Association for Computing Machinery
The
Association for Computing Machinery, or
ACM, was founded in
1947 as the world's first scientific and educational
computing society. It publishes a variety of magazines and technical
journals in
computer science; sponsors conferences in various areas of the field (notably
SIGGRAPH and
SIGCOMM) and other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). ACM also offers insurance and other services to its members.
See also: Turing Award.
For more information about ACM, see " class="external">http://www.acm.org/.
For more information about the ACM ICPC, see " class="external">http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/.