ACM MemberNet - November 30, 2023

November 30, 2023

Welcome to the November 2023 edition of MemberNet, bringing you the world of ACM and beyond. Explore the many facets of ACM with our newsletter of member activities and events. Read past issues of MemberNet online in our archive.

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Organize an Hour of Code in Your Community During Computer Science Education Week, December 4–10

The Hour of Code has introduced more than one and a half billion students in more than 180 countries to computer science. It is a global movement designed to generate excitement in young people about programming and technology, taking place during Computer Science Education Week, December 4–10, with games, tutorials, and other experiences organized by local volunteers from schools, research institutions, and other groups. CSEdWeek is the perfect time to inspire students and their families to learn more about computer science, connect with others in the CS community, and take part in the scheduled events along with millions around the world.

Anyone anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event, and anyone from ages 4 to 104 can enjoy any of a number of fun, engaging, and educational projects which are available in several languages. Learn more about how to host an Hour of Code and how to promote an event.

Dame Wendy Hall Named to UN AI Advisory Board

In an effort to form a single global body to govern artificial intelligence technology, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced a 39-person advisory board to help the international body determine what global rules were needed to oversee AI. Included on this board is ACM Fellow, former ACM President, and current Co-Chair of the ACM Publications Board Dame Wendy Hall, who has already served as an advisor to the UK government as well as other governments and companies around the world. The group would report back by the end of the year and publish its final nonbinding recommendations next summer.

Read the Secretary General's announcement here.

Young Researchers: Apply for the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, September 22–27, 2024

The 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum will bring together some of the brightest minds in mathematics and computer scienc e for an unrestrained, interdisciplinary exchange. During the weeklong conference, young researchers and other participants have the opportunity to connect with scientific pioneers and learn how the laureates made it to the top of their fields. Young researchers can apply to attend until February 9, 2024.

Application information can be found here.

AWARDS

2023 Gordon Bell Prizes Awarded at SC23

An eight-member team drawn from American and Indian institutions has been awarded the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Large-Scale Materials Modeling at Quantum Accuracy: Ab Initio Simulations of Quasicrystals and Interacting Extended Defects in Metallic Alloys.” The ACM Gordon Bell Prize tracks the progress of parallel computing and rewards innovation in applying high-performance computing to challenges in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics.

Read the ACM news release.

ACM also presented a 19-member team with the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project, “The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System.” The new award aims to recognize innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis.

Read the ACM news release.

Both awards were presented during the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC23).

2023 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships

ACM and the IEEE Computer Society announced today that James Gregory Pauloski of the University of Chicago and Rohan Basu Roy of Northeastern University are the recipients of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Hua Huang of the Georgia Institute of Technology received an Honorable Mention. Pauloski is recognized for optimizing HPC resource usage via scalable optimization methods for deep learning training and improving the efficiency of data fabrics in applications spanning heterogeneous resources. Roy is recognized for methods and tools that exploit cloud computing and on-premise HPC resources to enhance the productivity of computational scientists and the sustainability of HPC. Huang is recognized for contributions to high-performance parallel matrix algorithms and implementations and their application to quantum chemistry calculations.

Read the news release.

Call for Nominations for ACM Awards

Each year, ACM recognizes technical and professional achievements within the computing and information technology community through its celebrated Awards Program. ACM welcomes nominations for candidates whose work exemplifies the best and most influential contributions to our community, and society at large.

ACM seeks your help in expanding and diversifying the nomination pool for our ACM Awards. It is often the case that people wonder why a specific person who seems highly deserving has not received an ACM award. The common answer is that the person was never nominated.

Please take a moment to consider those people in your community who may be suitable for nomination. Refer to the award nominations page for links to individual award pages, where you will find nomination requirements, deadlines, and Award Subcommittee Members. Keep in mind ACM's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion when nominating. While candidates for advanced member grades (Fellow or Distinguished Member) must be ACM members, candidates for ACM Awards do not need to be members to be nominated. Nominations for most awards are due December 15, 2023.

MEMBER RECOGNITION

Call for ACM Senior Member Nominations

The Senior Member advanced grade of membership recognizes ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous ACM Professional membership. Nominations are accepted on a quarterly basis. The deadline for nominations is December 3, 2023.

