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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. ACM’s collection includes more than 60,000 online books and video courses from O’Reilly, 9,700 online courses and 11,000 eBooks and audiobooks from Skillsoft, and 2,000 courses from Pluralsight.

The new Skills Bundle add-on is available to paid Professional Members only. Visit the ACM subscription page or contact Member Services to add the Skills Bundle to your membership.

ACM ByteCast

Listen to ACM ByteCast!

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research. As leader of Microsoft Research, Peter incubates new research-powered products and lines of business in areas such as AI, computing foundations, health, and life sciences. Before Microsoft, he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in ML, data science, and computational social science at DARPA, and before that he was head of the CS department at CMU. Peter served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee. He coauthored the bestselling book The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond. In 2024, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in health and life sciences.

ACM TechTalks

Mayo Oshin and Nuno Campos TechTalk

Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk, "What's Differrent about LLM Apps," presented on Thursday, May 8 at 12:00 PM ET/17:00 UTC by Mayo Oshin, an AI engineer and early pioneer of LangChain, and Nuno Campos, Software Engineer at LangChain. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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New Pluralsight Courses and Learning Paths

We have added dozens of new and updated Pluralsight learning paths, with hundreds of new courses added. These significant new additions to the custom ACM Pluralsight course library extend coverage of today’s most in-demand skills, technologies, and vendor certifications, including coverage of .NET and Blazor, Angular, AWS and Azure cloud, C#, Data Engineering, DevOps and ITOps, Generative AI and Machine Learning, Java and the Spring Framework, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, React, and Rust.

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Beginning Python 3 with Grok 2

This book is a comprehensive guide designed to teach the fundamentals of Python programming while introducing the exciting possibilities of Generative AI. Whether you’re a novice or a developer looking to integrate Grok into your workflow, this book offers a clear, step-by-step path to mastering Python and leveraging AI-driven code generation. It begins by covering Python fundamentals, including data types, string manipulation, loops, conditional logic, and exception handling. It then introduces Python collections, such as lists, dictionaries, and sets, along with their practical applications.

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Architecting React Applications with Next.js

In this course, you'll learn to solve these challenges with the tools and strategies needed to architect robust, maintainable, and high-performing applications. First, you'll take a deep dive into React's latest features like Suspense, Server Components, and Server-side Rendering (SSR) within the Next.js framework. Next, you'll explore common pain points when scaling React apps and how to optimize applications using Next.js’ built-in capabilities, such as static site generation and dynamic rendering. Finally, you'll review practical examples, like managing a shopping cart and implementing server actions, gaining hands-on experience with techniques that streamline complex state management and data fetching.

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Manage Virtual Machine Snapshots v8

In this Challenge Lab, you will manage virtual machine snapshots in your vSphere environment. First, you will create a snapshot of a running virtual machine that includes the virtual machine’s memory, and then you will create a snapshot of a running virtual machine that does not include the virtual machine’s memory. Next, you will modify the hardware on a virtual machine by using a snapshot. Finally, you will manage multiple snapshots on a single virtual machine, and then you will delete a snapshot.

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Breaking News: CVEs and Hot Takes

This path covers critical, new vulnerabilities and exploits discovered - what they are, how to identify them in your environment, and what risks are of concern to cybersecurity professionals. Next, it discusses popular topics in Hot Takes! Security experts weigh in and give opinions on the recent breaches, emerging technologies or techniques that may, or may not, change the landscape of cybersecurity and technology.

ACM TechTalks

Empirical Software Design: When & Why

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Empirical Software Design: When & Why," presented by software engineer Kent Beck. Margaret-Anne Storey, a professor of computer science and a Canada Research Chair in human and social aspects of software engineering, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

ACM TechTalks

Angelica Lo Duca TechTalk

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Applying Cinematic Techniques to Data Storytelling," presented by Angelica Lo Duca, Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy. Victor Yocco, Director of Research and Strategy at Allelo Design, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

Discover ACM Selects - Shortlists of Learning Resources Curated by Experts

ACM Selects are themed shortlists curated by subject matter experts for both serious and emerging computing professionals, with the goal of providing new ways to discover relevant resources. Please visit our archive of Selects on a variety of subjects which is available here.

ACM Case Studies

Written by leading domain experts for software engineers, ACM Case Studies provide an in-depth look at how software teams overcome specific challenges by implementing new technologies, adopting new practices, or a combination of both. Often through first-hand accounts, these pieces explore what the challenges were, the tools and techniques that were used to combat them, and the solution that was achieved.

ACM Distinguished Speakers Program

The Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) is one of ACM's most valued outreach programs, providing universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and local ACM chapters with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry. ACM will cover the cost of transportation for the speaker to travel to your event.