About ACM

ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.

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Get Involved with ACM

ACM is a volunteer-led and member-driven organization. Everything ACM accomplishes is through the efforts of people like you. A wide range of activities keep ACM moving, including organizing conferences, editing journals, reviewing papers and participating on boards and committees, to name just a few. Find out all the ways that you can volunteer with ACM.

ACM Chapters

Chapters are the "local neighborhoods" of ACM. Professional and Student chapters worldwide serve as nodes of activity for ACM members and the computing community at large, offering seminars, lectures, and the opportunity to meet peers and experts in many fields of interest.

ACM: Formed at the Dawn of Computing

ACM was established in 1947 soon after the creation of ENIAC, the first stored-program digital computer, to “advance the science, development, construction, and application of the new machinery for computing, reasoning, and other handling of information.”

ACM's FY 2015 Annual Report

The past year saw many "firsts" for ACM, including a new CEO, a $1 million Turing Award, and a new conference devoted to practitioners. Read the annual report, with an introduction by ACM President Alexander L. Wolf, to learn about more "firsts," initiatives and services, as well as issues driving future programs.

ACM Officers

Learn more about the leaders who are the driving force behind ACM's initiatives:

President Alexander L. Wolf (left): also serves on the ACM Europe Council
Vice President Vicki L Hanson (center): member of the ACM-W Europe Executive Committee; Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
Secretary-Treasurer Erik Altman (not pictured): formerly Chair of SIG Governing Board and a Past Chair of SIGMICRO, ACM's Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture
CEO/Executive Director Bobby Schnabel (right), formerly Chair of the ACM Education Policy Committee

ACM Council on Women in Computing

ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.

ACM Regional Councils

ACM's Regional Councils provide grassroots support on a global scale. Based in Europe, India, and China, they raise awareness, visibility and relevance of ACM by sponsoring high-quality conferences, expanding chapters, and encouraging greater participation in all dimensions of the society.

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A. M. Turing Award

ACM's most prestigious technical award is accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000. It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by Google Inc.
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2015 - ACM A.M. Turing Laureate
Whitfield Diffie Award Profile |

2015 - ACM A.M. Turing Laureate
Martin Hellman Award Profile |

ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences

The ACM - Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences recognizes personal contributions by young scientists and system developers to a contemporary innovation that, through its depth, fundamental impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline. The award carries a prize of $175,000. Financial support for the ACM - Infosys Foundation Award is provided by the Infosys Foundation endowment.
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2015 - Award Recipient
Stefan Savage Award Profile |

For innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system.

ACM Distinguished Service Award

Awarded on the basis of value and degree of services to the computing community. The contribution should not be limited to service to the Association, but should include activities in other computer organizations and should emphasize contributions to the computing community at large.
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2014 - Award Recipient
Jeannette Wing Award Profile |

For her advocacy of "computational thinking," her leadership of the Computing and Information Science & Engineering directorate of the US National Science Foundation, and for drawing new and diverse audiences to the field of computer science.

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Presented annually to the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering. The Doctoral Dissertation Award is accompanied by a prize of $20,000, and the Honorable Mention Award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000. Financial sponsorship of the award is provided by Google. Winning dissertations will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM Books Series.
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2014 - Honorable Mention
John Criswell Award Profile |

For his dissertation, "Secure Virtual Architecture: Security for Commodity Software Systems," nominated by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2014 - Honorable Mention
John Duchi Award Profile |

For his dissertation, "Multiple Optimality Guarantees in Statistical Learning," nominated by the University of California at Berkeley.

2014 - Award Recipient
Matei Zaharia Award Profile |

For his dissertation, "An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters," nominated by the University of California at Berkeley.

ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award

Administered jointly by ACM and IEEE Computer Society. The award of $5000 is given for contributions to computer and digital systems architecture where the field of computer architecture is considered at present to encompass the combined hardware-software design and analysis of computing and digital systems.
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2015 - Award Recipient
Norman Jouppi Award Profile |

For pioneering contributions to the design and analysis of high-performance processors and memory systems.

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics. Prizes may be awarded for peak performance or special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on important science and engineering problems. Financial support of the $10,000 award is provided by Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing.
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2015 - IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Costas Bekas Award Profile |

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

2015 - IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Alessandro Curioni Award Profile |

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earths Mantle

2015 - The University of Texas at Austin
Omar Ghattas Award Profile |

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

2015 - California institute of Technology
Michael Gurnis Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

2015 - IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Yves Ineichen Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

2015 - The University of Texas at Austin
Tobin Isaac Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

2015 - IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
A. Cristiano I. Malossi Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle.

2015 - The University of Texas at Austin
Johann Rudi Award Profile |

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle.

2015 - IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Peter Staar Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle.

