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2026

11 March 2026 :

A Practical Introduction to Agentic Coding

11 February 2026 :

Make More Money at Work: How to Ask for a Raise at a New Job

13 January 2026 :

How to Extract Meaningful Insights from Data with Angelica Lo Duca

2025

3 December 2025 :

A Look at AI Security with Mark Russinovich

12 November 2025 :

Translating Interview Speak: What Your Interviewer Really Wants to Know with Barbara Limmer and Laura Browne

18 September 2025 :

Quantum Programming in Depth: Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Quantum Computing with Mariia Mykhailova

20 August 2025 :

Functional Programming in Financial Markets with José Pedro Magalhães

17 July 2025 :

An Elementary Approach to Quantum Computing with Charlee Stefanski and Constantin Gonciulea

26 June 2025 :

Programming for All A Feminist Case for Language Design with Felienne Hermans

29 May 2025 :

Dynamic Neural Network Compression for Scalable AI Deployment with Aditya Challapally

8 May 2025 :

Building Reliable AI Agents and LLM Apps Using LangChain and LangGraph with Mayo Oshin and Nuno Campos

17 April 2025 :

Empirical Software Design: When & Why with Kent Beck

27 March 2025 :

Applying Cinematic Techniques to Data Storytelling with Angelica Lo Duca

6 March 2025 :

The Death of Work: Leading Effective Engineering Teams with Sarah Drasner

12 February 2025 :

Unlock Hugging Face: Simplify AI with Transformers, LLMs, RAG, Fine Tuning with Wei-Meng Lee

23 January 2025 :

Testing the System: A Holistic Approach to Security in Systems Development with Scott Tilley

2024

12 December 2024 :

Research to Reality: Building Production Ready LLM Apps Users Can Trust with Rush Shahani

14 November 2024 :

Product Management in the AI Era with Christine Robson

30 October 2024 :

Developing Vascular Digital Twins to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Care with Amanda Randles

2 October 2024 :

Lessons Learned from Building GitHub Copilots with Eddie Aftandilian

12 September 2024 :

Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation with Abhinav Kimothi

20 August 2024 :

Software Product Management: From Opinions to Data Driven Experimentation with Jan Bosch

27 June 2024 :

From ML Engineering to AI Engineering with Chip Huyen

5 June 2024 :

Understanding the LLM Development Cycle: Building, Training, and Finetuning with Sebastian Raschka

8 May 2024 :

Design is Testability with Titus Winters

13 March 2024 :

Programming Distributed Systems with Mae Milano

13 February 2024 :

Fireside Chat with Entrepreneur/Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla

24 January 2024 :

The Impact of ML/AI on Networking and the Internet Over the Last Decade with JP Vasseur

2023

20 December 2023 :

Redefining Human AI Interaction in Programming with Sandeep Kaur Kuttal

5 December 2023 :

Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces with Maneesh Agrawala

2 November 2023 :

The Medium Term Future of Evolutionary Architecture with Rebecca Parsons

27 September 2023 :

Creating Local First Collaboration Software with Automerge with Martin Kleppmann

23 August 2023 :

Ethical and Responsible Large Language Models Challenges and Best Practices with Nicole Konigstein and Miquel Noguer i Alonso

27 July 2023 :

Reskilling to Build Diverse Tech Teams

21 June 2023 :

LLMs: A New Way to Teach Programming with Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter

31 May 2023 :

Correctness by Construction How Can We Build Better Software with Ina Schaefer

9 May 2023 :

Large Language Models and the End of Programming with Matt Welsh

20 April 2023 :

Individual Contributor to Software VP Four Career Transitions, Many Challenges with Steve McConnell

29 March 2023 :

Future of DevOps with Sasha Rosenbaum

7 March 2023 :

State of Data Mesh with Zhamak Dehghani

15 February 2023 :

Effective Developer Testing with Mauricio Aniche

25 January 2023 :

Reduce System Complexity with Data Oriented Programming with Yehonathan Sharvit

2022

7 December 2022 :

An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking with Raquel Urtasun

26 October 2022 :

Tradeoffs in the Software Workflow with Titus Winters

26 September 2022 :

The Evolution of Accessibility with Jenny Lay-Flurrie

27 July 2022 :

Seismic Shifts Challenges and Opportunities in the 'Post ISA' Era of Computer Systems Design with Margaret Martonosi