SIG AWARDS

Best Paper Awards Given at Recent ACM SIG Conferences

ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) regularly cite outstanding individuals for their contributions in 38 distinct technological fields. Some awards presented (or to be presented) at conferences:

You can find them all here.

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

ESEC/FSE 2023, December 3–9

The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering is an internationally renowned forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in the field of software engineering. Scheduled keynote speakers are Eran Yahav (Technion), Margaret Burnett (Oregon State University), and Foutse Khomh (Polytechnique Montréal). Tutorials include "Evaluating Fault Detection," "Large Language Models for Software Engineering" and more. This event is being held in-person in San Francisco, California, USA.

CoNEXT 2023, December 5–8

The International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The conference is single track and features a high-quality technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group technical and social interactions among a diverse set of participants. Keynote speakers are Ravi Netravali (Princeton University) and Adrian Perrig (ETH Zürich). This conference will be held in Paris, France.

ACMMM Asia 2023, December 6–8

ACM Multimedia Asia will include sessions for research students and early career researchers, opportunities to communicate with internationally renowned researchers and platforms for social networking. Presentations and tutorials include "Image/Video Processing and Synthesis", "Streaming Media: Algorithms, Protocols and Systems," "Multimedia Signal Processing and Analysis," "Geometric Deep Learning and its Applications For Multimedia," "Intelligent Sports Technologies," and more. Keynote speakers are Kyoung Mu Lee (SNU) and Ko Nishino (Kyoto University). The conference is being held in Tainan, Taiwan.

WSC 2022, December 10–13

Under the theme, “Simulation for Resilient Systems,” the Winter Simulation Conference highlights the vital role that simulation plays in designing, planning, and operating resilient systems under uncertainty. It will feature in-person exhibits and networking events, as well as programs ranging from introductory tutorials to state-of-the-art research and practice. A keynote panel session will feature John Fowler (Arizona State University), and Enver Yücesan (INSEAD). Keynote speakers are Ann Dunkin (US Department of Energy), Hans Ehm (Infineon Technologies AG), and Imre Balogh (New Mexico State University). The event is being held in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Middleware 2023, December 11–15

The ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. Workshops include "SnapStore: A Snapshot Storage System for Serverless" "DynaCut: A Framework for Dynamic and Adaptive Program Customization," "OrderlessChain: A CRDT-based BFT Coordination-free Blockchain Without Global Order of Transactions," and more. Keynote speakers are Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University) and Rodrigo Fonseca (Microsoft). The event is being held at the University of Bologna, Italy.

PUBLIC POLICY

USTPC Urges Copyright Office to Protect Computing Research from Overbroad AI Regulation

In late August, the United States Copyright Office sought public comment broadly on whether and how copyright laws and regulations should be modified to address a host of issues raised by the advent and rapid evolution of artificial intelligence in general and generative AI in particular. More than 10,000 initial responses were received. In brief "reply comments" just filed, USTPC urged restraint and precision, cautioning that overbroadly defining artificial intelligence could inadvertently impede, or even preclude, academic computing research. Specifically, USTPC argued:

For example, a requirement of getting permission to use a copyrighted work to help train an AI model may be an inconvenient cost of doing business for a company providing a “chatbot” to the public. The costs of complying with it, however, can be prohibitive for academic researchers and institutions since it is unlikely that funding agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, would underwrite the time, effort, and expense of contacting every copyright owner.

This means that researchers who want to try to solve the many problems associated with AI (such as detecting “deep fakes,” preventing “hallucinations,” “unlearning” information, and reducing computing's energy demands) might have to do their research using limited training material not representative of the real world or be unable to do the research at all. Such a result would be enormously ill-advised and potentially economically disastrous as it is through past academic research that the United States leads the world in employing artificial intelligence productively.

USTPC's comments were principally authored by Lee Hollaar with substantial input from Pam Samuelson.

Europe TPC Welcomes 100 New General Members

In an ACM Bulletin released just three weeks ago, the Europe Technology Policy Committee (ETPC) invited all European members to contribute to ACM's policy work by becoming non-voting general members of the Committee. At this writing 100 members did exactly that but there's certainly room for more!

Joining ETPC is easy. Simply email your name, ACM member number, and a URL for your preferred online biography to [email protected] with "JOIN ETPC" on the subject line.

