ACM Minigraphs
ACM Minigraphs are documents with a focused objective and accessible presentation style that provide early career practitioners an overview of an important area of computing, with the appropriate level of information to help enable a career choice in that area.
The Minigraphs Editorial Board (EB) oversees the editorial management of Minigraphs. Members of the EB are experts one or more computing domains who also have some experience publishing technical documents. EB responsibilies include the selection of topics and author, guiding the minigraph publication process with authors and reviewers, and ensuring the style and quality of minigraphs. The current member of the Minigraphs EB are:
- R Ramanujam (Editor-in-Chief)
- Lipika Dey
- Tulika Mitra
- Tan Moorthy
- Shyamala Prayaga
- Yogesh Simmhan
- Titus Winters
Minigraph on Sustainable Computing
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by computing and communication advances, promises greater productivity, efficiency, and quality of life. However, it also exacerbates the digital divide, unfairness, security/privacy risks, and environmental unsustainability due to power-hungry, carbon-intensive data centers and cloud workloads that dominate the ICT sector. With a global push for net-zero emissions by 2050, sustainable computing aims for zero environmental impact through optimized technologies and practices. This Minigraph explores key facets, interdependencies, and holistic solutions to make ICT, especially cloud computing, carbon-neutral or negative while supporting broader economic and sustainability goals.
Codecademy: Software Design Principles and Patterns with AI
Software design principles are the foundation for building maintainable, scalable code, and pairing them with AI coding agents transforms how developers translate those principles into working systems across the full stack. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, implement, and refactor full-stack applications with disciplined architectural thinking and collaborate effectively with AI to validate your design decisions.
This Aspire Journey includes interactive content from Codecademy.
