1. What is ACM? (1) What Is ACM? David Patterson President of ACM patterson@cs.berkeley.edu Presented at International Symposium on Computer Architecture June 2005

2. 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: 1 st electronic general-purpose computer –ENIAC  1947 Computer patent : Eckert & Mauchly –John Mauchly 1 st ACM Vice President, 2 nd 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?

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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, …

6. 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

7. 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 Year 1.1991 2.1988 3.2003 4.1990 5.2001 6.1980 7.2002 8.2002 9.1976 10. 1989 Most 10+ yrs

8. 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

9. What is ACM? (9) Questions, Feedback, Suggestions on ACM? Please see me/send email patterson@cs.berkeley.edu Or SIGARCH leadership Norman P. Jouppi SIG Chair norm.jouppi@hp.com Margaret Martonosi SIG Vice Chair martonosi@princeton.edu Matthew Farrens SIG Secretary/Treasurer farrens@cs.ucdavis.edu SIGARCH Board of Directors: Joel Emer joel.emer@intel.com Mark D. Hill markhill@cs.wisc.edu William J. Dally billd@csl.stanford.edu Alan Berenbaum aberenbaum@acm.org