ACM TechTalks
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 learning@acm.org.
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Getting Started with Kubernetes with Nigel Poulton
Join best-selling author Nigel Poulton and learn what Kubernetes is, why it's central to the future of cloud-native infrastructure and applications, and what it means to your career. The live session will include live Q&A where all questions are good questions.
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.
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The Art of Concurrency in Go
Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk, "The Art of Concurrency in Go," presented on Tuesday, January 11 at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM PT by Johnny Boursiquot, Platform Observability Engineer at Salesforce's Heroku. Jon Calhoun, founder of Calhoun.io, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.
The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them)
View the recent ACM TechTalk, "The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them)", presented by Daniel Jackson, ACM Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at MIT. George Fairbanks, Software Engineer at Google, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.