Connect with ACM's Tech Policy Groups!

To learn more about upcoming programs and the work of ACM's Technology Policy groups, follow @USTPC and @EuropeTPC on Twitter. If you're interested in contributing to the work of ACM's Europe or US Technology Policy Committees, please email [email protected].

MEMBER PROGRAMS

Become an Ambassador for ACM—You Could Be a Grand Prize Winner!

The Ambassadors for ACM program rewards ACM members like you for encouraging new members to join. Your first-hand experience with ACM's valuable career development and continuous learning programs makes you a perfect envoy to share your ACM experiences with prospective members. The Ambassadors for ACM program offers opportunities for you to earn new prizes, rewards, and bonus gifts with each referral. Submit the ACM Referral Form, and your referrals can join ACM at a special discount rate. Our members are our greatest asset. Your support of ACM is critical to our continuing efforts to advance computing as a science and a profession. Please consider becoming an Ambassador for ACM.

Featured Member Benefit: Discounts and Special Offers

ACM's Discounts and Special Offers Program is our way of saying "Thanks!" to our members by providing you with discounts on the goods and services you need, want and use. Save on insurance, software/hardware, careers and conferences, magazines, books and journals, travel, financial products, and general consumer products.

ACM Academic Department Membership Option

The ACM Academic Department Membership option allows universities and colleges to provide ACM Professional Membership to their faculty at a greatly reduced collective cost. ACM offers membership for academic department faculty at the cost of $49 per person, more than half off the standard ACM professional membership fee of $99 per year. Through this program, each faculty member will receive all the benefits of individual professional ACM membership, including Communication of the ACM, member rates to ACM Special Interest Group conferences, member subscription rates to ACM journals, and much more. To learn more, visit the ACM Academic Department Membership page or contact Cindy Ryan.

LEARNING CENTER

ACM Skills Bundle Add-On

ACM has created a new Skills Bundle Add-on providing unlimited access to ACM's collection of thousands of online books, courses, and training videos from O'Reilly, Skillsoft Percipio, and Pluralsight on the latest technologies and most in-demand job skills, and popular vendor certifications. The new Skills Bundle Add-on is available to paid Professional Members only, with course levels spanning Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, and including learning paths and exam preparation tracks for some of today's hottest certifications such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Tableau, and more. To add the Skills Bundle to your existing Professional Membership, visit the ACM subscription page or contact Member Services.

ACM ByteCast Interviews Noriko Arai

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes Noriko Arai, a Professor in the Information and Society Research Division of the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. She is a researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence and is known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is also the founder of Researchmap, the largest social network for researchers in Japan.

In the interview, Noriko and Scott discuss the challenge of being a creative in the modern academic environment, where publishing is paramount, and how her multidisciplinary background, which spans law, economics, and mathematics, has been an asset in her scientific research. She also mentions her 2010 book, How Computers Can Take Over Our Jobs, how that led to her work on the Todai Robot Project, and much more.

Listen to ACM ByteCast interviews here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

EDUCATION

EngageCSEdu Instructional Materials—Volume 2 Added

EngageCSEdu publishes high-quality, engaging, classroom-tested Open Educational Resources (OER’s) for computer science education that have been contributed by various authors and covering a growing number of topics. Several of the EngageCSEdu resources—including the newly added Volume 2—are now available in ACM’s Digital Library, as well as in published collections:

Vol. 2 Issue 1 - Regular Issue
Vol. 1 Issue 1 - Inaugural Issue
Vol. 1 Issue 2 - Special Issue on HCI Education
Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Special Issue on AI Education

All issues both published and upcoming can be found here.

ACM Ethics in Computing Education: Security

Hosted by EngageCSEdu, The Ethics & Computing Repository is designed to aid studying, or teaching courses, involving ethical issues related to a broad range of computing topics. It is a collection of articles, mainly from popular media and many of them recent. Each month MemberNet will feature a different subject in ethics and computing, offering a variety of articles, reports, and other interesting and informative items for readers to explore.

This month, the focus is "Security." Titles under this category include "Vulnerabilities in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Let Hackers Bypass Firewalls," "China Scores Businesses, and Low Grades Could Be a Trade War Weapon," and more.

