What Is ACM?

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What Is ACM?

• David Patterson
• President of ACM
• patterson_at_cs.berkeley.edu
• Presented at International Symposium on Computer
  Architecture June 2005

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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 1st electronic general-purpose
  computer
• ENIAC ?1947 Computer patent Eckert Mauchly
• John Mauchly 1st ACM Vice President, 2nd
  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?

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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

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ACM services to field (2 / 2)

• 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., Govt funding of IT Research, voting
  machines
• 12 Annual Awards
• Turing Award (Nobel Prize), Eckert-Mauchly
  (IEEE)
• Curriculum Standards Accreditation

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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,
  

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ACM Services to Individuals (2 / 4)

• Magazines
• Queue every issue Slashdotted
• Email forwarding via acm.org
• Doesnt replace your favorite email service
• Email that can follow you wherever you go
• ACM address is protected with flexible, Postini
  spam/virus filtering

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ACM Services to Individuals (3 / 4)

• Extra 99/yr gt 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
• 1991
• 1988
• 2003
• 1990
• 2001
• 1980
• 2002
• 2002
• 1976
• 1989
• Most 10 yrs

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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 gt 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

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Questions, Feedback, Suggestions on ACM?

• Please see me/send email
• patterson_at_cs.berkeley.edu
• Or SIGARCH leadership
• Norman P. Jouppi SIG Chair
• norm.jouppi_at_hp.com
• Margaret Martonosi SIG Vice Chair
• martonosi_at_princeton.edu
• Matthew Farrens SIG Secretary/Treasurer
• farrens_at_cs.ucdavis.edu

• SIGARCH Board of Directors
• Joel Emer
• joel.emer_at_intel.com
• Mark D. Hill markhill_at_cs.wisc.edu
• William J. Dally billd_at_csl.stanford.edu
• Alan Berenbaum aberenbaum_at_acm.org