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| Welcome to the ACM Learning Center Bulletin |
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Welcome to the June 2016 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 for July 7 Talk with Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and 2012 ACM - Infosys Foundation Award Recipient: "Large-Scale Deep Learning with TensorFlow for Building Intelligent Systems"
 Register for our next ACM Learning Webinar, "Large-Scale Deep Learning with TensorFlow for Building Intelligent Systems", presented live on Thursday, July 7 at 12 pm ET by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow and 2012 ACM - Infosys Foundation Award Recipient. Jeff will discuss his group's work on two large-scale computer systems for training neural networks, which have been applied to a wide variety of problems that have traditionally been very difficult for computers. Their software systems and algorithms have been used by dozens of different groups at Google to train state-of-the-art models for speech recognition, image recognition, various visual detection tasks, language modeling, language translation, and many other tasks. TensorFlow, their second system, is a platform for machine learning research and product deployment, and was released as an open-source project in November, 2015 (see tensorflow.org). Jeff will discuss ways in which his team applied their work to a variety of problems in Google's products, usually in close collaboration with other teams. Stephen Ibaraki, Chair of the ACM Professional Development Committee, moderates the Q&A session. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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Available on Demand: "The Evolution of Microservices" with Adrian Cockroft
 If you missed it live, "The Evolution of Microservices", presented live on Friday, June 17 at 12 pm ET by Adrian Cockroft, Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures, is now available on demand. The talk follows how cloud and containerization have driven microservices architectures, serverless deployments, and integrated DevOps based organizations, and describe how to simulate and visualize large scale microservices deployments in a few seconds, to help your products, organization, and architecture adapt to changes on shorter and shorter timescales. John Wetherill, Principal Architect at BNY Mellon and Member of the ACM San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, moderates. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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Available on Demand: "Transferring Software Testing Tools to Practice," a SIGSOFT Webinar
If you missed it live, "Transferring Software Testing Tools to Practice", presented live on Wednesday, June 22 at 12 pm ET by Nikolai Tillmann, Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft; Judith Bishop, Director of Computer Science at Microsoft Research; and Tao Xie, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is now available on demand. This talk covers the presenters' experiences and lessons learned in successfully transferring tools from a medium-sized software testing project, Pex. A collaboration between groups at Microsoft across the world and academics in various universities, Pex has produced high-impact tools that are now shipped by the company and adopted by the community. Attendees will take away with some general ideas from our experiences that they can apply within their own projects. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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New Skillsoft Titles Added to ACM eBook Catalog
 In recent months, hundreds of new titles have been added to the Skillsoft Books collection. Below are just some of the highlights from the recently added titles:
- An Introduction to Probability and Statistics; Third Edition
- Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century: A Living Introduction; Second Edition
- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
- C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework; Seventh Edition
- CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching Study Guide with Boson NetSim; Limited Edition (Exam 200-101; ICND2)
- Cisco Networking Essentials; Second Edition
- CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide; Seventh Edition
- CISSP Study Guide, Third Edition
- CompTIA Network+ Certification Study Guide; Sixth Edition (Exam N10-006)
- Elementary Information Security; Second Edition
- Elementary Number Theory with Programming
- IT Governance: An International Guide to Data Security and ISO27001/ISO27002; 6th Edition
- Java Design Patterns: A Tour of 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns in Java
- Java Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach; 4th Edition
- Mike Meyers' CompTIA Security+ Certification Guide (Exam SY0-401)
- OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Study Guide (Exam 1Z0-808)
- Operating System Forensics
- Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer
- Raspberry Pi with Java: Programming the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Web Design and Development: Concepts; Methodologies; Tools; and Applications; Volume I
To access these and more than 3,000 Skillsoft Learning Collections eBooks, visit the ACM eBook Catalog. To jump directly to particular subject areas, visit the Skillsoft Learning Collections page.
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| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
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Featured Skillsoft Course: Machine Learning Examples for Data Science in R
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is Machine Learning Examples for Data Science in R. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics and has become an important tool in modern data science. In this course, you will learn the essential R machine learning methods that data scientists use in their everyday work.
To access this and more than 1,300 Skillsoft Learning Collections courses, 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. For more on the features in Skillport 8, see our Skillsoft FAQ/Support page.
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New Skillsoft Books: June 2016
 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:
- Agile Project Management Using Team Foundation Server 2015
- Beginning SOLID Principles and Design Patterns for ASP.NET Developers
- Business Intelligence Strategy and Big Data Analytics: A General Management Perspective
- Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 12
- Kubernetes Microservices with Docker
- Photoshop Elements 14 For Dummies
- Pro CSS3 Layout Techniques
- Rails 5 Revealed
- Relational Database Design and Implementation, Fourth Edition
- Teach Yourself VISUALLY Android Phones and Tablets, 2nd Edition
A more comprehensive list of recently added book titles is available at http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm (see sidebar). To access this and more than 3,000 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: June 2016
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. Check out a couple of demo videos on Python and AngularJS.
Recently, Skillsoft added significant video content in the following knowledge areas:
- AWS Certified Developer
- ICND1
- Microsoft Project 2013
- Oracle Database 12c Revisions
- PowerPoint Best Practices
- Using Justinmind
See http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
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Featured MK Title: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning
Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning provides a general introduction to machine learning that covers a wide range of topics concisely and will help you bridge the gap between theory and practice. Part I discusses the fundamental concepts of statistics and probability that are used in describing machine learning algorithms. Part II and Part III explain the two major approaches of machine learning techniques; generative methods and discriminative methods. Part III also provides an in-depth look at advanced topics that play essential roles in making machine learning algorithms more useful in practice.
This is just one of nearly 500 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 ACM Learning Center eBook catalog as well as the ACM Digital Library.
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ACM Interview: Anand Sanwal
 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, Chair of the ACM Professional Development Committee.
In a recent ACM Podcast Stephen Ibaraki interviewed Anand Sanwal, CEO and Co-founder of CB Insights, a National Science Foundation-backed data platform that provides predictive intelligence into the health of private companies, their investors and the emerging industries they compete in. Sanwal shares lessons in entrepreneurialism, the siginficance of A.I. and deep learning, the impact of emerging industries such as FinTech, and more.
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