Renowned International Thought Leaders Speaking on the Most Important Topics in Computing Today
ACM Speakers represent a broad range of companies, colleges and universities, including: IBM, Microsoft, BBN Technologies, Raytheon, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Siemens Information Systems, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, University of British Columbia, Georgia Tech, UCLA, McGill University, Tsinghua University and many more.
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Topics for Every Interest
Over 400 lectures are available from more than 125 speakers with topics covering Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Mobile Computing, and dozens more.
Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Gabriel Wainer
Gabriel Wainer is a Full Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. He is one of the founders of the SCS/ACM/IEEE Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation, SIMUTools, and SCS/ACM/IEEE SimAUD. Her is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), and is an SCS Fellow. His lectures include "Cellular Modeling with Cell-DEVS: A Discrete-Event Cellular Automata Formalism," "Modeling and Simulating Emerging Behaviour in Spatial Systems with Cell-DEVS," and more.
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ACM Distinguished Speaker lectures can turn your event into a dynamic and informative experience that your guests are sure to remember and learn from. View photos from talks by the renowned international thought leaders from ACM’s Distinguished Speaker program on the most important topics in computing today at a variety of venues around the world.
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