ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics podcast, Sabrina Hsueh and Li Zhou host AI safety and ethics expert Ray Eitel-Porter, Luminary and Senior Advisor for AI at Accenture and an Intellectual Forum Senior Research Associate at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge. Previously, he served as Accenture's Global Responsible AI Lead.

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts software development productivity expert Nicole Forsgren, Senior Director of Developer Intelligence at Google. Forsgren co-founded DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), a Google Cloud team that utilizes opinion polling to improve software delivery and operations performance. Forsgren also serves on the ACM Queue Editorial Board.

Registration is officially open for CI + HCOMP 2026. Workshops, CrowdCamp, and Doctoral Consortium will take place throughout the day on Sunday, Sep 27. The full conference begins with a reception on Sunday evening, Sep 27 and continues through Wednesday, Sep 30. Conference Registration Fees For the Full Conference (Sep 27-30), we have registration categories for ACM members, non-member professionals, and students. Student registrations must provide proof of student status. All fees in USD.

In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics podcast, Sabrina Hsueh and Li Zhou host Monica Bertagnolli, a surgical oncologist, physician-scientist, and President Elect of the National Academy of Medicine—the first woman to hold that position in NAM’s history.

August 25, 2026 How did you initially become interested in database systems? Sometimes the most important and decisive steps in life seem to happen randomly, but retrospectively seem inevitable. As a first-semester student of computer science, I worked as a student assistant during the time of a fledgling internet without the World Wide Web and PDF files.

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, host Juan Miguel de Joya welcomes 2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award recipient Ricardo Baeza-Yates, the Search Chief Scientist at You.com, holding part-time professor appointments at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain), and Universidad de Chile.

August 11, 2026 While Go is known for its simplicity, speed, and scale, you’ve stated that the primary goal in creating the language was figuring out how to effectively program multicore networked systems. Why was this an important challenge at the time? How has the development of cloud computing coincided with Go’s growth? The initial goal for Go was to provide a better programming environment for the kinds of software engineering being done at Google circa 2007.

July 30 , 2026 Broadly speaking, what is graph theory and why is it an especially useful tool in computer programming projects? Graph theory is the mathematical study of networks. A graph consists of vertices, which represent objects; and edges, which represent relationships or connections between them.

The co-located 2026 ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence (CI 2026) and 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment (HCOMP 2026) offer two travel grant opportunities to support attendee participation in Alexandria, Virginia (September 27–30, 2026). NSF Student Travel Grant: For undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at US-based institutions.

In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Eric Allman, a foundational figure of the early Internet as the developer of Sendmail and its precursor Delivermail (for the original ARPANET) in the late 1970s at UC Berkeley. Sendmail is the mail transfer agent that powered a large portion of global email infrastructure through the formative years of the network and helped shape how messages move across the web.