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 [email protected].

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Dynamic Neural Network Compression for Scalable AI Deployment

Deploying cutting-edge AI systems requires large models that can dynamically adapt to changing hardware, bandwidth, and task demands. In this talk, Aditya Challapally, Applied Science Lead at Microsoft and Connected AI Group Lead at MIT Media Lab, will introduce Dynamic Neural Network Compression, a framework for real-time compression and decompression of deep learning models.

Attendees will gain practical insights into new techniques for scalable AI deployment across cloud and edge environments using this new system and file format, Automatic Decompression Instructions (.adi).

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.

Functional Programming in Financial Markets

Register now for the next free ACM TechTalk," Functional Programming in Financial Markets," presented on Wednesday, August 20 at 11:00 AM ET/15:00 UTC by José Pedro Magalhães, Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank. Jeremy Gibbons, Professor of Computing at Oxford University, will moderate the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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An Elementary Approach to Quantum Computing

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.

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