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Shaping the future Our community of over 110,000 members, drawn from 190 countries, is shaping the future of technology through research, education and practice. ACM plays a leading role in shaping educational curricula, brings together the top researchers and practitioners in the field, publishes the best of today’s research and makes it accessible through the ACM Digital Library.
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Today’s research driving tomorrow’s technology Computers touch virtually every aspect of our everyday lives. For over 60 years, ACM has been the place where the best minds in computer science have come to meet, share ideas, publish their work and change the world.
ACM is comprised of a global community of computer scientists and practitioners who care deeply about the future of computing and its impact on the world. These volunteers, members, authors and editors donate their time, expertise, and experience to ensure that ACM remains the leading voice for the global computing community.
A leader in scholarly communication ACM has been at the forefront of some of the most important advances in publishing technology and policy since the internet was invented and continues to be one of the leading societies and scholarly publishers in the world.
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Index 2. About the ACM 6. Our heritage 8. Our mission 9. Our community 10. ACM Digital Library 11. Key facts 12. Key features 14. Journals and Magazines 18. Conference proceedings 19. SIG newsletters 20. ACM Books 22. How to purchase
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A Cutting edge platform Our complete collection of journals, conference proceedings, magazines and newsletters offer an integrated bibliography covering the entire field. Sophisticated searching
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Author and article bibliometrics
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Journals and Magazines
Research, news and opinion
Communications of the ACM cacm.acm.org
Computing Surveys surveys.acm.org
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Computing Surveys, a comprehensive collection of survey papers and symposia, provides a guided tour of such computing disciplines as multimedia, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and many more.
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Our journal editors are thought-leaders in their fields and our emphasis on rapid publication ensures minimal delay in the communication of exiting new ideas and discoveries.
#9 by Citations in CS Information Systems Journal of the ACM serves as an international venue for careful presentation of theoretical research in core computing areas, such as: complex algorithms, computer architecture, system modeling, database theory, and data structures.
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Conference proceedings
Reports from the front-line More than any other field, conferences are a vital publication venue in computing – this is where the most cutting edge research is presented and discussed. ACM and its Special Interest Groups convene more than 170 events each year, ranging in size and scope from the
SIG Newsletters
Topical highlights In addition to conference proceedings and journals publishing the latest research in their fields, many ACM Special Interest Groups publish regular newsletters. The following list highlights titles available to ACM Digital Library subscribers:
world-renowned KDD and SIGGRAPH conferences to focused symposia serving niche research communities.
Accessibility and Computing
Information Retrieval
Algorithms and Computational Theory
Information Technology Education
audio-visual files – representing a unique wealth of knowledge
Ada Programming Language
Knowledge Discovery in Data
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Applied Computing
Measurement and Evaluation
Proceedings from each of these events are included in the ACM Digital Library, along with more than 6,500 supplementary
A selection of key ACM SIG events:
Computer Architecture Artificial Intelligence
The International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques The International Conference on Supercomputing
Embedded Systems Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Design Automation Conference The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining The International Conference on Management of Data
Computer-Human Interaction Data Communication Computer Science Education Design Automation
Management Information Systems Multimedia Systems Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing Management of Data Operating Systems Programming Languages Fortran Forum Newsletter Security, Audit and Control Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
The ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Design of Communication
Simulation and Modeling
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Electronic Commerce
Software Engineering
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Spatial Information
Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
University and College Computing Services
High Performance Computing
Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web
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Computers and Society
Microarchitecture
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ACM Books
In-depth insights Published by ACM in conjunction with Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ACM Books is a new series of high quality, advanced-level books for the computer science community. Editor in Chief: M. Tamer Ă–zsu, University of Waterloo
textbooks, research monographs, practitioner texts, and books focusing on the history and social impact of computing. ACM Books will be available to institutions as Collections. The one-time purchase of each Collection provides perpetual
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Subject areas currently include the following fields of research: Algorithms & complexity
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Bioinformatics
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Computer networks
Programming languages
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Security & privacy
History of computing
Social computing
Human-centered computing
Software engineering
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Web technology & science
Information retrieval & digital libraries
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