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2025

12 February 2025 :

Unlock Hugging Face: Simplify AI with Transformers, LLMs, RAG, Fine Tuning with Wei-Meng Lee

23 January 2025 :

Testing the System: A Holistic Approach to Security in Systems Development with Scott Tilley

2024

12 December 2024 :

Research to Reality: Building Production Ready LLM Apps Users Can Trust with Rush Shahani

14 November 2024 :

Product Management in the AI Era with Christine Robson

30 October 2024 :

Developing Vascular Digital Twins to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Care with Amanda Randles

2 October 2024 :

Lessons Learned from Building GitHub Copilots with Eddie Aftandilian

12 September 2024 :

Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation with Abhinav Kimothi

20 August 2024 :

Software Product Management: From Opinions to Data Driven Experimentation with Jan Bosch

27 June 2024 :

From ML Engineering to AI Engineering with Chip Huyen

5 June 2024 :

Understanding the LLM Development Cycle: Building, Training, and Finetuning with Sebastian Raschka

8 May 2024 :

Design is Testability with Titus Winters

13 March 2024 :

Programming Distributed Systems with Mae Milano

13 February 2024 :

Fireside Chat with Entrepreneur/Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla

24 January 2024 :

The Impact of ML/AI on Networking and the Internet Over the Last Decade with JP Vasseur

2023

20 December 2023 :

Redefining Human AI Interaction in Programming with Sandeep Kaur Kuttal

5 December 2023 :

Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces with Maneesh Agrawala

2 November 2023 :

The Medium Term Future of Evolutionary Architecture with Rebecca Parsons

27 September 2023 :

Creating Local First Collaboration Software with Automerge with Martin Kleppmann

23 August 2023 :

Ethical and Responsible Large Language Models Challenges and Best Practices with Nicole Konigstein and Miquel Noguer i Alonso

27 July 2023 :

Reskilling to Build Diverse Tech Teams

21 June 2023 :

LLMs: A New Way to Teach Programming with Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter

31 May 2023 :

Correctness by Construction How Can We Build Better Software with Ina Schaefer

9 May 2023 :

Large Language Models and the End of Programming with Matt Welsh

20 April 2023 :

Individual Contributor to Software VP Four Career Transitions, Many Challenges with Steve McConnell

29 March 2023 :

Future of DevOps with Sasha Rosenbaum

7 March 2023 :

State of Data Mesh with Zhamak Dehghani

15 February 2023 :

Effective Developer Testing with Mauricio Aniche

25 January 2023 :

Reduce System Complexity with Data Oriented Programming with Yehonathan Sharvit

2022

7 December 2022 :

An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking with Raquel Urtasun

26 October 2022 :

Tradeoffs in the Software Workflow with Titus Winters

26 September 2022 :

The Evolution of Accessibility with Jenny Lay-Flurrie

27 July 2022 :

Seismic Shifts Challenges and Opportunities in the 'Post ISA' Era of Computer Systems Design with Margaret Martonosi

30 June 2022 :

Secure Computation in Practice with Raluca Ada Popa

8 June 2022 :

The Past, Present, and Future of Supply Chain Security with Dan Lorenc

11 May 2022 :

Lessons From the Fifty Year Quest to Turn Programmers into Software Engineers with Adam Barr

14 April 2022 :

Instant Memory Training for Tech Success - The ABCs and 123s for Developing a Powerful Memory with Chester Santos

16 March 2022 :

Deep Learning for Sequences in Quantitative Finance with David Kriegman

10 March 2022 :

Visual Data Analysis: Why? When? How? with Pat Hanrahan and Tamara Munzner

3 February 2022 :

Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters

11 January 2022 :

The Art of Concurrency in Go with Johnny Boursiquot

2021

1 December 2021 :

The Essence of Software (Or Why Systems Often Fail by Design, and How to Fix Them) with Daniel Jackson

11 November 2021 :

Getting Started with Kubernetes with Nigel Poulton

26 October 2021 :

Machine Learning for Algorithm Design with Maria Florina Balcan

6 October 2021 :

Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence with Manish Gupta

9 September 2021 :

Quantum Computational Supremacy with Scott Aaronson

11 August 2021 :

Running Linux Apps on Windows: How and Why? with Scott Hanselman

22 July 2021 :

Turing Lecture 2021: Abstractions, Their Algorithms, and Their Compilers

12 July 2021 :

Learning from Data: The Two Cultures with Adji Bousso Dieng

7 June 2021 :

Learning Symbolic Equations with Deep Learning with Shirley Ho

20 May 2021 :

Horizontal Leadership: Practical Lessons for Driving Company-Wide Strategy and Action with Eve Andersson

13 April 2021 :

Democratizing AI: Creating Cognitive AI Assistants with No Coding with Michelle Zhou

