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ACM members and non-members alike are welcome to attend our popular series of free TechTalks by expert industry professionals, distinguished ACM award laureates, and visionary researchers from industry and academia. Focused on keeping our global audience of busy practitioners at the forefront of technical trends, professional development, and emerging technologies, the TechTalks are also popular with students and educators. Recent talks have covered topics in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Big Data and Data Science, Blockchain, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, JavaScript, Microservices, Python, Quantum Computing, and more. Registration is free and the TechTalks can be attended both live and on-demand, on desktop and mobile devices. Check this page frequently for upcoming events as well as our on-demand archive. To subscribe to our TechTalk announcements, email [email protected].
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Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design 2
Programming was once a female only field, all “computers” were women, many of color. However, that situation was short-lived, and today we live in a world in which almost all mainstream programming languages are created by men, many of a western background.
In this talk, Felienne Hermans, professor of computer science education at VU, and a creator of programming language Hedy discusses the history of programming languages and gender and her latest paper on feminism and programming language design.
She will reflect upon how programming language construction came to be so male dominated, and how with that also an overwhelming masculine discourse was formed. Drawing on work from feminism and Science and Technology Studies (STS), Hermans explores what the impact of the masculine discourse is for the design of programming languages. She closes the talk with a sketch of what a different world for programming languages could look like, both in the context of her own Hedy language, and beyond.
ACM Learning Center TechTalk Archive
ACM award winners, leading researchers, industry veterans, thought leaders, and innovators address today and tomorrow's hottest topics and issues in computing for busy practitioners, as well as educators, students, and researchers. Check out our archive of these ACM TechTalks, free for members and non-members alike.
TechTalks on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Talks from some of the leading visionaries and bleeding-edge researchers in AI/ML: Fei-Fei Li on visual intelligence in computers and ImageNet; Eric Horvitz on AI solutions in the open world; and Tom Mitchell on using ML to study how the brain creates and represents language.
Quantum Programming in Depth: Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Quantum Computing
Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk, "Quantum Programming in Depth: Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Quantum Computing," presented on Thursday, September 18 at 1:00 PM ET/17:00 UTC by Mariia Mykhailova, Principal Quantum Software Developer at PsiQuantum.Gideon Uchehara, PhD student and intern at PsiQuantum, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.
Functional Programming in Financial Markets
View the recent ACM TechTalk," Functional Programming in Financial Markets," presented by José Pedro Magalhães, Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank. Jeremy Gibbons, Professor of Computing at Oxford University, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.
