What Is ACM David Patterson President of ACM

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

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? (2)

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? (3)

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, Bay. CHI, 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 What is ACM? (4)

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, … What is ACM? (5)

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 What is ACM? (6)

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 What is ACM? (7)

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? (8)

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 What is ACM? (9)