25 March 2021 :

An Industry Perspective on What We Should Be Teaching Our Next Generation of Software Practitioners in the Universities with Paul McMahon

4 March 2021 :

The Four PEGS of Requirements Engineering with Bertrand Meyer

11 February 2021 :

Reproducing 150 Research Papers and Testing Them in the Real World: Challenges and Solutions with Grigori Fursin

19 January 2021 :

Agent-Human Collaboration and Learning for Improving Human Satisfaction with Sarit Kraus

12 January 2021 :

ACM Queue Case Study Q&A: Always-On Time-Series Database with Theo Schlossnagle

2020

9 December 2020 :

Code Reviews - From Bottleneck to Superpower with Michaela Greiler

2 November 2020 :

It's Time Deep Learning Learned from Software Engineering with Jeremy Howard

14 October 2020 :

Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience with Moshe Vardi

22 September 2020 :

Performance (Really) Matters with Emery Berger

1 September 2020 :

Quantum Networks: From a Physics Experiment to a Quantum Network System with Stephanie Wehner

11 August 2020 :

How to Create Generalizable AI with Anima Anandkumar

24 July 2020 :

Abuses and Misuses of AI: Prevention vs. Reaction with Cristian Canton

8 July 2020 :

Apache Arrow and the Future of Data Frames with Wes McKinney

8 June 2020 :

Leveraging the ACM Code of Ethics Against Ethical Snake Oil and Dodgy Development with Don Gotterbarn and Marty Wolf

22 May 2020 :

Integrating AWS Lambda with Your Majestic Monolith with Luke Closs

30 April 2020 :

Data for Good: Ensuring the Responsible Use of Data to Benefit Society with Jeannette Wing

25 March 2020 :

The Decision-Making Side of Machine Learning: Computational, Inferential, and Economic Perspectives with Michael I. Jordan

26 February 2020 :

Fairness in Machine Learning with Tulsee Doshi

5 February 2020 :

OOPS! Learning From Surprise at Netflix with Lorin Hochstein

7 January 2020 :

Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership with Steve McConnell

2019

16 December 2019 :

PyTorch: A Modern Library for Machine Learning with Adam Paszke

13 November 2019 :

Recommender Systems: Beyond Machine Learning with Joseph Konstan

1 November 2019 :

Rust: In It for the Long Haul with Carol Nichols

29 August 2019 :

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture with Dave Patterson

1 August 2019 :

The Emerging Role of Mobile Computing in Health with Shwetak Patel

11 July 2019 :

The Power and Limits of Deep Learning with Yann LeCun

20 June 2019 :

The Joy of Functional Programming (for Data Science) with Hadley Wickham

4 June 2019 :

Agile Data Science: Achieving Salesforce-Scale Machine Learning in Production with Sarah Aerni

30 April 2019 :

The Exascale Computing Project and the Future of HPC with Doug Kothe

3 April 2019 :

The Future of Wireless and What It Will Enable with Andrea Goldsmith

7 March 2019 :

Building a Culture to Support Inclusive Design with Jen Devins

13 February 2019 :

The Bayesian Zig Zag: Developing Probabilistic Models Using Grid Methods and MCMC with Allen Downey

23 January 2019 :

Designing an ML Minded Product and a Product Minded ML System with Grace Huang

2018

4 December 2018 :

Break Into AI: Building a Career in Machine Learning with Andrew Ng

15 November 2018 :

Concurrent Object Oriented Programming with Bertrand Meyer

26 September 2018 :

Explainable Machine Learning Models for Healthcare AI

7 September 2018 :

Project Jupyter: From Computational Notebooks to Large Scale Data Science with Sensitive Data with Brian Granger

8 August 2018 :

From Media to Meaning: Classic Machine Learning with Blaise Agüera y Arcas

24 July 2018 :

Adversarial Machine Learning with Ian Goodfellow

12 July 2018 :

Scala Is for... Distributed Systems? Web Apps? Front-end Development? with Heather Miller

14 June 2018 :

Journey to a Real-Time Enterprise with Neha Narkhede

7 June 2018 :

Intro to Angular with Stephen Fluin

25 April 2018 :

History of Software Engineering with Grady Booch

28 March 2018 :

Is Blockchain a Branch of AI? with Toufi Saliba

9 March 2018 :

What Can Kotlin Do for Me? with Hadi Hariri

21 February 2018 :

Computing for Disasters with Robin Murphy

18 January 2018 :

Hierarchical Adversarially Learned Inference with Negar Rostamzadeh

9 January 2018 :

QISKit: A Swiss Army Knife for Quantum Computation with Jay Gambetta

2017

15 November 2017 :

Reactive Microsystems - The Evolution of Microservices at Scale with Jonas Boner

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Sarah Drasner TechTalk

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