Practical Guide to OMS, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Backup
- Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: A Practitioner's Reference
- Introducing Linux Distros
- Introduction to HPC with MPI for Data Science
- iPad For Dummies, 9th Edition
- iPhone for Dummies, 10th Edition
- Learn CakePHP: With Unit Testing, Second Edition
- Lumen Programming Guide: Writing PHP Microservices, REST and Web Service APIs
- Machine Learning: Algorithms and Applications
- Material Design Implementation with AngularJS: UI Component Framework
- McGraw-Hill Education ACP Agile Certified Practitioner Exam
- Nginx: From Beginner to Pro
- Numeric Computation and Statistical Data Analysis on the Java Platform
- Opportunities in 5G Networks: A Research and Development Perspective
- PMP Project Management Professional Exam
- Practical Forensic Imaging: Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools
- Practical Hadoop Ecosystem: A Definitive Guide to Hadoop-Related Frameworks and Tools
- Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation
- Pro Photo Colorizing with GIMP
- Pro SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
- Pro SQL Server on Microsoft Azure
- Python: An Introduction to Programming
- Scratch Programming Playground: Learn to Program by Making Cool Games
- Securing SQL Server: DBAs Defending the Database
- Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoTs): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations
- Teach Yourself VISUALLY macOS Sierra
- The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics
- The Complete Guide to Cybersecurity Risks and Controls
- The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation
- Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown
- Windows to Go: A Guide for Users and IT Professionals
- Working with Text: Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Text Mining
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: January 2017
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+ Practical
- AngularJS 2.0
- Apache Solr Essentials
- Application Performance Engineering
- CompTIA Project+ PK0-004
- Data Modeling for Hadoop
- Eclipse
- Essentials of Blockchain
- IBM WebSphere Commerce
- Introduction to Scala
- Java EE 7 Back-end Server Development
- jQuery Essentials
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Python for Data Science
- Python Fundamentals
- React and Flux
- Skype for Business 2015
- TOGAF 9.1 Advanced
- Transact-SQL
- Visual Studio 2017
- Windows Server 2016
See http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
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Featured Safari Title: Python Machine Learning
Leverage Python's most powerful open-source libraries for deep learning, data wrangling, and data visualization. Learn effective strategies and best practices to improve and optimize machine learning systems and algorithms. Ask and answer tough questions of your data with robust statistical models, built for a range of datasets. Pick up Python Machine Learning whether you want to get started from scratch or want to extend your data science knowledge, this is an essential and unmissable resource.
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.
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Featured MK Title: User Experience Management
User Experience Management speaks directly to the UX manager and to the unique challenges one may face. It outlines the robust framework for how to be an effective UX manager, from creating a team, to orchestrating product development, to ensuring UX is not compromised, to achieving company buy-in on results. This acts as a checklist readers can use to make sure they have covered the bases as they think about how to build their own user experience programs.
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.
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ACM Interview: Dr. Chaesub Lee
 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 Dr. Chaesub Lee. Chaesub is the Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, following his election at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, Republic of Korea. He took office on 1 January 2015. Dr. Lee has been involved in the telecommunication and ICT standardization field for 27 years, specializing in areas such as integrated services digital networks (ISDN), global information infrastructure (GII), Internet protocol, next-generation networks (NGN), Internet protocol television (IPTV) and cloud computing.
Dr. Lee started his professional life in 1986 as a researcher at Korea Telecom. After 17 years he took up a role at the country's Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), where he stayed for the next eight years. Most recently he worked at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and as a senior advisor to the Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP). Within ITU Dr. Lee served as Chairman of the ITU Next-Generation Networks (NGN) Focus Group to address the growing need for global standards for NGN, including service requirements, functional architecture and mobility, security, and Quality of Service (QoS). He was also Vice-Chairman of the ITU IPTV Focus Group which works to coordinate and promote the development of IPTV standards. He acted as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 "Future Networks and Cloud" from 2001 until 2008, becoming Chairman of that group in 2009. Study Group 13 works to develop standardization solutions for NGNs, future networks and cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile telecommunications, to ensure their smooth international deployment in the coming years.
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