STUDENT NEWS

Upcoming ACM Student Research Competitions: Submission Deadlines

ACM Student Research Competitions (SRCs) offer a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees. The most recent SRC winners were presented at SC 2023. The next conferences accepting submissions are:

PLDI 2024 June 24-28, 2024, deadline March 22, 2024
SIGMETRICS 2024, June 10–14, 2024, deadline February 23, 2024
CHI 2024, May 11–16, 2024, deadline January 18, 2024
Programming, March 11–14, 2024, deadline December 4, 2024

Graduating Students Eligible for Special Transition Rate

ACM offers a special ACM Professional Membership for $49 USD (regularly $99) to help graduating students make the transition to professional careers, and take advantage of continuous learning opportunities, including free online books and courses and access to ACM's Career & Job Center. This one-year-only transition rate includes all the benefits of Professional Membership plus the option of purchasing a Digital Library subscription for $50. Recent graduates can access this special transition offer through ACM's convenient online renewal form, or by following the instructions on the paper renewal form. For more information, visit the Reasons to Transition to Professional Membership page.

ACM-W NEWS

View on Demand: Celebrating Technology Leaders - Quantum Computing: Potential, Practicality, and Perils

Quantum computing has strongly impacted the field of computer science while raising many questions. What problems are quantum computers particularly good at solving? Are there any practical applications of quantum computing today? What are some hurdles towards the adoption of Quantum Computing? Bushra Anjum hosts a panel of women technologists from diverse career paths and stages who have contributed to the field of Quantum Computing—Mariia Mykhailova (Microsoft), Marlou Slot (NIST), Temitope Adeniyi (Cleveland State University), and Denise Ruffner (Diversity in Quantum)—as they examine the possibilities quantum computing and demystify terms like "superposition", "entanglement", "interference", "tunneling," and "decoherence" in a beginner-friendly way.

View on demand here.

womENcourage–Celebration of Women in Computing

The 11th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2024, will be hosted at Escuela Politécnica Superior of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, June 26-28, 2024. Open to all genders, this event is aimed at celebrating the role and impact of women in computing and supporting participants at different stages in their STEM careers by offering an international, multisectoral, and multidisciplinary forum to share experience and knowledge, get constructive feedback, and promote meaningful networking. The theme, "Responsible Computing for Gender Equality", highlights the gender gap in computing and puts the stress on the utilitarian nature of computing, as a tool to augment human capabilities and contribute to the progress of society.

Learn more here.

Introducing Stories From the Greek and Trondheim Student Chapter Buddies!

ACM-W has started a new campaign. The aim of this campaign is to encourage all ACM-W chapters to partner with other ACM-W chapters to become a Buddy for collaborative works—and already there is one student chapter buddy and one professional chapter buddy. ACM-W Europe continues with the collaboration of its chapters as the buddy system campaign started by ACM-W. The second chapter buddies of ACM-W Europe happened between two professional chapters which are Trondheim ACM-W and The Greek ACM-W.

ACM Scholarships for Women Computing Students to Attend Research Conferences

With Research Computer Science Conference Scholarships, ACM-W provides support for women undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related programs to attend research computer science conferences around the world. This exposure to computing research can inspire a student to continue onto the next level of their academic or professional career. The ACM-W scholarships are divided between scholarships of up to $600 for intra-continental conference travel, and scholarships of up to $1,200 for intercontinental conference travel. Scholarship applications are evaluated in six groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences. Learn more about ACM-W scholarships and how to apply here.

Join ACM-W's Membership Email List

Did you know that ACM-W offers a general email distribution list for its members? This ACM-W public list is a communication channel for disseminating general information about ACM-W, bulletins, and upcoming events, which can be joined here. Also read the ACM-W Connections newsletter for updates on ACM-W programs, local celebrations, scholarships and awards, chapters, and more.

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

Apply to Join LEVEL UP Regional Workshops

Computing education continues to face challenges around inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessible learning, and we believe change is possible through a coordinated effort among engaged computing leaders and faculty. The goal of the LEVEL UP project—a combined initiative of ACM, CRA and IEEE-CS—is to build consensus around a united vision of inclusive undergraduate computing education. Through collaboration with a respected advisory board of computing educators and professionals from across the country, LEVEL UP will chart a pathway that undergraduate computing programs can implement to offer inclusive computing courses and opportunities where all students feel welcome and thrive.