30 June 2022 :

Secure Computation in Practice with Raluca Ada Popa

8 June 2022 :

The Past, Present, and Future of Supply Chain Security with Dan Lorenc

11 May 2022 :

Lessons From the Fifty Year Quest to Turn Programmers into Software Engineers with Adam Barr

14 April 2022 :

Instant Memory Training for Tech Success - The ABCs and 123s for Developing a Powerful Memory with Chester Santos

16 March 2022 :

Deep Learning for Sequences in Quantitative Finance with David Kriegman

10 March 2022 :

Visual Data Analysis: Why? When? How? with Pat Hanrahan and Tamara Munzner

3 February 2022 :

Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters

11 January 2022 :

The Art of Concurrency in Go with Johnny Boursiquot

2021

1 December 2021 :

The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them) with Daniel Jackson

11 November 2021 :

Getting Started with Kubernetes with Nigel Poulton

26 October 2021 :

Machine Learning for Algorithm Design with Maria Florina Balcan

6 October 2021 :

Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence with Manish Gupta

9 September 2021 :

Quantum Computational Supremacy with Scott Aaronson

11 August 2021 :

Running Linux Apps on Windows: How and Why? with Scott Hanselman

22 July 2021 :

Turing Lecture 2021: Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers

12 July 2021 :

Learning from Data: The Two Cultures with Adji Bousso Dieng

7 June 2021 :

Learning Symbolic Equations with Deep Learning with Shirley Ho

20 May 2021 :

Horizontal Leadership: Practical Lessons for Driving Company-Wide Strategy and Action with Eve Andersson

13 April 2021 :

Democratizing AI: Creating Cognitive AI Assistants with No Coding with Michelle Zhou

25 March 2021 :

An Industry Perspective on What We Should Be Teaching Our Next Generation of Software Practitioners in the Universities with Paul McMahon

4 March 2021 :

The Four PEGS of Requirements Engineering with Bertrand Meyer

11 February 2021 :

Reproducing 150 Research Papers and Testing Them in the Real World: Challenges and Solutions with Grigori Fursin

19 January 2021 :

Agent-Human Collaboration and Learning for Improving Human Satisfaction with Sarit Kraus

12 January 2021 :

ACM Queue Case Study Q&A: Always-On Time-Series Database with Theo Schlossnagle

2020

9 December 2020 :

Code Reviews - From Bottleneck to Superpower with Michaela Greiler

2020

2 November 2020 :

It's Time Deep Learning Learned from Software Engineering with Jeremy Howard

14 October 2020 :

Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience with Moshe Vardi

22 September 2020 :

Performance (Really) Matters with Emery Berger

1 September 2020 :

Quantum Networks: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network System with Stephanie Wehner

11 August 2020 :

How to Create Generalizable AI with Anima Anandkumar

24 July 2020 :

Abuses and Misuses of AI: Prevention vs. Reaction with Cristian Canton

8 July 2020 :

Apache Arrow and the Future of Data Frames with Wes McKinney

8 June 2020 :

Leveraging the ACM Code of Ethics Against Ethical Snake Oil and Dodgy Development with Don Gotterbarn and Marty Wolf

22 May 2020 :

Integrating AWS Lambda with Your Majestic Monolith with Luke Closs

30 April 2020 :

Data for Good: Ensuring the Responsible Use of Data to Benefit Society with Jeannette Wing

25 March 2020 :

The Decision-Making Side of Machine Learning: Computational, Inferential, and Economic Perspectives with Michael I. Jordan

