Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Accretion Machinery (ACM) is a abstruse association for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's better and a lot of celebrated accurate and educational accretion society. Its associates is added than 100,000 as of 2011. Its address are in New York City. ACM and the IEEE Computer Association are the primary awning organizations for bookish and bookish interests in computing.

Unlike the IEEE, however, the ACM is alone committed to computing.

Activities

ACM is organized into over 170 bounded capacity and 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs), through which it conducts a lot of of its activities. Additionally, there are over 500 academy and university chapters. The aboriginal apprentice affiliate was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Many of the SIGs, like SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCSE and SIGCOMM, sponsor approved conferences which accept become acclaimed as the ascendant area for presenting innovations in assertive fields. The groups aswell broadcast a ample amount of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters.

ACM aswell sponsors added computer science accompanying contest such as the common ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), and has sponsored some added contest such as the chess bout amid Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

Services

ACM Press publishes a celebrated bookish journal, Account of the ACM, and accepted magazines for computer professionals, Communications of the ACM (also accepted as Communications or CACM) and Queue. Added publications of the ACM include:

ACM XRDS, aforetime "Crossroads" and renamed and advised in 2010, the a lot of accepted apprentice accretion annual in the US.

ACM interactions, an interdisciplinary HCI advertisement focused on the admission amid experiences, humans and technology, and the third better ACM publication.1

A amount of journals, specific to subfields of computer science, blue-blooded ACM Transactions. Some of the added arresting affairs include:

ACM Affairs on Computer Systems (TOCS)

ACM Affairs on Database Systems (TODS)

ACM Affairs on Graphics (TOG)

ACM Affairs on Mathematical Software (TOMS)

ACM Affairs on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)

Although Communications no best publishes primary research, and is not advised a celebrated venue, abounding of the abundant debates and after-effects in accretion history accept been appear in its pages.

ACM has fabricated about all of its publications accessible to paid subscribers online at its Digital Library and aswell has a Guide to Accretion Literature. Individual associates additionally accept admission to Safari Books Online and Books24x7. The ACM aswell offers insurance, online courses, and added casework to its members.

Digital Library

The ACM Agenda Library, a allotment of the ACM Portal, contains a absolute annal of the organization's journals, magazines, and appointment proceedings. Online casework cover a appointment alleged Ubiquity and Tech News digest.

ACM requires the absorb of all submissions to be assigned to the alignment as a action of publishing the work.2 Authors may column the abstracts on their own websites, but they are appropriate to hotlink aback to the agenda library's advertence page for the paper. Though authors are not accustomed to allegation for admission to copies of their work, downloading a archetype from the ACM website requires a paid subscription.

Competition

ACM's primary actual adversary has been the IEEE Computer Society, which is the better subgroup of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The IEEE focuses added on accouterments and acclimation issues than abstract computer science, but there is ample overlap with ACM's agenda. They occasionally abet on projects like developing accretion curricula.3 Some of the above awards in Computer science are accustomed accordingly by ACM and the IEEE-CS.4

There is aswell a ascent claiming to the ACM's advertisement practices advancing from the accessible admission movement. Some authors see a centralized peer-review action as beneath accordant and broadcast on their home pages or on unreviewed sites like arXiv. Other organizations accept sprung up which do their associate analysis absolutely chargeless 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 accession to apprentice and approved members, ACM has several avant-garde associates grades to admit those with assorted years of associates and "demonstrated achievement that sets them afar from their peers".5

editFellows

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

The ACM Fellows Program was accustomed by Council of the Association for Accretion Machinery in 1993 "to admit and account outstanding ACM associates for their achievements in computer science and advice technology and for their cogent contributions to the mission of the ACM."

There are anon about 500 Fellows6 out of about 60,000 able members.

editOther associates grades

In 2006 ACM began acquainted two added associates grades. Senior Associates accept ten or added years of associates and approved performance. Distinguished Engineers and Distinguished Scientists accept at atomic 15 years of associates who "have fabricated a cogent appulse on the accretion field".

