In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recipient Wen-Mei Hwu, Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was recognized for pioneering and foundational contributions to the design and adoption of multiple generations of processor architectures. His fundamental and pioneering contributions have had a broad impact on three generations of processor architectures: superscalar, VLIW, and throughput-oriented manycore processors (GPUs). Other honors and recognitions include the 1999 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2006 ISCA Most Influential Paper Award, 2014 MICRO Test-of-Time Award, and 2018 CGO Test-of-Time Award. He is the co-author, with David Kirk, of the popular textbook Programming Massively Parallel Processors.

Register now for a special free ACM-SIGHPC TechTalk, "Developing Vascular Digital Twins to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Care," presented on Wednesday, October 30 at 12:00 PM ET/16:00 UTC by 2023 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Amanda Randles, Professor at Duke University. ACM Distinguished Scientist Michela Taufer, Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

This book guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You’ll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks. It takes you inside the AI black box to tinker with the internal systems that power generative AI. As you work through each key stage of LLM creation, you’ll develop an in-depth understanding of how LLMs work, their limitations, and their customization methods. Your LLM can be developed on an ordinary laptop, and used as your own personal assistant.

This course discusses how a trusted Github collaborator implanted a backdoor into a popular Linux software tool used for compressing software packages such as release tarballs, kernel images and initramfs images, amongst other things. We’ll cover why it’s important and how you can risk-assess your exposure, as well as providing guidance on how to mitigate the risk.

In this Practice Labs title, the fundamentals of specific cloud services will be explored using practical exercises. To complete the modules, an AWS cloud subscription will be provided without signing up using your own login credentials..

This path will take you from having a basic knowledge of modern JavaScript and HTML, to being a productive developer building web apps that provide a wide range of functionality to browser users. You will develop the skills necessary to make those apps run efficiently in the browser, be easy to maintain, as well as being secure and completely testable such that maintenance is easy, and with minimal costs.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Lessons Learned from Building GitHub Copilot(s)," presented by Eddie Aftandilian, Principal Researcher at GitHub Next. Rahul Pandita, Staff Researcher at GitHub Next, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation: What Is It and Why Should You Pay Attention," presented by Abhinav Kimothi, Co-Founder and VP of AI at Yarnit. Marlene Mhangami, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, moderated the the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on  ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "From ML Engineering to AI Engineering," presented by Chip Huyen, bestselling author and Vice President of AI and Open-Source Software at Voltron Data. Alejandro Saucedo, Director of Engineering, Science & Product at Zalando SE, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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