In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts 2024 ACM Athena Lecturer and ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award recipient Maja Matarić, the Chan Soon-Shiong Chaired and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California (USC), and a Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Maja is a roboticist and AI researcher known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, a field she pioneered. She is the founding director of the USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center and co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab. Maja is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), IEEE, AAAI, and ACM. She received the US Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from President Obama in 2011. She also received the Okawa Foundation, NSF Career, the MIT TR35 Innovation, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career, and the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Innovation Awards, among others, and is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. She is featured in the documentary movie Me & Isaac Newton.

Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk," Functional Programming in Financial Markets," presented on Wednesday, August 20 at 11:00 AM ET/15:00 UTC by José Pedro Magalhães, Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank. Jeremy Gibbons, Professor of Computing at Oxford University, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

We have added dozens of new and updated Pluralsight learning paths, with hundreds of new courses added. These significant new additions to the custom ACM Pluralsight course library extend coverage of today’s most in-demand skills, technologies, and vendor certifications, including coverage of .NET and Blazor, Angular, AWS and Azure cloud, C#, Data Engineering, DevOps and ITOps, Generative AI and Machine Learning, Java and the Spring Framework, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, React, and Rust.

This book reviews present state-of-the-art research related to the security of cloud computing including developments in conversational AI applications. It is particularly suited for those that bridge the academic world and industry, allowing readers to understand the security concerns in advanced security solutions for conversational AI in the cloud platform domain by reviewing present and evolving security solutions, their limitations, and future research directions.

In this course, you’ll gain the ability to design and implement scalable ETL workflows using PySpark. First, you’ll explore how to extract data from multiple sources, including structured and unstructured formats such as CSV, JSON, and Parquet. Next, you’ll discover how to transform and clean data using PySpark’s powerful DataFrame operations, including filtering, aggregations, and handling missing values. Finally, you’ll learn how to efficiently load processed data into various destinations, optimizing performance with partitioning, bucketing, and incremental updates.

In this lab, you will practice how to design a comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategy using the Generative AI tool. A strong diversity and inclusion strategy is essential for creating a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute. This lab will guide you through the process of developing policies, training programs, and metrics that promote diversity and inclusion across the organization.

This hands-on path equips participants with advanced skills in network and system monitoring, threat detection, and analysis. By integrating insights from logs and threat intelligence, participants will enhance their ability to detect, document, and escalate incidents effectively, strengthening organizational security.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "An Elementary Approach to Quantum Computing," presented by Charlee Stefanski, Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, and Constantin Gonciulea, the leader of the Advanced Technology group at Wells Fargo. Alex Khan, Visiting Fellow at the University of Maryland National Quantum Laboratory, moderated the questions and answers session following the the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design," presented by Felienne Hermans, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Mark Guzdial, Professor and Director for the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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