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Association for Computing Machinery

January 26, 2023

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 scientific and educational computing society.[1] The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group,[2] claiming nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022.[3] Its headquarters are in New York City.[4]

Association for Computing Machinery
Formation1947; 76 years ago (1947)
Type501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation
Headquarters1601 Broadway, Times Square,
New York City
Membership
110,000
President
Yannis Ioannidis
Websiteacm.org

The ACM is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science (informatics). Its motto is "Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession".

History

In 1947, a notice was sent to various people:[5][6]

On January 10, 1947, at the Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery at the Harvard computation Laboratory, Professor Samuel H. Caldwell of Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke of the need for an association of those interested in computing machinery, and of the need for communication between them. [...] After making some inquiries during May and June, we believe there is ample interest to start an informal association of many of those interested in the new machinery for computing and reasoning. Since there has to be a beginning, we are acting as a temporary committee to start such an association:

E. C. Berkeley, Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, N. J.
R. V. D. Campbell, Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Mass.
John H. Curtiss [de], Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.
H. E. Goheen, Office of Naval Research, Boston, Mass.
J. W. Mauchly, Electronic Control Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
T. K. Sharpless, Moore School of Elec. Eng., Philadelphia, Pa.
R. Taylor, Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass.
C. B. Tompkins, Engineering Research Associates, Washington, D.C.

The committee (except for Curtiss) had gained experience with computers during World War II: Berkeley, Campbell, and Goheen helped build Harvard Mark I under Howard H. Aiken, Mauchly and Sharpless were involved in building ENIAC, Tompkins had used "the secret Navy code-breaking machines", and Taylor had worked on Bush's Differential analyzers.[6]

The ACM was then founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, which was changed the following year to the Association for Computing Machinery.[7][8][9] The ACM History Committee since 2016 has published the A.M.Turing Oral History project, the ACM Key Award Winners Video Series, and the India Industry Leaders Video project.[10]

Activities

 
ACM headquarters are located at 1601 Broadway, Times Square, New York City.

ACM is organized into over 246 local professional chapters and 38 Special Interest Groups (SIGs), through which it conducts most of its activities. Additionally, there are over 833 college and university chapters.[citation needed] The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette[11][citation needed]

Many of the SIGs, such as SIGGRAPH, SIGDA, 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Services

Publications

Main category: Association for Computing Machinery publications

ACM publishes over 50 journals[12] including the prestigious[13] Journal of the ACM, and two 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. ACM also offers insurance, online courses, and other services to its members.

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.

Portal and Digital Library

The ACM Portal is an online service of the ACM.[16] Its core are two main sections: ACM Digital Library and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature.[17]

The ACM Digital Library is the full-text collection of all articles published by the ACM in its articles, magazines and conference proceedings. The Guide is a bibliography in computing with over one million entries.[16] The ACM Digital Library contains a comprehensive archive starting in the 1950s of the organization's journals, magazines, newsletters and conference proceedings. Online services include a forum called Ubiquity and Tech News digest. There is an extensive underlying bibliographic database containing key works of all genres from all major publishers of computing literature. This secondary database is a rich discovery service known as The ACM Guide to Computing Literature.

ACM adopted a hybrid Open Access (OA) publishing model in 2013. Authors who do not choose to pay the OA fee must grant ACM publishing rights by either a copyright transfer agreement or a publishing license agreement.[18]

ACM was a "green" publisher before the term was invented.[citation needed] Authors may post documents on their own websites and in their institutional repositories with a link back to the ACM Digital Library's permanently maintained Version of Record.

All metadata in the Digital Library is open to the world, including abstracts, linked references and citing works, citation and usage statistics, as well as all functionality and services. Other than the free articles, the full-texts are accessed by subscription.

There is also a mounting challenge to the ACM's publication practices coming from the open access movement.[citation needed] Some authors see a subscription business model 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, Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.

ACM has made its publications from 1951 to 2000 open access through its digital library on 7 April 2022 as part of its 75th anniversary of the organisation.[19]

Membership grades

Main category: Members of the Association for Computing Machinery

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".[20]

The number of Fellows, Distinguished Members, and Senior Members cannot exceed 1%, 10%, and 25% of the total number of professional members, respectively.[21]

Fellows

Main article: ACM Fellow
For a more comprehensive list, see List of 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 1310 Fellows as of 2020[22] out of about 100,000 members.

