the association for computing machinery (acm) is a us-based international learned society for computing.it was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society.the acm is a non-profit professional membership group, claiming nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022.its headquarters are in new york city.the acm is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science (informatics).its motto is 'advancing computing as a science & profession'.[...] after making some inquiries during may and june, we believe there is ample interest to start an informal association of many of those interested in the new machinery for computing and reasoning.since there has to be a beginning, we are acting as a temporary committee to start such an association: e. c. berkeley, prudential insurance co. of america, newark, n. j. r. v. d. campbell, raytheon manufacturing co., waltham, mass.john h. curtiss, bureau of standards, washington, d.c. h. e. goheen, office of naval research, boston, mass.j. w. mauchly, electronic control co., philadelphia, pa. t. k. sharpless, moore school of elec.eng., philadelphia, pa. r. taylor, mass.inst.of tech., cambridge, mass.c. b. tompkins, engineering research associates, washington, d.c.the committee (except for curtiss) had gained experience with computers during world war ii: berkeley, campbell, and goheen helped build harvard mark i under howard h. aiken, mauchly and sharpless were involved in building eniac, tompkins had used 'the secret navy code-breaking machines', and taylor had worked on bush's differential analyzers.the acm was then founded in 1947 under the name eastern association for computing machinery, which was changed the following year to the association for computing machinery.the acm history committee since 2016 has published the a.m.turing oral history project, the acm key award winners video series, and the india industry leaders video project.additionally, there are over 833 college and university chapters.the first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the university of louisiana at lafayettemany of the sigs, such as siggraph, sigda, sigplan, sigcse and sigcomm, sponsor regular conferences, which have become famous as the dominant venue for presenting innovations in certain fields.the groups also publish a large number of specialized journals, magazines, and newsletters.acm also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide acm international collegiate programming contest (icpc), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between garry kasparov and the ibm deep blue computer.other publications of the acm include:  acm xrds, formerly 'crossroads', was redesigned in 2010 and is the most popular student computing magazine in the us.acm interactions, an interdisciplinary hci publication focused on the connections between experiences, people and technology, and the third largest acm publication.acm computing surveys (csur) computers in entertainment (cie) acm journal on emerging technologies in computing systems (jetc) acm special interest group: computers and society (sigcas)  a number of journals, specific to subfields of computer science, titled acm transactions.some of the more notable transactions include: acm transactions on algorithms (talg) acm transactions on embedded computing systems (tecs) acm transactions on computer systems (tocs) ieee/acm transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics (tcbb) acm transactions on computational logic (tocl) acm transactions on computer-human interaction (tochi) acm transactions on database systems (tods) acm transactions on graphics (tog) acm transactions on mathematical software (toms) acm transactions on multimedia computing, communications, and applications (tomm) ieee/acm transactions on networking (ton) acm transactions on programming languages and systems (toplas)although communications no longer publishes primary research, and is not considered a prestigious venue, many of the great debates and results in computing history have been published in its pages.
association for computing machinery | headquarter | new york city
its headquarters are in new york city.the acm is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science (informatics).[...] after making some inquiries during may and june, we believe there is ample interest to start an informal association of many of those interested in the new machinery for computing and reasoning.since there has to be a beginning, we are acting as a temporary committee to start such an association: e. c. berkeley, prudential insurance co. of america, newark, n. j. r. v. d. campbell, raytheon manufacturing co., waltham, mass.