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Welcome to the November 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 Dec 8 Town Hall with Peter Norvig: "Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More"
 Register for our next ACM Learning Webinar, "Town Hall with Peter Norvig on A.I., Machine Learning, and More", presented live on Thursday, Dec 8 at 12 pm ET by Peter Norvig, Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc. and an ACM Fellow. Join us for an open, interactive Q&A session. Rosemary Paradis, Principal Research Engineer at Leidos Health and Life Sciences, and SIGAI Treasurer, will moderate. 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: "TensorFlow: A Framework for Scalable Machine Learning" with Martin Wicke
 If you missed it live, check out "TensorFlow: A Framework for Scalable Machine Learning", presented live on Wednesday, October 19 at 12 pm ET by Martin Wicke, Software Engineer at Google. Martin introduced TensorFlow, a framework for scalable machine learning. Since its launch in 2015, TensorFlow has become a popular open-source project. In this Tutorial, Martin starts from TensorFlow basics such as how to build and run Graphs, how to work with Sessions, Variables and Ops. He then shows how to perform large-scale training using queues and distribute training on several devices or computers. Rajat Monga, Engineering Director at Google, 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: "Generators: Powering Iteration in Python" with Luciano Ramhlo
 If you missed it live, check out "Generators: Powering Iteration in Python", presented live on Tuesday, September 27 at 12 pm ET by Luciano Ramhlo, Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks and the author of Fluent Python (O�Reilly, 2015; available to ACM members in the ACM Learning Center). Ramalho was a web developer before the Netscape IPO in 1995, and has worked on some of the largest news portals in Brazil using Python since 1998. He has spoken multiple times at OSCON, PyCon, PythonBrasil, FISL, and RuPy. Ramalho is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation and co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first hackerspace in Brazil. He is a member of ACM as well as SIGCSE (the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education). Alexey Boas, Head of Technology at ThoughtWorks Brazil, 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: "Embracing Open Data Science in Your Organization" with Christine Doig
 If you missed it live, check out "Embracing Open Data Science in Your Organization", presented live on Wednesday, Sep 7 at 12 pm ET by Christine Doig, Senior Data Scientist at Continuum Analytics. At Continuum, Christine has worked, among other projects, on MEMEX, a DARPA-funded project helping stop human trafficking. She is a regular speaker and trainer at community conferences including PyCon, EuroPython, PyData, OSCON and Data Science Summit. In this tutorial-style talk, Christine will present the Anaconda platform and its foundational open source packages: Conda for package and environment management, Bokeh for interactive data visualization, Dask for parallel computing, Numba for high performance Python, and Datashader for large scale visualizations. Anaconda, the leading Open Data Science platform, is built on open source technology to fulfill the enterprise needs of Data Scientists and their colleagues, including Business Analysts, Developers, DevOps and Data Engineers. A Q&A session follows the talk. You can view our entire archive of past ACM Learning Webinars on demand at http://learning.acm.org/webinar/.
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| Learning Center: Books, Courses, Videos |
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Featured Skillsoft Course: Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
 This month's featured Skillsoft course is Getting Started with Amazon Web Services. AWS facilitates managing application-related resources automatically from convenient interfaces. In this course, you will learn about some of the various services offered by Amazon Web Services. You'll also learn the basic steps to get started developing a Node.js application on AWS.
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: November 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:
- Advanced AutoCAD 2017 Exercise Workbook
- Agile Systems Engineering
- Applied Artificial Higher Order Neural Networks for Control and Recognition
- Beginning AutoCAD 2017 Exercise Workbook
- Beginning Backdrop CMS
- Bitcoin For Dummies
- CEH Certified Ethical Hacker All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition
- Cryptography Made Simple
- Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with JMP Pro
- Data Simplification: Taming Information with Open Source Tools
- Foundations of Quantum Programming
- Learn to Program with Minecraft: Transform Your World with the Power of Python
- Network and Data Security for Non-Engineers
- Network Function Virtualization
- Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering
- The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations
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: November 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:
- Apache Solr Essentials
- AWS Certified Developer
- CISA
- Cybersecurity Analyst+
- Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
- Domain-driven Design
- Google Cloud SQL for Developers
- Introduction to Scala
- iOS Application Development
- Java EE 7 Back-end Server Development
- Java EE 7 Web Development
- Microsoft Power BI
- Python for Data Science
- Teradata Basics
- Transact-SQL
- Using Akka
See http://learning.acm.org/books/skillsoft_video.cfm for more information on short videos.
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Featured Safari Title: Spring Microservices
The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of the control container for the Java platform. The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions to build web applications on top of the Java EE platform. Spring Microservices helps you implement the microservice architecture in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud. Written to the latest specifications of Spring, you'll be able to build modern, Internet-scale Java applications in no time.
This is just one of 700 award-winning, best-selling technical books, full-length video courses, and O'Reilly Conference videos from Safari Books Online in ACM's eBook collection, by leading publishers such as O'Reilly Media, Manning and many more. 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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Featured MK Title: Data Analysis in the Cloud
Data Analysis in the Cloud introduces and discusses models, methods, techniques, and systems to analyze the large number of digital data sources available on the Internet using the computing and storage facilities of the cloud. Coverage includes scalable data mining and knowledge discovery techniques together with cloud computing concepts, models, and systems.
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: Chris Howard
 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 Chris Howard. Christopher Howard is an entrepreneur passionate about transforming how people interact with distributed systems. He is the CEO and co-founder of Kersplody, a start-up that solves many of the integration challenges involved with cyber security and big data deployments. At his previous position at Lockheed Martin, Mr. Howard developed software and solutions for numerous intelligence, civil, and defense projects including those involving big data, MULTI-INT sensor data fusion, Cyber Security, and Net Centric Warfare.
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