26 February 2020 :

Fairness in Machine Learning with Tulsee Doshi

5 February 2020 :

OOPS! Learning From Surprise at Netflix with Lorin Hochstein

7 January 2020 :

Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership with Steve McConnell

2019

16 December 2019 :

PyTorch: A Modern Library for Machine Learning with Adam Paszke

1 November 2019 :

Rust: In It for the Long Haul with Carol Nichols

8 October 2019 :

Recommender Systems: Beyond Machine Learning with Joseph Konstan

29 August 2019 :

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture with Dave Patterson

1 August 2019 :

The Emerging Role of Mobile Computing in Health with Shwetak Patel

11 July 2019 :

The Power and Limits of Deep Learning with Yann LeCun

20 June 2019 :

The Joy of Functional Programming (for Data Science) with Hadley Wickham

4 June 2019 :

Agile Data Science: Achieving Salesforce-Scale Machine Learning in Production with Sarah Aerni

30 April 2019 :

The Exascale Computing Project and the Future of HPC with Doug Kothe

3 April 2019 :

The Future of Wireless and What It Will Enable with Andrea Goldsmith

7 March 2019 :

Building a Culture to Support Inclusive Design with Jen Devins

13 February 2019 :

The Bayesian Zig Zag: Developing Probabilistic Models Using Grid Methods and MCMC with Allen Downey

23 January 2019 :

Designing an ML Minded Product and a Product Minded ML System with Grace Huang

2018

4 December 2018 :

Break Into AI: Building a Career in Machine Learning with Andrew Ng

15 November 2018 :

Concurrent Object Oriented Programming with Bertrand Meyer

26 September 2018 :

Explainable Machine Learning Models for Healthcare AI

7 September 2018 :

Project Jupyter: From Computational Notebooks to Large Scale Data Science with Sensitive Data with Brian Granger

8 August 2018 :

From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning with Blaise Agüera y Arcas

24 July 2018 :

Adversarial Machine Learning with Ian Goodfellow

12 July 2018 :

Scala Is for... Distributed Systems? Web Apps? Front-end Development? with Heather Miller

14 June 2018 :

Journey to a Real-Time Enterprise with Neha Narkhede

7 June 2018 :

Intro to Angular with Stephen Fluin

25 April 2018 :

History of Software Engineering with Grady Booch

28 March 2018 :

Is Blockchain a Branch of AI? with Toufi Saliba

9 March 2018 :

What Can Kotlin Do for Me? with Hadi Hariri

21 February 2018 :

Computing for Disasters with Robin Murphy

18 January 2018 :

Hierarchical Adversarially Learned Inference with Negar Rostamzadeh

9 January 2018 :

QISKit: A Swiss Army Knife for Quantum Computation with Jay Gambetta

2017

15 November 2017 :

Reactive Microsystems - The Evolution of Microservices at Scale with Jonas Boner

13 October 2017 :

Algorand: A Better Distributed Ledger with Silvio Micali

21 September 2017 :

ImageNet: Where Have We Gone? Where Are We Going? with Fei-Fei Li

7 September 2017 :

Open Collaboration, the Eclipse Way with Mike Milinkovich

16 August 2017 :

AI, People, and the Open World with Eric Horvitz

12 July 2017 :

Monadic Programming for the Web Using React and RxJS with Pat Sissons

15 June 2017 :

Using Machine Learning to Study Neural Representations of Language Meaning with Tom Mitchell

31 May 2017 :

Application Management with Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower

3 May 2017 :

Preventing Information Leaks with Policy-Agnostic Programming with Jean Yang

7 April 2017 :

The Next Radical Internet Transformation: How Blockchain Technology is Transforming Business, Governments, Computing, and Security Models with Mark Mueller-Eberstein

17 March 2017 :

Speaking Data: Simple, Functional Programming with Clojure with Paul deGrandis

7 February 2017 :

Current Trends in High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future with Jack Dongarra

25 January 2017 :

Panel and Town Hall: Big Thoughts and Big Questions about Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

2016

8 December 2016 :

Town Hall on A.I., Machine Learning, and More with Peter Norvig

19 October 2016 :

TensorFlow: A Framework for Scalable Machine Learning with Martin Wicke

27 September 2016 :

Generators: Powering Iteration in Python with Luciano Ramalho

2 August 2016 :

Evolving Critical Systems with Mike Hinchey

7 July 2016 :

Large-Scale Deep Learning with TensorFlow with Jeff Dean

17 June 2016 :

The Evolution of Microservices with Adrian Cockroft

16 May 2016 :

A Pragmatic Introduction to Multicore Synchronization with Samy Al Bahra

16 March 2016 :

From BI to Big Data - Architecture, Ethics, and Economics with Barry Devlin

26 February 2016 :

Fail Better: Radical Ideas from the Practice of Cloud Computing with Tom Limoncelli

