What is ACM? (1) What Is ACM? David Patterson President of ACM Presented at International Symposium on Computer Architecture.

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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: 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?

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, 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 forwarding via acm.org –Doesn’t replace your favorite service – 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 Year Most 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 Or SIGARCH leadership Norman P. Jouppi SIG Chair Margaret Martonosi SIG Vice Chair Matthew Farrens SIG Secretary/Treasurer SIGARCH Board of Directors: Joel Emer Mark D. Hill William J. Dally Alan Berenbaum