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Association for Computing Machinery
Formation1947
Type501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation
HeadquartersNew York City
Membership
100,000
President
Alain Chesnais
Websitehttp://www.acm.org

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious [1] scientific and educational computing society. It is a non-for-profit professional membership group.[2] Its membership is more than 100,000 as of 2011. Its headquarters are in New York City. ACM and the IEEE Computer Society are the primary US umbrella organizations for academic and scholarly interests in computing.

Unlike the IEEE, however, the ACM is solely dedicated to computing.

Activities

Street view of top half of skyscraper against the sky; its outside is dominated by vertical black and white lines
Two Penn Plaza site of the ACM headquarters in New York City

ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs), through which it conducts most of its activities. Additionally, there are over 500 college and university chapters. The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Many of the SIGs, like SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCSE and SIGCOMM, sponsor regular conferences which have become famous as the dominant venue for presenting innovations in certain fields. The groups also publish a large number of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters.

ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

Services

ACM Press publishes a prestigious[citation needed] academic journal, Journal of the ACM, and general magazines for computer professionals, Communications of the ACM (also known as Communications or CACM) and Queue. Other publications of the ACM include:

Although Communications no longer publishes primary research, and is not considered a prestigious venue, many of the great debates and results in computing history have been published in its pages.

ACM has made almost all of its publications available to paid subscribers online at its Digital Library and also has a Guide to Computing Literature. Individual members additionally have access to Safari Books Online and Books24x7. The ACM also offers insurance, online courses, and other services to its members.

Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library, a part of the ACM Portal, contains a comprehensive archive of the organization's journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Online services include a forum called Ubiquity and Tech News digest.

ACM requires the copyright of all submissions to be assigned to the organization as a condition of publishing the work.[4] Authors may post the documents on their own websites, but they are required to link back to the digital library's reference page for the paper. Though authors are not allowed to charge for access to copies of their work, downloading a copy from the ACM site requires a paid subscription.

Competition

ACM's primary historical competitor has been the IEEE Computer Society, which is the largest subgroup of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IEEE focuses more on hardware and standardization issues than theoretical computer science, but there is considerable overlap with ACM's agenda. They occasionally cooperate on projects like developing computing curricula.[5] Some of the major awards in Computer science are given jointly by ACM and the IEEE–CS.[6]

There is also a mounting challenge to the ACM's publication practices coming from the open access movement. Some authors see a centralized peer–review process as less relevant and publish on their home pages or on unreviewed sites like arXiv. Other organizations have sprung up which do their peer review entirely free and online, such as Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) and the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.

Membership grades

In addition to student and regular members, ACM has several advanced membership grades to recognize those with multiple years of membership and "demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers".[7]

Fellows

See also: Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery

The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1993 "to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM."

There are presently about 500 Fellows[8] out of about 60,000 professional members.

Other membership grades

In 2006 ACM began recognizing two additional membership grades. Senior Members have ten or more years of membership and demonstrated performance. Distinguished Engineers and Distinguished Scientists have at least 15 years of membership who "have made a significant impact on the computing field".

Chapters

ACM has three kinds of chapters: Special Interest Groups,[9] Professional Chapters, and Student Chapters.[10]

Special Interest Groups

  • SIGACCESS: Accessible Computing
  • SIGACT: Algorithms and Computation Theory
  • SIGAda: Ada Programming Language
  • SIGAPP: Applied Computing
  • SIGARCH: Computer Architecture
  • SIGART: Artificial Intelligence
  • SIGBED: Embedded Systems
  • SIGCAS: Computers and Society
  • SIGCHI: Computer–Human Interaction
  • SIGCOMM: Data Communication
  • SIGCSE: Computer Science Education
  • SIGDA: Design Automation
  • SIGDOC: Design of Communication
  • SIGecom: Electronic Commerce
  • SIGEVO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
  • SIGGRAPH: Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
  • SIGIR: Information Retrieval
  • SIGITE: Information Technology Education
  • SIGKDD: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • SIGMETRICS: Measurement and Evaluation
  • SIGMICRO: Microarchitecture
  • SIGMIS: Management Information Systems
  • SIGMM: Multimedia
  • SIGMOBILE: Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing
  • SIGMOD: Management of Data
  • SIGOPS: Operating Systems
  • SIGPLAN: Programming Languages
  • SIGSAC: Security, Audit, and Control
  • SIGSAM: Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
  • SIGSIM: Simulation and Modeling
  • SIGSOFT: Software Engineering
  • SIGSPATIAL: Spatial Information
  • SIGUCCS: University and College Computing Services
  • SIGWEB: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

