In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Bruke Kifle hosts ACM Distinguished Member Cecilia Aragon, Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab at the University of Washington (UW). She is the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap data structure, a binary search tree in which each node has both a key and a priority. She is also known for her work in data-intensive science and visual analytics of very large data sets, for which she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008. Prior to her appointment at UW, she was a computer scientist and data scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center, and before that, an airshow and test pilot, entrepreneur, and member of the United States Aerobatic Team. She is a co-founder of Latinas in Computing.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Quantum Programming in Depth: Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Quantum Computing," presented by Mariia Mykhailova, Principal Quantum Software Developer at PsiQuantum.Gideon Uchehara, PhD student and intern at PsiQuantum, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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This book illustrates the principles and practices of outlier detection with diverse real-world examples including social media, finance, network logs, and other important domains. You’ll explore a comprehensive set of statistical methods and machine learning approaches to identify and interpret the unexpected values in tabular, text, time series, and image data. Along the way, you’ll explore scikit-learn and PyOD, apply key OD algorithms, and add some high value techniques for real world OD scenarios to your toolkit.

In this course, xplore the elements of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad, along with the essentials of authentication and using non-repudiation services. Next, examine what risk is and the terminology surrounding risk management, threats, and vulnerability. Finally, learn about risk assessment, identification, and treatment and compare qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. This course prepares learners for the (ISC)2 Certified in Cybersecurity exam.

In this Challenge Lab, you will create and manipulate data structures in R by using the RStudio development environment. First, you will create and access a vector in R, and then you will calculate the mean and median of a vector. Next, you will create a list object in R, and then you will manipulate elements of the list object. Finally, you will create a matrix, and then you will retrieve and modify selected data by using indexing.

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.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "An Elementary Approach to Quantum Computing," presented by Charlee Stefanski, Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, and Constantin Gonciulea, the leader of the Advanced Technology group at Wells Fargo. Alex Khan, Visiting Fellow at the University of Maryland National Quantum Laboratory, moderated the questions and answers session following the the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design," presented by Felienne Hermans, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Mark Guzdial, Professor and Director for the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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