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Welcome to the August 2017 ACM Learning Center Bulletin, keeping you current on the many online learning tools ACM offers to help extend our members' skills and knowledge. To suggest addition of books, courses, future Webinar speakers and topics, or just offer feedback, leave a note in the Learning Center Suggestion Box
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| IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Register Now: "Open Collaboration, the Eclipse Way," with Mike Milinkovich on September 7
 Register now for the next ACM Learning Webinar, "Open Collaboration, the Eclipse Way," presented live on Thursday, Steptember 7 at 12 PM ET by Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. Will Traz, Past Chair of ACM SIGSOFT, moderates the questions and answers session following the talk. Leave your questions for the Q&A and comments now, during, and after the talk on ACM's Discourse Page. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://webinar.acm.org/.
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Available on Demand: "A.I., People, and the Open World," with Eric Horvitz
 If you missed it live, check out "A.I., People, and the Open World," presented by Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research Labs; ACM Fellow. Stephen Ibaraki, Co-Chair of the ACM Practitioners Board, moderated a questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://webinar.acm.org/.
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Available on Demand: "Monadic Programming for the Web Using React and RxJS," with Pat Sissons
 If you missed it live, check out "Monadic Programming for the Web Using React and RxJS," presented by Pat Sissons, Senior Software Developer at Marine Learning Systems. Erik Meijer, Founder and CEO at Applied Duality and member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Leave your questions for the Q&A and comments now, during, and after the talk on ACM's Discourse Page. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://webinar.acm.org/.
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Available on Demand: "Using Machine Learning to Study Neural Representations of Language Meaning," with Tom Mitchell
 If you missed it live, check out "Using Machine Learning to Study Neural Representations of Language Meaning," presented by Tom Mitchell, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Will Tracz, Lockheed Martin Fellow Emeritus and Former Chair of ACM SIGSOFT, led the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://webinar.acm.org/.
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| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
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Featured Skillsoft Course: CISSP: Communication & Network Security Design
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is CISSP: Communication & Network Security Design. Securing network communications is a key activity in managing the security of any IT system, and the network is a common and potent vector for attack. In this course, you'll learn about the design and components of network systems, how to implement secure systems, and how to mitigate common attacks.
To access this and more than 1,750 Skillsoft Learning Collections courses, visit the ACM Learning Center, click on the Skillsoft Learning in the top right corner, log in with your member credentials, and click on Skillsoft Learning again. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page. For more on the features in Skillport 8, see our Skillsoft FAQ/Support page.
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New Skillsoft Books: August 2017
 New books covering the latest IT skills and technologies are always being added to the ACM Skillsoft Learning Collections. Here are some of the notable titles recently added to our library:
- Advances in GPU Research and Practice
- Algorithms for Dummies
- Android: Pocket Primer
- API Management: An Architect's Guide to Developing and Managing APIs for Your Organization
- Application Performance Management (APM) in the Digital Enterprise: Managing Applications for Cloud, Mobile, IoT and eBusiness
- Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Fu Cheng
- C Programming: A Self-Teaching Introduction
- C# Programming in Easy Steps
- Chatbots for eCommerce: Learn How to Build a Virtual Shopping Assistant
- Cloud Computing: A Self-Teaching Introduction
- CompTIA A+ Practice Tests: Exam 220-901 and Exam 220-902
- Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: Land, Sea, and Air
- Essential Docker for ASP.NET Core MVC
- Exploring Swift Playgrounds: The Fastest and Most Effective Way to Learn to Code and to Teach Others to Use Your Code
- Functional Programming in R: Advanced Statistical Programming for Data Science, Analysis and Finance
- Imaginarium: The Process Behind the Pictures
- InDesign in Easy Steps: Covers Versions CS3, CS4, and CS5
- IoT Solutions in Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite: Data Acquisition and Analysis in the Real World
- iPhone & Apple Watch for Health & Fitness in Easy Steps
- Java 9 Revealed: For Early Adoption and Migration
- Learn ASP.NET Core MVC: Be Ready Next Week Using Visual Studio 2017
- OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Exam Guide (Exams 1Z0-808)
- Operating Systems: An Introduction
- Oracle Application Express: Build Powerful Data-Centric Web Apps with APEX
- Oracle Database 12c Release 2 In-Memory: Tips and Techniques for Maximum Performance
- Oracle SQL Tuning with Oracle SQLTXPLAIN: Oracle Database 12c Edition, Second Edition
- Photoshop Elements 15 Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in Easy Steps
- Practical GameMaker: Studio Language Projects
- Programming Essentials Using Java: A Game Application Approach
- Python 3: Pocket Primer
- Quantum Machine Learning: What Quantum Computing Means to Data Mining
- Raspberry Pi Image Processing Programming: Develop Real-Life Examples with Python, Pillow, and SciPy
- Research Methods for Cyber Security
- Spring Boot Messaging: Messaging APIs for Enterprise and Integration Solutions
- Spring Boot: How to Get Started and Build a Microservice
- The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations
- The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow
- The Film Photography Handbook: Rediscovering Photography in 35mm, Medium, and Large Format
- The Indispensable Guide to Lightroom CC: Managing, Editing, and Sharing Your Photos
- The Metadata Manual: A Practical Workbook
- The Photographer's Guide to Drones
- The Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone
- The Soul of the Camera: The Photographer's Place in Picture-Making
- Website Hosting and Migration with Amazon Web Services: A Practical Guide to Moving Your Website to AWS
- Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery: Team Services, Test Cloud, and HockeyApp
To access this and more than 4,800 Skillsoft Learning Collections eBooks, visit the ACM Learning Center, log in with your member credentials, and click on Skillsoft Learning in the top right corner. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page.
