In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Henrique Malvar, a signal processing researcher at Microsoft Research (Emeritus). He spent more than 25 years at Microsoft as a distinguished engineer and chief scientist, leading the Redmond, Washington lab (managing more than 350 researchers). At Microsoft, he contributed to the development of audio coding and digital rights management for the Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, and to image compression technologies, such as HD Photo/JPEG XR formats and the RemoteFX bitmap compression, as well as to a variety of tools for signal analysis and synthesis. Henrique is also an Affiliate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Washington and a member of the National Academy of Engineers. He has published over 180 articles, has been issued over 120 patents, and has been the recipient for countless awards for his service.

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.

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 delves into the critical components of DevEx, such as documentation, tooling, API design, developer support, performance, and reliability, providing actionable insights and strategies to help organizations create development environments that foster productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction among developers.

In this course, you’ll gain the ability to build and interpret decision tree models for classification and regression tasks. First, you’ll explore the basic structure and components of decision trees, understanding how they make predictions using recursive partitioning. Next, you’ll discover key tree-splitting criteria such as information gain and Gini impurity, learning how these impact decision-making in models. Finally, you’ll learn how to implement decision tree models using Scikit-learn in Python, visualize their structure, and evaluate performance using metrics like accuracy and RMSE.

In this Challenge Lab, you will make PowerShell scripts easy for new users to use. First, you will build a simple menu prompt. Next, you will add a loop to the menu, and finally you will dynamically build menu content.

This path takes you through all the skills you’ll need to make sure your applications and clusters are safe and secure. After all, what good are containers if they’re vulnerable to attack? Additionally, these courses cover the topics presented as part of the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist certification created by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. These courses will help you prepare for certification.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Dynamic Neural Network Compression for Scalable AI Deployment," presented by Aditya Challapally, Applied Science Lead at Microsoft. Chris Pease, Researcher at the MIT Media Lab, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "What's Differrent about LLM Apps," presented by Mayo Oshin, an AI engineer and early pioneer of LangChain, and Nuno Campos, Software Engineer at LangChain. Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft and Vice-Chair of the ACM Practitioner Board, moderated the questions and answers session following the the talk.  Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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