2015 - New York University
Georg Stadler Award Profile

An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle

ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award

Awarded to the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of $35,000. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. Effective with the 2013 award, the financial sponsor of the Grace Murray Hopper Award is Microsoft Research.
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2014 - Award Recipient
Sylvia Ratnasamy Award Profile |

For her seminal work on distributed hash tables, a fundamental contribution to the design of large-scale distributed and decentralized computing systems.

ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. This award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000 and is endowed by contributions from the Kanellakis family, with additional financial support provided by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computational Theory (SIGACT), Design Automaton (SIGDA), Management of Data (SIGMOD), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), the ACM SIG Projects Fund, and individual contributions.
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2014 - Award Recipient
James Demmel Award Profile |

For contributions to algorithms and software for numerical linear algebra used in scientific computing and large-scale data analysis.

ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award

Presented annually to an outstanding educator who is: appointed to a recognized educational baccalaureate institution; recognized for advancing new teaching methodologies, or effecting new curriculum development or expansion in Computer Science and Engineering; or making a significant contribution to the educational mission of the ACM. Those who have been teaching for ten years or less will be given special consideration. A prize of $10,000 is supplied by Pearson Education.
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2014 - Award Recipient
William Wulf Award Profile |

For contributions as a teacher, author, and national leader who focused attention and changed the national education agenda and in the process supported the needs of underserved and under-represented students.

ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

The ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award is awarded annually and recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. The award includes a $5,000 honorarium. The recipient will give a presentation, normally technical, at the SC conference at which it is announced, or at an ACM or IEEE conference of the winner's choosing during the year following the announcement.
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2015 - Award Recipient
Kathy Yelick Award Profile |

For advancing the programmability of HPC systems, strategic national leadership, and mentorship in academia and government labs.

ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics

This award is to recognize an individual or a group who have made a significant contribution through the use of computing technology. It will be given once every two years, assuming that there are worthy recipients. The award amount is $5,000 plus travel expenses to the Awards banquet.

The award is intentionally defined broadly. The professional credentials of the recipient(s) are not important. The recipient(s) need never to have earned a degree or published a paper, or even be considered to be a computer professional. The emphasis of the Award Committee will be on the significance of the contribution itself, within the prescribed areas of technology for humanitarian contributions in the field of computing.

Some examples of the types of contributions that this award is created to recognize are: application of computer technology to aid the disabled; making an educational contribution using computers or Computer Science in inner city schools; creative research concerning intellectual property issues; expansion of educational opportunities in Computer Science for women and underrepresented minorities; application of computers or computing techniques to problems of developing countries.
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2014 - Award Recipient
Robin Murphy Award Profile |

For pioneering work in humanitarian disaster response through search and rescue robotics, to the benefit of both survivors and responders

ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships

Endowed in memory of George Michael, one of the founding fathers of the SC Conference series, the ACM IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial Fellowships honor exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus areas are in high performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis. ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the SC Conference support this award.

Fellowship winners are selected each year based on overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which technical interests align with those of the HPC community, academic progress to date, recommendations by their advisor and others, and a demonstration of current and anticipated use of HPC resources. The Fellowship includes a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel and registration to receive the award at the annual SC conference.
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2015 - Award Recipient
Maciej Besta Award Profile |

For his project "Accelerating Large-Scale Distributed Graph Computations."

2015 - Award Recipient
Dhairya Malhotra Award Profile |

For his project "Scalable Algorithms for Evaluating Volume Potentials."

ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award

The ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. This award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000, provided by ACM and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and by individual contributions.
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2014 - Award Recipient
Jon Kleinberg Award Profile |

For groundbreaking work in computer science in areas including social and information networks, information retrieval, and data science, and for bridging computing, economics and the social sciences.

Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award

This award may be given to up to three individuals per year, for entirely different activities, and they are selected based on the value and degree of service to ACM.
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2014 - Award Recipient
Wendy Hall Award Profile |

For guiding ACM to become a truly international organization, helping improve diversity within ACM, and working to increase ACM's visibility in scientific venues world-wide.

ACM Policy Award

The ACM Policy Award was established in 2014 to recognize an individual or small group that had a significant positive impact on the formation or execution of public policy affecting computing or the computing community. This can be for education, service, or leadership in a technology position; for establishing an innovative program in policy education or advice; for building the community or community resources in technology policy; or other notable policy activity. The award is accompanied by a $10,000 prize.
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ACM Presidential Award

This award is given at the discretion of the ACM President, to individuals whose contributions in computing fall within the goals of the ACM.
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2015 - Award Recipient
John White Award Profile |

For his committed and inspired leadership as ACM's Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer from November 1998 to July 2015, transforming the Association into a truly international society able to bring the highest quality resources to current and future computing professionals worldwide, and enabling it to deliver at unprecedented levels on its mission of advancing computing as a science and a profession.

SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering

This endowed award will recognize an individual(s) for outstanding research contributions to the field of computational science and engineering. The contribution(s) for which the award is made must be publicly available and may belong to any aspect of computational science in its broadest sense. The award will include a certificate and a cash prize of $5,000.

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