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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. 1947 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 computer was a person who computes. ...
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ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 34 special interest groups (SIGs), through which it conducts most of its activities. A special interest is a person, group, or organization attempting to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of one particular interest or issue. ...
A Sig is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post. ...
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). 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. ...
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. This page is about the programming command. ...
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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.
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. 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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Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ...
Of course, there is significant overlap between the two organizations, and they occasionally cooperate on projects like developing computer science curricula.
See also Portrait of Edsger Dijkstra (courtesy Brian Randell) Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Rotterdam, May 11, 1930 – Nuenen, August 6, 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist. ...
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. ...
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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. ...
External links For more information about ACM, see http://www.acm.org/.
For more information about the ACM ICPC, see http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/.
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