In this episode of ACM ByteCast, our special guest host Scott Hanselman (of The Hanselminutes Podcast) welcomes ACM Fellow Dawn Song, Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI), and Founder of Oasis Labs. Her research interest lies in AI safety and security, Agentic AI, deep learning, security and privacy, and decentralization technology. Dawn is the recipient of numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and more than 10 Test-of-Time awards and Best Paper awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She has been recognized as Most Influential Scholar (AMiner Award) for being the most cited scholar in computer security. Dawn is an IEEE Fellow and an Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also a serial entrepreneur and has been named on the Female Founder 100 List by Inc. and Wired25 List of Innovators. 

Register now  for the next free ACM TechTalk, "How to Extract Meaningful Insights from Data," presented on Tuesday, January 13 12:00 PM ET/17:00 UTC by Angelica Lo Duca, Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council, Italy. Victor Yocco, UX Researcher at ServiceNow, will moderate the questions and answers session. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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View  the recent ACM TechTalk, "A Look at AI Security with Mark Russinovich," presented by Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure. Scott Hanselman, Vice President of Developer Community at Microsoft and member of the ACM Practitioner Board, moderated the questions and answers session. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Translating Interview Speak: What Your Interviewer Really Wants to Know," presented by Professional Career Coach and Consultant Barbara Limmer and Professional Career Coach Laura Browne, authors of the new  Manning Publications book, Interview Speak. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Quantum Programming in Depth: Bringing Software Engineering Practices to Quantum Computing," presented by Mariia Mykhailova, Principal Quantum Software Developer at PsiQuantum.Gideon Uchehara, PhD student and intern at PsiQuantum, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design," presented by Felienne Hermans, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Mark Guzdial, Professor and Director for the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences at the University of Michigan, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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