Learn more about the workshops and apply here.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS PROGRAM

About the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program

Book the speaker for your next event through the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) and deliver compelling and insightful content to your audience. ACM will cover the cost of transportation for the speaker to travel to your event. Our program features renowned thought leaders in academia, industry, and government speaking about the most important topics in the computing and IT world today. Our booking process is simple and convenient.

See ACM Distinguished Speakers in action on our Flickr page.

Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker: Nikolas Ioannou

Nikolas Ioannou is a Research Manager and Master Inventor at IBM Research Zurich, where he leads the Cloud Data Platforms group, working on cloud infrastructure, non-volatile memories, distributed file systems, and systems aspects of machine learning frameworks. His work has had product impact in a range of IBM products, including IBM FlashSystem, IBM Cloud database services, the IBM Easy Tier Server for DS8000, and IBM Watson Machine Learning. Nikolas has over 90 patents (60 granted) in the areas of machine learning, solid-state memory technology, and cloud computing. His lectures include “Reaping the Performance of Solid-State Storage,” and “Toward a Better Understanding and Benchmarking of Tree Data Structures on Flash Ssds.” He is available to speak through the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program.

For more information about Ioannou, please visit his DSP speaker information page.

MEETUPS

ACM Local Meetups

ACM Local Meetups connect smart technical people at local city events. They are informal groups that meet regularly to discuss a diverse array of computing topics. The following local ACM Meetups have been scheduled:

Youngstown: NEOACM REMOTE General Assembly Meeting, December 3
This is a monthly meeting where there will be reports from the treasurer, secretary, and committee heads. There will also be article discussions and lightning talks.
ACM Los Angeles: Light Field Lab with Jon Karafin, December 5
As CEO of Light Field Lab, a breakthrough technology startup, Karafin applies his expertise to designing and scaling the company’s groundbreaking SolidLightTM holographic display platform.
Kansas City: Kansas City Meeting, December 14
This is the monthly meeting where a specific topic is presented, and an informal general discussion occurs after.

ACM Local Meetups are active in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York City, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Rio de Janeiro, Sacramento, San Francisco, Surabaya, Washington DC, and Youngstown. If you are interested in organizing a Meetup in your locale, please contact Andrew Conklin.

CHAPTERS NEWS

Welcome New ACM Chapters

Chapters are the "local neighborhoods" of ACM. The regional ACM Professional, Student, ACM-W, and Special Interest Group (SIG) chapters around the globe involve members locally in competitions, seminars, lectures, workshops, and networking opportunities. ACM welcomes the new chapters that were chartered October 14 through November 16, 2023:

ACM Student Chapters:

Anuradha Engineering College Chikhli ACM Student Chapter, Chikhli, India
Capital University ACM Student Chapter, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Capital University ACM-W Student Chapter, Columbus, Ohio, USA
CBIT Hyderabad ACM Student Chapter, Hyderabad, India
CDGI ACM Student Chapter, Indore, India
Central State University ACM Student Chapter, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA
CGC Jhanjeri ACM Student Chapter, Mohali, India
College of the Canyons ACM Student Chapter, Santa Clarita, California, USA
CSCC ACM Student Chapter, Columbus, Ohio, USA
GIST ACM Student Chapter, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India
Hangzhou Dianzi University ACM Student Chapter, Hangzhou, China
IACS ACM Student Chapter, Kolkata, India
IIITD ACM-W Student Chapter, New Delhi, India
ISL Pine Avenue ACM Student Chapter, Lahore, Pakistan
Narasaraopeta Engg College ACM Student Chapter, Narasaraopeta, India
PCCOER ACM-W Student Chapter, Pune, India
SAITM ACM Student Chapter, Gurugram, India
Shoolini University ACM Student Chapter, Solan, India
Techno Main Salt Lake ACM Student Chapter, Kolkata, India
UC Berkeley ACM Student Chapter, Berkeley, California, USA
UIndy ACM Student Chapter, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
University of North Carolina Wilmington ACM Student Chapter, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
University of Pittsburgh ACM Student Chapter, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
University of Portland ACM Student Chapter, Portland, Oregon, USA
University of Queensland ACM-W Student Chapter, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
University of Wyoming ACM Student Chapter, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
UTAS-Al Mussanah ACM Student Chapter, Muscat, Oman