Chapters

ACM has three kinds of chapters: Special Interest Groups,7 Able Chapters, and Apprentice Chapters. 8

editSpecial 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

editProfessional Chapters

As of 2011, ACM has able capacity in 56 countries.9

These capacity include:

Baltimore ACM Chapter (BACM)

Boston Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM (GBCACM)

District of Columbia ACM Chapter (DCACM)

editStudent chapters

As of 2011, there abide ACM apprentice capacity in 38 altered countries.10

These capacity include:

ACM Apprentice Chapter ISI Kolkata (ASCISIK)

Birla Institute of Technology Mesra (BIT-ACM)

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-ACM)

Brock University

California State University, Long Beach (CSULBACM)

California State University, Sacramento (CSUSACM)

College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University (AU CEG ACM)

Cornell University (ACSU)

Florida State University

Georgia Institute of Technology (GTACM)

Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (ACM@HITK)

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ACM@IITD

Johns Hopkins University (JHUACM)

Louisiana State University (ACM@LSU)

Mississippi State University

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (NUCES-ACM)

New Jersey Institute of Technology

North Carolina State University

Peirce College

Pennsylvania State University

Purdue University

PSG College of Technology (PSG Tech ACM)

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT ACM)

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

University at Buffalo (UB ACM)

University of Alabama in Huntsville

University of Arizona (UOFA ACM)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ACM)

University of California, San Diego (CSES)

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB ACM)

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC ACM)

University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC ACM)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC ACM)

University of Iowa

University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass ACM)

University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UofM)

University of the Philippines (UPACM)

University of Tehran (UTACM)

University of Texas, Austin (UTACM)

Universität Ulm

Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Western Washington University (WWU ACM)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPIACM)

Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering (YCCE)

Conferences

The ACM sponsors abundant conferences listed below. Most of the appropriate absorption groups aswell accept an anniversary conference. ACM conferences are generally actual accustomed publishing venues and are accordingly actual competitive. For example, the 2007 SIGGRAPH appointment admiring about 30000 visitors, and CIKM alone accustomed 15% of the continued affidavit that were submitted in 2005.

CHI: Appointment on Human Factors in Computing Systems

CIKM: Appointment on Information and Knowledge Management11

DAC: Design Automation Conference

FCRC: Federated Computing Research Conference

GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference12

SIGGRAPH: International Appointment on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Hypertext: Appointment on Hypertext and Hypermedia13

JCDL: Joint Appointment on Digital Libraries14

OOPSLA: Appointment on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications

WWW: World Wide Web Conference

The ACM is a co-presenter and founding accomplice of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.15

Awards

The ACM presents or co-presents a amount of awards for outstanding abstruse and able achievements and contributions in computer science and advice technology.16

A. M. Turing Award

ACM – Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences

Distinguished Service Award

Doctoral Dissertation Award

Eckert-Mauchly Award

Gordon Bell Prize

Grace Murray Hopper Award

Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award

ACM – IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

Eugene L. Lawler Award

Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award

Allen Newell Award

ACM Presidential Award

SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering

Software System Award

ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award

ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award

Leadership

The President of the ACM for 2010–201217 is Alain Chesnais, a French aborigine active in Toronto area he runs his aggregation called Visual Transitions. He is the almsman of 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 assembly of the SIG Governing Board, and seven Members-At-Large. This academy is generally referred to artlessly as "Council" in Communications of the ACM.

Infrastructure

ACM has 5 “Boards” that accomplish up assorted committees and subgroups, to advice Headquarters agents advance superior casework and products. These boards are as follows:

Publications Board

SIG Governing Board

Education Board

Membership Casework Board

Professions Board

ACM-W: Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women

ACM-W, the ACM's board on women in computing, is set up to support, inform, celebrate, and plan with women in computing. Dr. Anita Borg was a abundant adherent of ACM-W. ACM-W provides assorted assets for women in accretion as able-bodied as top academy girls absorbed in the field. ACM-W aswell alcove out internationally to those women who are complex and absorbed in computing.