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Society and the Computing Profession

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Haider Abbas – Islamabad, Pakistan

Editor's Perspective of Publishing Quality Research
Academic research publication in a journal plays a key role in knowledge dissemination and the career development of researchers. However, despite its importance, very minimal or negligible formal...

Ronald Michael Baecker – Toronto, ON, Canada

ACM MEMBERS: A CALL TO ACTION!
Our world has been animated and enriched by digital technologies used for creativity, collaboration, learning, health, politics, and commerce. Yet there is much that is...
ETHICAL TECH STARTUPS: CONVERSATIONS WITH FOUNDERS
This is a companion talk to ETHICAL TECH STARTUPS: PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS.

I shall interview the founder of a local tech startup success. For example,...
ETHICAL TECH STARTUPS: PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS

As of 2020, 14 if the world's 50 wealthiest billionaires made their money in technology. Microsoft alone has created over 10,000 millionaires. Unicorns are privately held startup...
WHAT SOCIETY MUST REQUIRE FROM AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, especially machine learning (ML) programs, are now being employed or proposed for use in:

a) scanning résumés to weed...

Emery D Berger – Amherst, MA, United States

How to Have Impact: Five Easy Pieces
Because my research group has had a pretty good record of getting the fruits of our research adopted “in the real world”, I often get asked how to get work adopted. In this...

Athman Bouguettaya – Sydney, NSW, Australia

Workshop on Writing for (top) Computer Science Journals
This workshop aims to train early career researchers and PhD students to write for top CS journals and convert conference papers into successful quality journal articles. Writing for journals...

Dan Garcia – Millbrae, CA, United States

Achieving CSforALL through the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)
At a time when computing is so much a part of all of our lives, has incredible job opportunities, and is so empowering, most students graduate high school without having had any introduction to...
Beauty and Joy of Computing 1-week Professional Development
The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) is a CS Principles (CSP) course developed at UC Berkeley, intended for high school juniors through university non-majors. It was twice chosen as...
Effective Teaching, Mentoring and Curriculum Development
(This talk is aimed at early-stage faculty, especially those from under-served groups)

There are many hats young faculty are asked to wear, yet most "how to be a...
Why Latino Students Need Computer Science Now
We all know that technology is profoundly changing the way we work, learn, communicate, and play. More significant is what this means for your students' futures and their ability to compete in...

Donald Gotterbarn – Johnson City, TN, United States

Being a Computer Professional: Technology in context
Understanding computing professionalism helps us manage the ethical and social outcomes of our technical decisions. This talk focus on recognizing and avoiding some of the traps of...
Computer Ethics and Technology
This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming
We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don't Work
Serious software failures plague our profession. Software testing and risk analysis can only impact certain factors to reduce software failures. Proactive methodologies and strategies that...
What to do about Ethics: Using the ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making for the Computing Professional (non-philosopher)
Decisions made by a computing professionals impact others. A goal of computing professionals is to minimize the negative impact of their decisions on all stakeholders. The ACM Code of Ethics helps...

Gernot Heiser – Sydney, NSW, Australia

How to Write a Great Paper
Publication in prestigious venues is key to academic impact, and in computer science this mostly means the top-tier conferences. These venues receive large number of submissions, resulting...

Letizia Jaccheri – Trondheim, Norway

Gender Issues in Computer Science Research, Education, and Society
This lecture addresses gender issues in CS from Research, Education, Society perspectives.

I start from UN Goal 5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and...

Sheldon H Jacobson – Urbana, IL, United States

Communicating Your Research to the Public: Things They Never Taught you School
Communicating scientific research to a broad audience has become aprerequisite for success in today’s academic environment. This presentation discusses numerous facets of academic...
Is Computational Redistricting and Algorithms the Solution to Gerrymandering?
Every 10 Years, the outcome of the United States Census leads to a reallocation of congressional seats, typically requiring state legislatures to redesign their congressional districts. This...

Jim Jansen – Doha, Qatar

The Perilous Journey of Journal Publishing
Publishing a research article is a journey! We will discuss challenges and advice on preparing, submitting, and revising research manuscripts to increase the probability of acceptance at a...

Seng Loke – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Living in an Automated City: Promises and Perils
What if (almost) every aspect of a city is automated, from transportation, waste management, maintenance, policing to urban gardening? Developments in AI and the Internet of Things technologies...

Sanjay Misra – Lagos, Nigeria

How to enter into THE World University rankings with fewer resources in developing nations
In the last few years, several universities from developing countries(specially from Africa)entered in Times Higher education. This presentation explains in detail each...
How to present your work for publishing in high impact computing Journals
Publications in top tire computing journals from authors from developing countries are very limited. One can also observe that excellent research outcomes are being published in...

San Murugesan – Sydney, NSW, Australia

Green IT and Sustainability: Addressing the Global Environmental Crisis Embracing Technology
The socio-economic developments around the world and peoples’ behavioural changes continue to contribute to increase in carbon-dioxide emission and environmental deterioration,...
The Golden Age of Digital Innovation and Disruption: How to Become an Innovator and Create Lasting Impact
We’re fortunate to be living in the age of ongoing digital innovations and disruption. Driven by advances in digital and other technologies, open and creative mindset, emergence of...

Junaid Qadir – Doha, Qatar

Engineering and Computing Education for the 21st Century
We live arguably in the most exciting period in human history for engineering in which advances in knowledge and abilities to process, communicate, and analyze large amounts of data has resulted...
How to Write A Paper That Readers Will Thank You For?Tips on Bringing Clarity to Writing
The ability to write clear prose to communicate ideas is an essential 21st century skill. Washington accord, the international accreditation agreement for undergraduate professional engineering...
Learning 101: What All Computing and Engineering Should Know About Learning
As we move into the third decade of the 21st century, the 2020s, the unprecedented rate of technological disruption and the short-lived nature of the specifics of engineering...
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
AI technology has revolutionized numerous disciplines but it also has significant use of abuse (e.g., deep fakes, social bots, profiling people, social discrimination). We have realized that...

Peter Robinson – Cambridge, United Kingdom

Of machines and men
Continuing improvements in computer technology are allowing machines to perform in ways that model human activity, to the extent that many people now treat machines as if they were...

Ashish Seth – Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Effect of COVID19 on Educational Sector
Pandemic has badly affected many sectors including Academics. According to UNESCO pandemic has adversely impact over 290 million students across 22 countries. The UNESCO estimates that...
Research Benchmarking: Tools to evaluate research journal and author Index
There is a growing demand for transparency and accountability in research evaluation, research agencies developed a comprehensive list of evaluation tools and techniques and explained when...

Carol J Smith – Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Implementing Ethics in Emerging Technologies
Ethics discussions abound, but translating “do no harm” into our work is frustrating at best, and obfuscatory at worst. We can agree that keeping humans safe and in control is...

Kim W. Tracy – Terre Haute, IN, United States

Software History - Specific topic to be chosen
This lecture covers a specific area of software's history and how it has evolved over time. The topics can range from early computers and their software (up to about 1955),...
Software History - Why is it important?
This lecture covers why it is important for computing professionals to study software history, includes a number of specific examples, and details how software history can be studied as part of an...

Tariq Zaman – Sibu,, Malaysia

Using Sketches to Communicate Interaction Protocols of an Indigenous Community
Reviews of research and development collaborations with indigenous communities have exhibited numerous challenges related to researcher–community interactions. Based on many accounts of...