Distinguished Members

In 2006, ACM began recognizing two additional membership grades, one which was called Distinguished Members. Distinguished Members (Distinguished Engineers, Distinguished Scientists, and Distinguished Educators) have at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous ACM membership and "have made a significant impact on the computing field". Note that in 2006 when the Distinguished Members first came out, one of the three levels was called "Distinguished Member" and was changed about two years later to "Distinguished Educator". Those who already had the Distinguished Member title had their titles changed to one of the other three titles.

List of Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery [23]

Senior Members

Also in 2006, ACM began recognizing Senior Members. According to the ACM, "The Senior Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership, and technical or professional contributions".[24] Senior membership also requires 3 letters of reference

Distinguished Speakers

While not technically a membership grade, the ACM recognizes distinguished speakers on topics in computer science. A distinguished speaker is appointed for a three-year period. There are usually about 125 current distinguished speakers. The ACM website describes these people as 'Renowned International Thought Leaders'.[25] The distinguished speakers program (DSP) has been in existence for over 20 years and serves as an outreach program that brings renowned experts from Academia, Industry and Government to present on the topic of their expertise.[26] The DSP is overseen by a committee [27]

Chapters

ACM has three kinds of chapters: Special Interest Groups,[28] Professional Chapters, and Student Chapters.[29]

As of 2022, ACM has professional & SIG Chapters in 56 countries.[30]

As of 2022, there exist ACM student chapters in 41 countries.[31]

Special Interest Groups

Main category: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
  • SIGACCESS: Accessible Computing
  • SIGACT: Algorithms and Computation Theory
  • SIGAda: Ada Programming Language
  • SIGAI: Artificial Intelligence
  • SIGAPP: Applied Computing
  • SIGARCH: Computer Architecture
  • SIGBED: Embedded Systems
  • SIGBio: Bioinformatics
  • 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
  • SIGHPC: High Performance Computing
  • SIGIR: Information Retrieval
  • SIGITE: Information Technology Education
  • SIGKDD: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • SIGLOG: Logic and Computation[32]
  • 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

Conferences

Main category: Association for Computing Machinery conferences

ACM and its Special Interest Groups (SIGs) sponsors numerous conferences with 170 hosted worldwide in 2017. ACM Conferences page has an up-to-date complete list while a partial list is shown below. Most of the SIGs 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.[38]

Some conferences are hosted by ACM student branches; this includes Reflections Projections, which is hosted by UIUC ACM.[39] In addition, ACM sponsors regional conferences. Regional conferences facilitate increased opportunities for collaboration between nearby institutions and they are well attended.

For additional non-ACM conferences, see this list of computer science conferences.

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.[40][41][42]

Over 30 of ACM's Special Interest Groups also award individuals for their contributions with a few listed below.[46]

Leadership

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

The President of ACM for 2022–2024 is Yannis Ioannidis, Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.[47] He is successor of Gabriele Kotsis (2020–2022), Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz; Cherri M. Pancake (2018–2020), Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University and Director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (NACSE); Vicki L. Hanson (2016–2018), Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and visiting professor at the University of Dundee; Alexander L. Wolf (2014–2016), Dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Vint Cerf (2012–2014), American computer scientist and Internet pioneer; Alain Chesnais (2010–2012); and Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton, UK (2008–2010).[48]

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:[citation needed]

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

ACM Council on Women in Computing

Main article: ACM Council on Women in Computing

ACM-W,[49] the ACM council on women in computing, supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in computing. ACM–W's main programs are regional celebrations of women in computing, ACM-W chapters, and scholarships for women CS students to attend research conferences. In India and Europe these activities are overseen by ACM-W India and ACM-W Europe respectively. ACM-W collaborates with organizations such as the Anita Borg Institute, the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), and Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W). The ACM-W gives an annual Athena Lecturer Award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.[50] This program began in 2006. Speakers are nominated by SIG officers.[51]

