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.