Getting Started Series

While it is challenging to deploy and maintain these systems, a properly implemented distributed system serves as a backbone for modern computing at scale.

For those considering a long-term career in technology leadership, understanding and managing relationships is equally important as one’s ability to tackle technology trends and code.

Whether it is building a simple app, accessing the WiFi in your local café or listening to a podcast, an important consideration that every technology user, engineer and service provider needs to be aware of is how secure the app or service they are either using or providing is.

Today, Computer Vision is important for everything from enabling autonomous vehicles to understand the world they are navigating, to using mobile phones to identify skin cancer, read a menu abroad in a foreign language, or identifying defective products in a manufacturing line.

There is a large gap between exploratory data science and building an intelligent application that continually learns from the data it encounters to provide business value. In this ACM Select, we highlight content to ease the transition from research to production and illuminate the hurdles you may come across in your journey.

Machine learning is the science of teaching computers how to accurately discover, contextualize and act on data through experience. This ACM Selects highlights several resources to build an understanding of the ideas, challenges and ways to get started in the field.