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Ricardo Baeza-Yates areas of expertise are information retrieval, web search and data mining, data science and algorithms. He is currently a Professor at Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus, since August 2017. He is also CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company based in California since June 2016. Before that he founded and led from 2006 to 2015 the Yahoo labs in Barcelona and Santiago de Chile. His lectures include "Bias and the Web," "Big Data or Right Data? Opportunities and Challenges," "Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task," "Information Retrieval," and more.

The ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.

Susanne Bødker is a Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark). Her research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work, and participatory design, and she is credited with introducing activity theory to human-computer interaction. Bødker was an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) from 2004-2018. In her interview, she discusses activity theory and its origins, her Common Interactive Objects project, the importance of participatory design, and more.

Since retiring from the National Science Foundation in 2011, Carl E. Landwehr has served in many positions, most recently as Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and lead research scientist at the Cyber Security and Privacy Research Institute, George Washington University. In his interview, he discusses developments in computer security during his career, trustworthy computing, teaching undergraduates to make good decisions in cybersecurity and public policy, and more.

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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.

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