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What is ACM? (1)
What Is ACM?
David Patterson
President of ACM
Presented at International Symposium on Computer Architecture June 2005
What is ACM? (2)
What is ACM?
• Association for Computing Machinery– Motto: “ACM and its members advance
computing as a science and as a profession.” • ACM Founded 1947
– ENIAC 1946: 1st electronic general-purpose computer– ENIAC 1947 Computer patent : Eckert & Mauchly– John Mauchly 1st ACM Vice President, 2nd President
• ACM now 80,000 members on 6 continents• How many were student members of ACM? • Have been (or are) regular ACM members?• How many are still ACM members?• How many IEEE/Computer Society members?
What is ACM? (3)
ACM services to field (1 / 2)
• 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs)– Group of like minded researchers– SIGARCH, SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN,… + small
ones from SIGACCESS (Accessible Computing for those with disabilities) to SIGWEB (Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web)
• Support 140 research conferences/ workshops, almost 40 peridodicals
• Digital Library – all ACM journal and conference papers online
from last 50 years
What is ACM? (4)
• Outreach – Computer Science Teachers Association (K to 12)– ACM-Women– Coalition to Diversify Computing (with IEEE, CRA)– International Collegiate Programming Contest – 500+ student chapters– 100+ local (regional) chapters: Bay Area ACM, BayCHI,
SFO SIGGRAPH, Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH,…
• Policy (US-ACM)– E.g., Gov’t funding of IT Research, voting machines
• 12 Annual Awards– Turing Award (“Nobel Prize”), Eckert-Mauchly (IEEE)
• Curriculum Standards & Accreditation
ACM services to field (2 / 2)
What is ACM? (5)
ACM Services to Individuals (1 / 4)
• $99 / year gets PDC, magazines, email redirect
• Professional Development Centre (PDC)– Lifelong learning is (now) up to individuals– PDC has 450 free IT Courses and 395 free Online
IT Books (and growing) with search, bookmarking– PDC not included in corporate subscription– Top 10: UML, C#, Project management, DB design,
…
What is ACM? (6)
ACM Services to Individuals (2 / 4)
• Magazines– Queue: every issue Slashdotted
• Email forwarding via acm.org– Doesn’t replace your favorite email service– Email that can follow you wherever you go– ACM address is protected with flexible,
Postini spam/virus filtering
What is ACM? (7)
ACM Services to Individuals (3 / 4)
• Extra $99/yr => Online access to ACM pubs from anywhere (vs. only inside organization)– Why waste 1 hour in library if reinvent in 6 weeks?
Top Rank Year1. 19912. 19883. 20034. 19905. 20016. 19807. 20028. 20029. 1976
10. 1989Most 10+ yrs
What is ACM? (8)
ACM Services to Individuals (4 / 4)
• Membership free at some companies– Google, Microsoft, … pays ACM membership fees
• AND saves money– Member discount for ACM conference > $99,
($100 for ISCA)so ACM memberships saves money if you go to at least 1 ACM conference per year or take at least 1 PDC course per year
What is ACM? (9)
Questions, Feedback, Suggestions on ACM?
• Please see me/send [email protected]
• Or SIGARCH leadership• Norman P. Jouppi
SIG Chair
[email protected] • Margaret Martonosi
SIG Vice Chair
[email protected]• Matthew Farrens
SIG Secretary/Treasurer
• SIGARCH Board of Directors:
• Joel Emer
[email protected]• Mark D. Hill
[email protected]• William J. Dally
[email protected]• Alan Berenbaum
