Why Join ACM?

Join a worldwide organization with 78,000+ members on 6 continentsBenefit from 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs): big SIGs like SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN + small SIGs from SIGACCESS (Accessible Computing for those with disabilities) to SIGWEB (Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web)Learn from 100+ research conferences, 21+ journals, 4+ magazines, and Digital Library (DL): 57 years of ACM papers online Sponsor outreach via ACM-Women, Coalition to Diversify Computing (joint with IEEE-CS & CRA), International Collegiate Programming Contest, 500+ student chapters, 100+ local (regional) chapters, + new Computer Science Teachers Association (K-12) Aid advocacy (US-ACM), such as new policy on E-voting machines Support education via Curriculum Standards and AccreditationHelp honor computing via ACM Fellows + 12 Awards, including it’s “Nobel Prize,”

It’s the right thing to do! It’s a good return on your investment!

$99 / year gets Professional Development Centre (PDC), magazines, Email redirect

Lifelong learning is up to you in this fast moving field, so stay current via

Magazines like Queue (featured in Slashdot almost every month)

PDC with 450+ free IT Courses and 400+ free Online IT Books with search, bookmarking, …(PDC is not part of a DL site license)Lifelong email forwarding

Doesn’t replace favorite email serviceYourName@acm.org can use forever

ACM 57 years old and growing; Free email in 2020?

Saves money if you go to ≥ 1 ACM conf. / year as ACM discount > $99 or if you take ≥ 1 PDC course / year as course outside ACM costs > $99

May be free as some employers (e.g., Google, Microsoft) pay membership, yet you save them money if go to ≥ 1 ACM conf. or take ≥ 1 PDC course/year

Joiners Value-seekers

(From “Why Join ACM?,” CACM, Feb ’05, p. 14)

Are Program Committee Members of ACM Sponsored Conferences

also ACM Members?Dave Patterson

% of Program Committee in ACM: <25%, 26%-50%, 51%-75%, >76% ?

Sponsor Conf. Name % ACM Conference Title

SIGACT STOC’05 Theory of Computing

SIGARCH and IEEE CS

ISCA’05 Computer Architecture

SIGART, SIGACT and SIGMOD

PODS’05 Principles of Database Systems

SIGDA, & IEEE CASS/CANDE

DAC Design Automation

SIGMOBILE Mobicom’05 Mobile Computing and Networking

SIGMOD SIGMOD’05 Management of Data

SIGPLAN PLDI’05 Programming Language Design & Implementation

SIGPLAN OOPSLA Object-Oriented Programming, Sys., Lang. & Apps

Average

% of Program Committee in ACM: <25%, 26%-50%, 51%-75%, >76% ?

Sponsor Conf. Name % ACM Conference Title

SIGACT STOC’05 24% Theory of Computing

SIGARCH and IEEE CS

ISCA’05 71% Computer Architecture

SIGART, SIGACT and SIGMOD

PODS’05 68% Principles of Database Systems

SIGDA, & IEEE CASS/CANDE

DAC 21% Design Automation

SIGMOBILE Mobicom’05 53%Mobile Computing and Networking

SIGMOD SIGMOD’05 72% Management of Data

SIGPLAN PLDI’05 82%Programming Language Design & Implementation

SIGPLAN OOPSLA 62%Object-Oriented Programming, Sys., Lang. & Apps

Average 57%

% of Program Committee in SIG?

Sponsor Conf. Name % ACM % SIG Conference Title

SIGACT STOC’05 24% 29% Theory of Computing

SIGARCH and IEEE CS

ISCA’05 71% 75% Computer Architecture

SIGART, SIGACT and SIGMOD

PODS’05 68% 36% Principles of Database Systems

SIGDA, & IEEE CASS/CANDE

DAC 21% 18% Design Automation

SIGMOBILE Mobicom’05 53% 24%Mobile Computing and Networking

SIGMOD SIGMOD’05 72% 68% Management of Data

SIGPLAN PLDI’05 82% 82%Programming Language Design & Implementation

SIGPLAN OOPSLA 62% 62%Object-Oriented Programming, Sys., Lang. & Apps

Average 57% 49%

% US members of PC in ACM?

Sponsor Conf. Name % ACM % SIG (US only) Conference Title

SIGACT STOC’05 24% 29% 33% Theory of Computing

SIGARCH and IEEE CS

ISCA’05 71% 75% 76% Computer Architecture

SIGART, SIGACT and SIGMOD

PODS’05 68% 36% 54% Principles of Database Systems

SIGDA, & IEEE CASS/CANDE

DAC 21% 18% 25% Design Automation

SIGMOBILE Mobicom’05 53% 24% 55%Mobile Computing and Networking

SIGMOD SIGMOD’05 72% 68% 69% Management of Data

SIGPLAN PLDI’05 82% 82% 86%Programming Language Design & Implementation

SIGPLAN OOPSLA 62% 62% 58%Object-Oriented Programming, Sys., Lang. & Apps

Average 57% 49% 57%

Summary

• ACM’s conferences have about 3000 people on program committees each year

• ~ 1300 are not members of ACM, SIGs, or any other sponsoring organization– ~ 1000 nonmembers are US residents

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