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The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is currently around 78,000. Its headquarters are in New York City. Image File history File links ACM_4C_vector_80. ...
1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations. ...
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Activities
The ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 34 special interest groups (SIGs), through which it conducts most of its activities. An advocacy group, interest group or lobbying group is a group, however loosely or tightly organized, doing advocacy: those determined to encourage or prevent changes in public policy without trying to be elected. ...
SIG can refer to: Special Interest Group. ...
Many of the SIGs, like SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN and SIGCOMM, sponsor regular conferences which have become famous as the dominant venue for presenting new innovations in certain fields. The SIGs also publish a large number of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters. Founded in 1969, ACM SIGGRAPH is the New York-based Association for Computing Machinerys Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. ...
SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinerys Special Interest Group on programming languages. ...
SIGCOMM is the Association for Computing Machinerys Special Interest Group on Data Communications, which specializes in the field of communication and computer networks. ...
ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), and has sponsored some other very mentionable events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer. ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM/ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual activity of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. ...
Deep Blue was IBMs chess playing computer. ...
Services ACM Press publishes a prestigious academic journal, Journal of the ACM, and general magazines for computer professionals, Communications of the ACM and Queue. Many of the great debates in the history of computing have taken place in the pages of Communications. Examples include the famous "GOTO considered harmful" letter, the issue of what to call the then-fledgling field of computer science, and the issue of changing ACM's name (since the "machinery" in question is no longer the size of a house and is now measured in micrometres). All three attempts at changing ACM's name have failed. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ...
Communications of the ACM (CACM) is the flagship monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. ...
ACM Queue is a computer magazine published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ...
Goto may mean: GOTO (also known as Goto or Go to) – a branching construct in programming languages, infamous for its role in unstructured dialects of BASIC Goto, Nagasaki – a Japanese city G0-T0 (note: the characters following the G and T, respectively, are zeros), alias his coverup identity of Goto...
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ACM has made almost all of its publications available online at its Digital Library and also has a Guide to Computing Literature. It also offers insurance and other services to its members.
Digital Library ACM has created a digital library where it has made all of its publications available. ACM’s digital library is the world’s largest collection of information on computing machinery and contains an archive of journals, magazines, conference proceedings online, and the recent issues of ACM’s publications. Online services include a forum called Ubiquity and Tech News digest, both containing the latest information about the IT world.
Competition ACM's primary competitor is the IEEE Computer Society. It is difficult to generalize accurately about the distinction between the two, but ACM focuses on theoretical computer science and end-user applications while IEEE focuses more on hardware and standardization issues. Another blunt way to state the difference is that ACM is for computer scientists and IEEE is for electrical engineers, although the largest IEEE subgroup is its Computer Society. Of course, there is significant overlap between the two organizations, and they occasionally cooperate on projects like developing computer science curricula. An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with electronics engineering. ...
Leadership The President of the ACM for 2004–2006 is David A. Patterson of the University of California, Berkeley, USA. David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977. ...
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ...
Infrastructure ACM has four “Boards” that make up various committees and subgroups, to help Headquarters staff maintain quality services and products. These boards are as follows: - Publications
- SIG Governing Board
- Education
- Membership Services Board
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. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 - April 6, 2003) was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois, She grew up in Palatine, Illinois, Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Mukilteo, Washington. ...
See also This article presents a detailed timeline of events in the history of computing from 750 BC until 1949. ...
The ACM Computing Classification Sheme is a subject classification system for the computing field developed by the ACM. The system uses a three-level tree, plus a fourth subject descriptor level. ...
Although many awards have added Grace Hoppers name to them since her death in 1992, the original Grace Murray Hopper Awards have been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 1971. ...
The A.M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. ...
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External links - ACM official website
- ACM portal for publications
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