Professional Chapters

As of 2011, ACM has professional chapters in 56 countries.[11]

These chapters include:

Student chapters

As of 2011, there exist ACM student chapters in 38 different countries.[12]

These chapters include:

Conferences

The ACM sponsors numerous conferences listed below. Most of the special interest groups also have an annual conference. ACM conferences are often very popular publishing venues and are therefore very competitive. For example, the 2007 SIGGRAPH conference attracted about 30000 visitors, and CIKM only accepted 15% of the long papers that were submitted in 2005.

The ACM is a co–presenter and founding partner of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.[17]

There are some conferences hosted by ACM student branches; this includes Reflections Projections, which is hosted by UIUC ACM.[citation needed]

Awards

The ACM presents or co–presents a number of awards for outstanding technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.[18]

Leadership

The President of the ACM for 2012–2014[19] is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet". He is the successor of Alain Chesnais (2010–2012[20]), a French citizen living in Toronto where he runs his company named Visual Transitions and Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.

ACM is led by a Council consisting of the President, Vice–President, Treasurer, Past President, SIG Governing Board Chair, Publications Board Chair, three representatives of the SIG Governing Board, and seven Members–At–Large. This institution is often referred to simply as "Council" in Communications of the ACM.

Infrastructure

ACM has five “Boards” that make up various committees and subgroups, to help Headquarters staff maintain quality services and products. These boards are as follows:

  1. Publications Board
  2. SIG Governing Board
  3. Education Board
  4. Membership Services Board
  5. Professions Board

ACM–W: Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women

ACM–W, the ACM's committee on women in computing, is set up to support, inform, celebrate, and work with women in computing. Dr. Anita Borg was a great supporter of ACM–W. ACM–W provides various resources for women in computing as well as high school girls interested in the field. ACM–W also reaches out internationally to those women who are involved and interested in computing.

Publications

In 1997, ACM Press published Wizards and Their Wonders: Portraits in Computing (ISBN 0897919602), written by Christopher Morgan, with new photographs by Louis Fabian Bachrach. The book is a collection of historic and current portrait photographs of figures from the computer industry.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Indiana University Media Relations". indiana.edu. Retrieved 2012–10–02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "ACM 501(c)3 Status as a group". irs.gov. Retrieved 2012–10–01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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  4. ^ "ACM Copyright Policy". Acm.org.
  5. ^ Joint Task Force of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Association for Information Systems (AIS) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE–CS). "Computing Curricula 2005: The Overview Report" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ See, e.g., Ken Kennedy Award
  7. ^ "ACM Senior Members–An Overview". Acm.org.
  8. ^ "List of ACM Fellows". Fellows.acm.org. Retrieved 2012–06–07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "ACM Special Interest Groups". Archived from the original on July 27, 2010 <!––DASHBot––>. Retrieved August 7, 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ "ACM Chapters". Retrieved August 7, 2010.
  11. ^ Professional Chapters http://campus.acm.org/public/chapters/geo_listing/index.cfm?ct=Professional&inus=0
  12. ^ Student Chapters http://campus.acm.org/public/chapters/geo_listing/index.cfm?ct=Student&inus=0
  13. ^ "Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)". Cikmconference.org.
  14. ^ "GECCO – 2009". Sigevo.org.
  15. ^ "Hypertext 2009". Ht2009.org.
  16. ^ "Joint Conference on Digital Library (JCDL)–Home". JCDL.
  17. ^ "Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Largest Gathering of Women in Computing, Attracts Researchers, Industry". Retrieved June 27, 2011.
  18. ^ "ACM Awards". Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  19. ^ "ACM Elects Vint Cerf as President". Acm.org. May 25, 2012.
  20. ^ "ACM Elects New Leaders Committed to Expanding International Initiatives". Acm.org. June 9, 2010.

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