3 February 2016 :

Computational Thinking with Grady Booch

2015

17 December 2015 :

Making Big Data Processing Simple with Spark with Matei Zaharia

24 November 2015 :

The Five Tribes of Machine Learning with Pedro Domingos

4 November 2015 :

Innovation Colonies with Dominic Holt

9 October 2015 :

What Makes a Great Software Engineer? with Paul Li

20 August 2015 :

Disasters: Robots, Computing, and Informatics with Robin Murphy

30 July 2015 :

What Time Is It? A Guide to Time for Software Developers with George-Neville Neil

25 June 2015 :

Are You Getting Traction? Tales from the Tech Transfer Trenches with Satish Chandra

31 May 2015 :

Extreme Scaling and Performance across Diverse Architectures with Salman Habib and Rajeev Thakur

15 May 2015 :

Making the Digital and Physical Worlds Accessible for People with Disabilities with Eve Andersson

30 April 2015 :

The Fast Data Challenge and Picking the Right Database Why One Size Doesn't Fit All with Michael Stonebraker

27 March 2015 :

Agile Methods: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly Part II with Bertrand Meyer

18 February 2015 :

Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly with Bertrand Meyer

28 January 2015 :

Stranger than Fiction Case Studies in Software Engineering Judgment with Steve McConnell

2014

18 December 2014 :

Getting Cyber Safety Through to Employees and Anyone Else with Ron Woerner

3 December 2014 :

Data Access and Entity Framework with Terry Coatta

1 October 2014 :

Develop Hybrid Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova and PhoneGap Enterprise with Andrew Savory

1 September 2014 :

The Changing Nature of Invention in Computer Science with Dennis Shasha

1 August 2014 :

Async JavaScript at Netflix with Jafar Husain

1 July 2014 :

Simplifying Big Data with Hadoop with Denny Lee

1 June 2014 :

Navigating Cybersecurity and Public Policy Six Key Issues with Herbert Lin

1 June 2014 :

The Marriage of BI and Big Data Business unIntelligence with Barry Devlin

1 May 2014 :

Lessons from the ACM Risks Forum with Peter Neumann

23 April 2014 :

The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone with Andrew Ng

27 March 2014 :

Ruby for the Nuby with David Black

27 February 2014 :

Achieve Massively Parallel Acceleration with GPUs with Mark Ebersole

23 January 2014 :

Computing Professionalism: Do Good and Avoid Evil...and Why It Is Complicated to Do that in Computing with Don Gotterbarn

2013

17 December 2013 :

The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM) with Barry Boehm

20 November 2013 :

Big Data Without Big Database—Extreme In-Memory Caching for Better Performance with Kate Matsudaira

29 October 2013 :

3D on the Web — Introduction to WebGL with Alain Chesnais

25 September 2013 :

The Security Impact of IPv6 with Johannes Ullrich

1 August 2013 :

Never-Ending Learning to Read the Web with Tom Mitchell

17 July 2013 :

Changing How Programmers Think about Parallel Programming with Bill Gropp

13 June 2013 :

IBM Watson: Beyond Jeopardy with Adam Lally

8 May 2013 :

Engineering Software as a Service with David Patterson

23 April 2013 :

Internet's Future Social Implications: Upheaval or "Trek's" Promise? with Vinton Cerf

2012

13 November 2012 :

Condos and Clouds: Patterns in SaaS Applications with Pat Helland

20 September 2012 :

Recommender Systems: The Power of Personalization with Joseph Konstan

28 June 2012 :

Big Data: End of the World or End of BI? with Barry Devlin

12 April 2012 :

Security: Computing in an Adversarial Environment with Carrie Gates

26 January 2012 :

The Cloud in Your Hands: Marriage of Cloud Computing with Smart Devices with Arjmand Samuel and Danny Dalal

ACM TechTalks

A Practical Introduction to Agentic Coding

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