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Computing Research Association

Job board

Career Development

CRA bulletin
Computing Research News (CRN) newsletter
Survey (enrollment, production, employment of PhD’s)
Report on CS enrollment surge
Within-CRA groups
- Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (diversity initiative)
- Status of Women in Computing Research
- Computing Community Consortium
- Underrepresented Minorities & Persons with Disabilities (URMD) Grad Cohort

Professional Development

Summit on Technology and Jobs (slides can be downloaded)-
- Technology, jobs, and wages
- The coming transformation of the retail industry
- Autonomous-vehicle technology
- Preparing for the future of AI
- Technology and labor: the urban/rural divide
Biennual Career Mentoring Workshop (sessions include: planning your research career, networking, teaching & mentoring students, preparing a tenure package, work-life balance, advice from early-career professionals, writing grant proposals)
URMD workshop (for underrepresented minorities)
- Sessions include: finding a research topic, industry vs academic positions, Master’s vs PhD, verbal communication skills, overcoming cultural barriers, financing grad school, entrepreneurship
Other helpful links
- Guide to publishing scholarly articles & the process
- Reports on Research Issues
- Workforce Reports
- Best practice memos
- CONQUER (resources for faculty and undergraduate students interested in research, graduate school, and research careers in computer science)

Association for Computing Machinery

Job board (categories: hardware, emerging technologies, network & IT, mobile & wireless, education & research, AI, content management & security, programming & applications, human-computer interaction, operations, etc.)

Career Development

Careers blog
- Ex-Googler Kiarash Asar on optimizing for passion
- Getting the CS job you deserve
- Academic job search: how to prepare key documents
- The academic job search: the job talk, interviewing
- When communication trumps coding
- How to get hired at a startup as a software developer
Interviews with leading professionals
- Avi Loeb, Director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative & Harvard Institute for Theory and Computation
- Robert Cohen, Economic Strategy Institute
- Mike Tamir, Head Data Science, Uber AGT
- Naomi Lee, Executive Editor, Digital at the Lancet
- Pedro Domingos, Top AI professor, University of Washington
- Irakli Beridze, Head of the United Nations Centre for Intelligence and Robotics
Resource portal for graduating students
Communications of the ACM: flagship publication of ACM
ACM Queue: magazine written by and for practitioners
Podcast Series (focused on computing across disciplines)
- Computing and environmental science
- Smart and connected health
- Anthropology and high-performance Computing
- Computing and neuroscience

Professional Development

XRDS Crosswords (ACM magazine for students)
- Events listing
- Blogs on topics such as:
  - How to write a research poster
  - How to learn programming languages
  - How to deal with stress as a PhD student
  - In praise of soft skills
Digital library (repository of resources)
- Can search by subfield (e.g., human computer interactions, AI/ML, security & privacy, information systems, software engineering, graphics & computer design, etc.)
Communications of the ACM
Learning center
- Safari Learning platform (over 50,000 total learning artifacts): topics include communication technology, databases, digital media, DIY & hardware, enterprise business applications, entrepreneurship, game development, operating systems & server applications, programming languages, project management, software development, web development
- Elsevier ScienceDirect (over 1,200 online books) topics include AI, computational theory, computer graphics, computer networks, applications, computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, human-computer interaction, information systems signal processing, software
- Skillsoft Learning Collections (1,750+ online courses, 4,800+ eBooks, 30,000 short videos): topics include business skills, cloud computing, cybersecurity, graphics and design, software design and development, systems programming,
  - Vendor certification training: (ISC)², Amazon, BCS (ISTQB), C++, Cisco, CompTIA, ISACA, ITIL, Linux, Microsoft, Oracle, Prince2, Project Management, RedHat, SAS, VMware, TOGAF
- Other member benefits
  - Access to Teradata University Network
  - Access to ITPro upgrade (15,000+ books)
  - Stevens Institute of Technology (discounts)
  - Dell EMC certification exams (discounts)
  - NYU Tandon online (discounts)
Webinars & TechTalks (topics such as–)
- The Bayesian zig zag: developing probabilistic models using grid methods and MCMC
- Designing an ML minded product and a product minded ML system
- Concurrent object oriented programming
- Explainable machine learning models
- Project Jupyter: from computational notebooks to large scale data science with sensitive data
Summer School on Data Science
Ubiquity’s Communication Center (to help improve writing and speaking skills)
- Banishing the fear of public speaking
- How to make dull information exciting
- First write like you speak, then write like you write
ACM local meetups

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society

Job board
Digital Library (>700,000 articles)
Online courses (>50 courses in topics such as software engineering, big data, cloud computing, multi-core, cybersecurity, DevOps, embedded systems, IoT, wearables, security)
Resource center
Certifications (associate software developer, professional software developer, professional software engineering master)