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New Skillsoft Short Videos: August 2017
Did you know that ACM members have access to thousands of IT and productivity videos from Skillsoft? Covering a variety of today's hottest topics, these videos offer "on-the-job" support and "just-in-time" solutions for busy practitioners. Recently, Skillsoft added significant video content in the following knowledge areas:
- Application Performance Engineering
- AWS Essentials
- CISM
- Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
- HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3
- IBM WebSphere Commerce
- JS Frameworks and Libraries
- MongoDB
- Office 365
- PowerShell Essentials
- Securing Windows Server 2016
- Security+
- System Center
See learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
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Featured Safari Title: OpenStack Cloud Application Development
OpenStack Cloud Application Development is a fast-paced, professional book for OpenStack developers, delivering comprehensive guidance without wasting time on development fundamentals. Written by experts in the OpenStack community from Infoblox, Gigaspaces, GoDaddy, and Comcast, this book shows you how to work effectively and efficiently within the OpenStack platform to develop large, scalable applications without worrying about underlying hardware. Follow along with an OpenStack build that illustrates how and where each technology comes into play, as you learn expert tips and best practices that make your product stronger. Coverage includes OpenStack service primitives, networking within the OpenStack Ecosystem, deployment of Virtualized Network Functions for Enterprises, containers, data protection, and much more.
To access this and more than 40,000 award-winning, best-selling technical books, full-length video courses, and O'Reilly Conference videos, visit the ACM Learning Center and click on the Safari Learning Platform in the right hand corner. Please visit our Safari FAQ to learn more about the new Safari platform.
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Featured ScienceDirect Title: Coding for Penetration Testers
Coding for Penetration Testers discusses the use of various scripting languages in penetration testing. The book presents step-by-step instructions on how to build customized penetration testing tools using Perl, Ruby, Python, and other languages. It also provides a primer on scripting including, but not limited to, Web scripting, scanner scripting, and exploitation scripting.
This is just one of nearly 1,200 titles from publishers Morgan Kaufmann (MK) and Syngress in ACM's eBook collection, covering the most bleeding-edge topics in computing, such as Big Data, Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel Computing, and more. The books are available in PDF (and some in ePub) and are downloadable to your desktop, laptop, tablet, and any popular eBook reader on your mobile device. All members (Student and Professional) can access them through the ScienceDirect portal on the ACM Learning Center as well as the ACM Digita Library.
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ACM Interview: Juergen Schmidhuber
 Tune in as the leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs advancing computing as a science and a profession discuss their background, experience, and career highlights, all while providing invaluable insights and lessons learned for future computing professionals in this ongoing series of exclusive interviews conducted by Stephen Ibaraki, Co-Chair of the ACM Practitioners Board.
In a recent ACM Podcast Stephen Ibaraki interviewed Juergen Schmidhuber, Co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research. The Deep Learning Neural Networks developed since the early 1990s in Prof. J�rgen Schmidhuber's group at TU Munich and the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA (USI and SUPSI) have revolutionized machine learning and AI, and are now available to billions of users through Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu, and many other companies. His research group also established the field of mathematically rigorous universal AI and optimal universal problem solvers. His formal theory of creativity and curiosity and fun explains art, science, music, and humor. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, and is President of NNAISENSE, which aims at building the first practical general purpose AI.
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