Partner organizations

ACM's primary partner has been the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), which is the largest subgroup of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE focuses more on hardware and standardization issues than theoretical computer science, but there is considerable overlap with ACM's agenda. They have many joint activities including conferences, publications and awards.[52] ACM and its SIGs co-sponsor about 20 conferences each year with IEEE-CS and other parts of IEEE.[53] Eckert-Mauchly Award and Ken Kennedy Award, both major awards in computer science, are given jointly by ACM and the IEEE-CS.[54] They occasionally cooperate on projects like developing computing curricula.[55]

ACM has also jointly sponsored on events with other professional organizations like the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).[56]

Criticism

In December 2019, the ACM signed a letter[57] to President Trump opposing open access. A petition against this was formed and collected over a thousand signatures. In reaction to this, ACM clarified its position.[58][59]

The SoCG conference, while originally an ACM conference, parted ways with ACM in 2014[60] because of problems when organizing conferences abroad.[61]

See also

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Association for Computing Machinery news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message 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 scientific and educational computing society 1 The ACM is a non profit professional membership group 2 claiming nearly 110 000 student and professional members as of 2022 update 3 Its headquarters are in New York City 4 Association for Computing MachineryFormation1947 76 years ago 1947 Type501 c 3 not for profit membership corporationHeadquarters1601 Broadway Times Square New York CityMembership110 000PresidentYannis IoannidisWebsiteacm wbr orgThe ACM is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science informatics Its motto is Advancing Computing as a Science amp Profession Contents 1 History 2 Activities 3 Services 3 1 Publications 3 2 Portal and Digital Library 4 Membership grades 4 1 Fellows 4 2 Distinguished Members 4 3 Senior Members 4 4 Distinguished Speakers 5 Chapters 5 1 Special Interest Groups 6 Conferences 7 Awards 8 Leadership 9 Infrastructure 10 ACM Council on Women in Computing 11 Partner organizations 12 Criticism 13 See also 14 References 15 External linksHistory EditIn 1947 a notice was sent to various people 5 6 On January 10 1947 at the Symposium on Large Scale Digital Calculating Machinery at the Harvard computation Laboratory Professor Samuel H Caldwell of Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke of the need for an association of those interested in computing machinery and of the need for communication between them After making some inquiries during May and June we believe there is ample interest to start an informal association of many of those interested in the new machinery for computing and reasoning Since there has to be a beginning we are acting as a temporary committee to start such an association E C Berkeley Prudential Insurance Co of America Newark N J R V D Campbell Raytheon Manufacturing Co Waltham Mass John H Curtiss de Bureau of Standards Washington D C H E Goheen Office of Naval Research Boston Mass J W Mauchly Electronic Control Co Philadelphia Pa T K Sharpless Moore School of Elec Eng Philadelphia Pa R Taylor Mass Inst of Tech Cambridge Mass C B Tompkins Engineering Research Associates Washington D C The committee except for Curtiss had gained experience with computers during World War II Berkeley Campbell and Goheen helped build Harvard Mark I under Howard H Aiken Mauchly and Sharpless were involved in building ENIAC Tompkins had used the secret Navy code breaking machines and Taylor had worked on Bush s Differential analyzers 6 The ACM was then founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery which was changed the following year to the Association for Computing Machinery 7 8 9 The ACM History Committee since 2016 has published the A M Turing Oral History project the ACM Key Award Winners Video Series and the India Industry Leaders Video project 10 Activities Edit ACM headquarters are located at 1601 Broadway Times Square New York City ACM is organized into over 246 local professional chapters and 38 Special Interest Groups SIGs through which it conducts most of its activities Additionally there are over 833 college and university chapters citation needed The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette 11 citation needed Many of the SIGs such as SIGGRAPH SIGDA 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 citation needed 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 citation needed Services EditPublications Edit Main category Association for Computing Machinery publications ACM publishes over 50 journals 12 including the prestigious 13 Journal of the ACM and two general magazines for computer professionals Communications of the ACM also known as Communications or CACM and Queue Other publications of the ACM include ACM XRDS formerly Crossroads was redesigned in 2010 and is the most popular student computing magazine in the US ACM Interactions an interdisciplinary HCI publication focused on the connections between experiences people and technology and the third largest ACM publication 14 ACM Computing Surveys CSUR Computers in Entertainment CIE ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems JETC ACM Special Interest Group Computers and Society SIGCAS 15 A number of journals specific to subfields of computer science titled ACM Transactions Some of the more notable transactions include ACM Transactions on Algorithms TALG ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems TECS ACM Transactions on Computer Systems TOCS IEEE ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics TCBB ACM Transactions on Computational Logic TOCL ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction TOCHI ACM Transactions on Database Systems TODS ACM Transactions on Graphics TOG ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software TOMS ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications TOMM IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking TON ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems TOPLAS 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 ACM also offers insurance online courses and other services to its members 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 Portal and Digital Library Edit The neutrality of this section is disputed Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met December 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message The ACM Portal is an online service of the ACM 16 Its core are two main sections ACM Digital Library and the ACM Guide to Computing Literature 17 The ACM Digital Library is the full text collection of all articles published by the ACM in its articles magazines and conference proceedings The Guide is a bibliography in computing with over one million entries 16 The ACM Digital Library contains a comprehensive archive starting in the 1950s of the organization s journals magazines newsletters and conference proceedings Online services include a forum called Ubiquity and Tech News digest There is an extensive underlying bibliographic database containing key works of all genres from all major publishers of computing literature This secondary database is a rich discovery service known as The ACM Guide to Computing Literature ACM adopted a hybrid Open Access OA publishing model in 2013 Authors who do not choose to pay the OA fee must grant ACM publishing rights by either a copyright transfer agreement or a publishing license agreement 18 ACM was a green publisher before the term was invented citation needed Authors may post documents on their own websites and in their institutional repositories with a link back to the ACM Digital Library s permanently maintained Version of Record All metadata in the Digital Library is open to the world including abstracts linked references and citing works citation and usage statistics as well as all functionality and services Other than the free articles the full texts are accessed by subscription There is also a mounting challenge to the ACM s publication practices coming from the open access movement citation needed Some authors see a subscription business model 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 Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology ACM has made its publications from 1951 to 2000 open access through its digital library on 7 April 2022 as part of its 75th anniversary of the organisation 19 Membership grades EditMain category Members of the Association for Computing Machinery 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 20 The number of Fellows Distinguished Members and Senior Members cannot exceed 1 10 and 25 of the total number of professional members respectively 21 Fellows Edit Main article ACM Fellow For a more comprehensive list see List of 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 1310 Fellows as of 2020 update 22 out of about 100 000 members Distinguished Members Edit In 2006 ACM began recognizing two additional membership grades one which was called Distinguished Members Distinguished Members Distinguished Engineers Distinguished Scientists and Distinguished Educators have at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous ACM membership and have made a significant impact on the computing field Note that in 2006 when the Distinguished Members first came out one of the three levels was called Distinguished Member and was changed about two years later to Distinguished Educator Those who already had the Distinguished Member title had their titles changed to one of the other three titles List of Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery 23 Senior Members Edit Also in 2006 ACM began recognizing Senior Members According to the ACM The Senior Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership and technical or professional contributions 24 Senior membership also requires 3 letters of reference Distinguished Speakers Edit While not technically a membership grade the ACM recognizes distinguished speakers on topics in computer science A distinguished speaker is appointed for a three year period There are usually about 125 current distinguished speakers The ACM website describes these people as Renowned International Thought Leaders 25 The distinguished speakers program DSP has been in existence for over 20 years and serves as an outreach program that brings renowned experts from Academia Industry and Government to present on the topic of their expertise 26 The DSP is overseen by a committee 27 Chapters EditACM has three kinds of chapters Special Interest Groups 28 Professional Chapters and Student Chapters 29 As of 2022 update ACM has professional amp SIG Chapters in 56 countries 30 As of 2022 update there exist ACM student chapters in 41 countries 31 Special Interest Groups Edit Main category Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups SIGACCESS Accessible Computing SIGACT Algorithms and Computation Theory SIGAda Ada Programming Language SIGAI Artificial Intelligence SIGAPP Applied Computing SIGARCH Computer Architecture SIGBED Embedded Systems SIGBio Bioinformatics 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 SIGHPC High Performance Computing SIGIR Information Retrieval SIGITE Information Technology Education SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIGLOG Logic and Computation 32 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 WebConferences EditMain category Association for Computing Machinery conferences ACM and its Special Interest Groups SIGs sponsors numerous conferences with 170 hosted worldwide in 2017 ACM Conferences page has an up to date complete list while a partial list is shown below Most of the SIGs 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 AIES Conference on AI Ethics and Society ASPLOS International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 33 COMPASS International Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 34 DAC Design Automation Conference DEBS Distributed Event Based Systems 35 FAccT Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency FCRC Federated Computing Research Conference GECCO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 36 HT Hypertext Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia JCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 37 MobiHoc International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing SC Supercomputing Conference SIGCOMM ACM SIGCOMM Conference SIGCSE SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education SIGGRAPH International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques TAPIA Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 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 38 Some conferences are hosted by ACM student branches this includes Reflections Projections which is hosted by UIUC ACM 39 In addition ACM sponsors regional conferences Regional conferences facilitate increased opportunities for collaboration between nearby institutions and they are well attended For additional non ACM conferences see this list of computer science conferences Awards EditThe ACM presents or co presents a number of awards for outstanding technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology 40 41 42 ACM A M Turing Award ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award ACM Athena Lecturer Award ACM CSTA Cutler Bell Prize in High School Computing ACM Distinguished Service Award ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 43 ACM Eugene L Lawler Award ACM Fellowship awarded annually since 1993 44 ACM Gordon Bell Prize ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award ACM IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships ACM IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award ACM IEEE Eckert Mauchly Award ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award ACM Karl V Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award ACM Policy Award ACM Presidential Award ACM Prize in Computing formerly ACM Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award 45 ACM Student Research Competition ACM Software System Award International Science and Engineering Fair Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award SIAM ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering Over 30 of ACM s Special Interest Groups also award individuals for their contributions with a few listed below 46 ACM Alan D Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award ACM Maurice Wilkes Award ISCA Influential Paper AwardLeadership EditSee also Category Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Association for Computing Machinery news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message The President of ACM for 2022 2024 is Yannis Ioannidis Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 47 He is successor of Gabriele Kotsis 2020 2022 Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz Cherri M Pancake 2018 2020 Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University and Director of the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering NACSE Vicki L Hanson 2016 2018 Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and visiting professor at the University of Dundee Alexander L Wolf 2014 2016 Dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz Vint Cerf 2012 2014 American computer scientist and Internet pioneer Alain Chesnais 2010 2012 and Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton UK 2008 2010 48 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 EditACM has five Boards that make up various committees and subgroups to help Headquarters staff maintain quality services and products These boards are as follows citation needed Publications Board SIG Governing Board Education Board Membership Services Board Practitioners BoardACM Council on Women in Computing EditMain article ACM Council on Women in Computing ACM W 49 the ACM council on women in computing supports celebrates and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in computing ACM W s main programs are regional celebrations of women in computing ACM W chapters and scholarships for women CS students to attend research conferences In India and Europe these activities are overseen by ACM W India and ACM W Europe respectively ACM W collaborates with organizations such as the Anita Borg Institute the National Center for Women amp Information Technology NCWIT and Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research CRA W The ACM W gives an annual Athena Lecturer Award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science 50 This program began in 2006 Speakers are nominated by SIG officers 51 Partner organizations EditACM s primary partner has been the IEEE Computer Society IEEE CS which is the largest subgroup of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE The IEEE focuses more on hardware and standardization issues than theoretical computer science but there is considerable overlap with ACM s agenda They have many joint activities including conferences publications and awards 52 ACM and its SIGs co sponsor about 20 conferences each year with IEEE CS and other parts of IEEE 53 Eckert Mauchly Award and Ken Kennedy Award both major awards in computer science are given jointly by ACM and the IEEE CS 54 They occasionally cooperate on projects like developing computing curricula 55 ACM has also jointly sponsored on events with other professional organizations like the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM 56 Criticism EditIn December 2019 the ACM signed a letter 57 to President Trump opposing open access A petition against this was formed and collected over a thousand signatures In reaction to this ACM clarified its position 58 59 The SoCG conference while originally an ACM conference parted ways with ACM in 2014 60 because of problems when organizing conferences abroad 61 See also EditACM Classification Scheme Franz Alt former president Edmund Berkeley co founder Computer science Computing Bernard Galler former president Fellows of the ACM by year Fellows of the ACM category Grace Murray Hopper Award Presidents of the Association for Computing Machinery Timeline of computing hardware before 1950 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