association for computing machinery association for computing machineryformation1947 71years ago1947type501c3 notforprofit membership corporationheadquarters2 pennsylvania plazanew york citymembership 100000presidentcherri m pancakewebsiteacmorg the association for computing machinery acm is an international learned society for computing it was founded in 1947 and is the worlds largest scientific and educational computing society the acm is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science its motto is advancing computing as a science profession history the acm was founded in 1947 under the name eastern association for computing machinery which was changed the following year to the association for computing machinery activities two penn plaza site of the acm headquarters in new york city acm is organized into over 171 local chapters and 37 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 such as 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 publications main category association for computing machinery publications acm publishes over 50 journals 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 acm computing surveys csur acm computers in entertainment cie acm special interest group computers and society sigcas a number of journals specific to subfields of computer science titled acm transactions some of the more notable transactions include acm transactions on computer systems tocs ieeeacm transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics tcbb acm transactions on computational logic tocl acm transactions on computerhuman 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 ieeeacm 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 individual members additionally have access to safari books online and books24x7 acm also offers insurance online courses and other services to its members in 1997 acm press published wizards and their wonders portraits in computing isbn0897919602 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 its core are two main sections acm digital library and the acm guide to computing literature the acm digital library is the fulltext 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 the acm digital library contains a comprehensive archive starting in the 1950s of the organizations 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 acm was a green publisher before the term was invented authors may post documents on their own websites and in their institutional repositories with a link back to the acm digital librarys 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 fulltexts are accessed by subscription there is also a mounting challenge to the acms publication practices coming from the open access movement some authors see a centralized peerreview 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 fellows acm fellow and 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 since march 2015 there are about 958 fellows out of about 75000 professional 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 senior members also in 2006 acm began recognizing senior members senior members have ten or more years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous acm membership 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 threeyear period there are usually about 125 current distinguished speakers the acm website describes these people as renowned international thought leaders norman e gibbs served as the president of the acm chapters acm has three kinds of chapters special interest groups as of 2011 as of 2014 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 computerhuman 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 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 uptodate 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 asplos international conference on architectural support for programming languages and operating systems chi conference on human factors in computing systems sigcse sigcse technical symposium on computer science education cikm conference on information and knowledge management dac design automation conference debs distributed event based systems fcrc federated computing research conference gecco genetic and evolutionary computation conference sc supercomputing conference siggraph international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques hypertext conference on hypertext and hypermedia jcdl joint conference on digital libraries tapia richard tapia celebration of diversity in computing conference sigcomm acm sigcomm conference mobihoc international symposium on mobile ad hoc networking and computing the acm is a copresenter and founding partner of the grace hopper celebration of women in computing ghc with the anita borg institute for women and technology some conferences are hosted by acm student branches this includes reflections projections which is hosted by uiuc acm in addition acm sponsors regional conferences regional conferences facilitate increased opportunities for collaboration between nearby institutions and they are well attended for additional nonacm conferences see this list of computer science conferences awards the acm presents or copresents a number of awards for outstanding technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology acm a m turing award acm aaai allen newell award acm athena lecturer award acmcsta cutlerbell prize in high school computing acm distinguished service award acm doctoral dissertation award acm eugene l lawler award acm fellowship awarded annually since 1993 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 eckertmauchly 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 acm student research competition acm software system award international science and engineering fair outstanding contribution to acm award siamacm prize in computational science and engineering over 30 of acms special interest groups also award individuals for their contributions with a few listed below acm alan d berenbaum distinguished service award acm maurice wilkes award isca influential paper award leadership see also categorypresidents of the association for computing machinery the president of acm for 20182020 is cherri m pancake professor emeritus at oregon state university and director of the northwest alliance for computational science and engineering nacse she is successor of vicki l hanson 20162018 distinguished professor at the rochester institute of technology and visiting professor at the university of dundee alexander l wolf 20142016 dean of the jack baskin school of engineering at the university of california santa cruz vint cerf 20122014 an american computer scientist who is recognized as one of the fathers of the internet alain chesnais 20102012 a french citizen living in toronto ontario canada where he runs his company named visual transitions and dame wendy hall of the university of southampton uk 20082010 acm is led by a council consisting of the president vicepresident treasurer past president sig governing board chair publications board chair three representatives of the sig governing board and seven membersatlarge 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 publications board sig governing board education board membership services board practitioners board acm council on women in computing acmw the acm council on women in computing supports celebrates and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in computing acmws main programs are regional celebrations of women in computing acmw chapters and scholarships for women cs students to attend research conferences in india and europe these activities are overseen by acmw india and acmw europe respectively acmw 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 craw athena lectures the acmw gives an annual athena lecturer award to honor outstanding women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science 20062007 deborah estrin of ucla 20072008 karen sprck jones of cambridge university 20082009 shafi goldwasser of mit and the weitzmann institute of science 20092010 susan j eggers of the university of washington 20102011 mary jane irwin of the pennsylvania state university 20112012 judith s olson of the university of california irvine 20122013 nancy lynch of mit 20132014 katherine yelick of lbnl 20142015 susan dumais of microsoft research 20152016 jennifer widom of stanford university 20162017 jennifer rexford of princeton university cooperation acms primary partner has been the ieee computer society ieeecs 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 acms agenda they have many joint activities including conferences publications and awards acm has also jointly sponsored on events with other professional organizations like the society for industrial and applied mathematics siam computer science portal computing portal acm classification scheme computer science computing 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 2400 bc1949 turing award franz alt former president edmund berkeley cofounder bernard galler former president wikimedia commons 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