ACM Professional Chapters:

Austria ACM SIGCHI Chapter, Hagenberg, Austria
Central Ohio ACM-W Chapter, Westerville, Ohio, USA

PUBLISHING NEWS

acmqueue: "Device Onboarding Using FDO and the Untrusted Installer Model"

Geoffrey H. Cooper. principal engineer at Intel, contrasts FDO's untrusted model with Wi-Fi Easy Connect to illustrate the advantages of each mechanism. Automatic onboarding of devices is an important technique to handle the increasing number of "edge" and IoT devices being installed. Onboarding of devices is different from most device-management functions because the device’s trust transitions from the factory and supply chain to the target application. To speed the process with automatic onboarding, the trust relationship in the supply chain must be formalized in the device to allow the transition to be automated.

ACM Journals Seeking Editors-in-Chief

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief starting on January 1, 2024. This is a voluntary position, but ACM will provide appropriate administrative support. Nominations are due December 15, 2023, although nominations will continue to be accepted until the position is filled. For more information please visit the call page.

New ACM Books

From Algorithms to Thinking Machines: The New Digital Power by Domenico Talia introduces and provides an analysis of the basic concepts of algorithms, data, and computation and discusses the role of algorithms in ruling and shaping our world. It combines a layman’s approach with a well-founded scientific description to discuss both principles and applications of algorithms, Big Data, and machine intelligence. The book provides a clear and deep description of algorithms, software systems, data-driven applications, machine learning, and data science concepts, as well as the evolution and impact of artificial intelligence.

The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making by Manish Raghavan demonstrates the need for and the value of interdisciplinary research in addressing important societal challenges associated with the widespread use of algorithmic decision-making. It presents several contributions to the growing body of literature that seeks to respond to these challenges, drawing on techniques and insights from computer science, economics, and law. The author develops tools and frameworks to characterize the impacts of decision-making and incorporates models of behavior to reason about decision-making in complex environments.

ACM Open: Council of Australian University Librarians Sign Agreement

ACM and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) are delighted to announce a new ACM Open agreement beginning in January 2024. Thanks to this agreement, researchers at 34 institutions in Australia and New Zealand will receive unlimited access to the ACM Digital Library and have the opportunity to publish an unlimited number of research articles Open Access. ACM thanks the participating institutions for their support of ACM’s Publications program as we transition to a fully Open Access publisher by the end of 2025, and ACM would also like to thank CAUL for their efforts and advocacy on behalf of their member institutions during the consultation period.

Read the press release here.

ACM Open is ACM's transformative Open Access publishing model for transitioning ACM to a sustainable Open Access publisher with the goal of making research publications in the ACM Digital Library fully Open Access upon publication. A full list of institutions that have signed on to the ACM Open program can be found here, and please learn more about ACM’s timeline for transitioning the Digital Library to Open Access here.

Explore "Creativity with AI" with an #HourofCode

This year's theme for #HourofCode is "Creativity with AI." Join millions across the globe in organizing an hour of coding, with or without AI and learning how AI works. Anyone anywhere can do it. Email [email protected] with your event photos for opportunities to get featured across ACM's social media channels.

ACM CAREER & JOB CENTER

ACM Career & Job Center Connects You With Career Opportunities

Connecting with the right employers in computing can be a daunting task. Thankfully, the world's leading companies, colleges and universities come to the ACM Career & Job Center to find the best candidates. By creating an account on the ACM Career and Job Center, you'll gain access to a wide range of tools to help you find the perfect job:

Finding a Job - Use the job search tools to find a job that matches your search criteria.
Create and Manage Email Alerts - Stay on top of the latest job openings. Receive an email when new jobs match your search criteria.
Create/Post Resumes - Get noticed by employers. Create or upload a resume with our easy-to-use tools so employers can get in touch with you.
View Saved Jobs - Save jobs that interest you, add notes, share with friends, and track your applications to keep on top of your job search.

For any assistance with the ACM Career and Job Center, please contact ACM's Advertising Sales Manager, Ilia Rodriguez.

ACM MemberNet - November 30, 2023