Association for Computing Machinery
0Association for Computing Machinery, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2928 / CC BY SA 3.0
#Association_for_Computing_Machinery
#1947_establishments_in_the_United_States
#Computer_science-related_professional_associations
#International_learned_societies
#Organizations_established_in_1947
The Association for Computing Machinery （ACM） is a US-based international learned society for computing.
It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society.
The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group, claiming nearly 100,000 student and professional members as of 2019.
Its headquarters are in New York City.
The ACM is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science （informatics）.
Its motto is "Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession".
The ACM was founded in 1947 under the name Eastern Association for Computing Machinery, which was changed the following year to the Association for Computing Machinery.
ACM headquarters are located at 1601 Broadway, Times Square, New York City.
ACM is organized into over 171 local chapters and 37 Special Interest Groups （SIGs）, through which it conducts most of its activities.
Additionally, there are over 500 college and university chapters.
The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Many of the SIGs, such as SIGGRAPH, SIGDA, SIGPLAN, SIGCSE and SIGCOMM,
sponsor regular conferences, which have become famous as the dominant venue for presenting innovations in certain fields.
The groups also publish a large number of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters.
ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest （ICPC）, and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.
ACM publishes over 50 journals including the prestigious Journal of the ACM, and two gen...
Other Videos By all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
| 2021-12-06 | Economy of the British Virgin Islands |
| 2021-12-06 | Ahmed al-Haznawi |
| 2021-12-06 | Advanced Micro Devices |
| 2021-12-06 | Ansgar |
| 2021-12-06 | Cobble Hill Tunnel |
| 2021-12-06 | Ambiorix |
| 2021-12-06 | Abatis |
| 2021-12-06 | Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon |
| 2021-12-06 | Bay leaf |
| 2021-12-06 | Apollo 12 |
| 2021-12-06 | Association for Computing Machinery |
| 2021-12-06 | Hermann Kolbe |
| 2021-12-06 | Amputation |
| 2021-12-06 | Arnulf of Carinthia |
| 2021-12-06 | Aelia Capitolina |
| 2021-12-06 | Angus, Scotland |
| 2021-12-04 | Transport in Belgium |
| 2021-12-04 | Ames test |
| 2021-12-04 | Burgess Shale |
| 2021-12-04 | Apollo 17 |
| 2021-12-04 | National Alliance (Italy) |