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.

ACM has made almost all of its publications available to paid subscribers online at its Digital Library and also has a Guide to Computing Literature.

In addition to student and regular members, ACM has several advanced membership grades to recognize those with multiple years of membership and " demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers ".

ACM has three kinds of chapters: Special Interest Groups ,< ref > Professional Chapters, and Student Chapters.

As of 2011, ACM has professional chapters in 56 countries.

The term " computing " has sometimes been narrowly defined, as in a 1989 ACM report on Computing as a Discipline:

The database research area has several notable dedicated academic journals ( e. g., ACM Transactions on Database Systems-TODS, Data and Knowledge Engineering-DKE, and more ) and annual conferences ( e. g., ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, and more ), as well as an active and quite heterogeneous ( subject-wise ) research community all over the world.

The university has 27 ACM fellows.

He has served on several ACM and IEEE committees, and has also been editor of several refereed journals.

The Creativity and Cognition conference series, sponsored by the ACM and running since 1993, has been an important venue for publishing research on the intersection between technology and creativity.

Travis has sold over 25 million records, and has earned 22 number one hits, 6 number one albums, 6 Grammy awards, 6 CMA awards, 9 ACM awards, 10 AMA awards, 7 Dove awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He has previously served the Association for Computing Machinery as national lecturer, Turing Award chairman, member of the publications planning committee, and associate editor for the Communications of the ACM, the Journal of the ACM, and ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.

The Department of Informatics gets 8, 000 citations per year and has 5 professors in the top 10, 000 researchers by citations according to ACM.

For his contribution to the invention of the RSA cryptosystem, Adleman, along with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, has been a recipient of the 1996 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and the 2002 ACM Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science.

He has served on the board of several scientific journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, ACM Computing Reviews, Automated Software Engineering, Software Process, and Information and Software Technology.

Mashey was one of the founders of the SPEC benchmarking group, was an ACM National Lecturer for four years, has been guest editor for IEEE Micro, and one of the long-time organizers of the Hot Chips conferences.

The total number of ACM scenarios is five depending on version.

* “ The Emperor ’ s Old Clothes ”, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture, CACM volume 24 number 2, February 1981, pp 75 – 83.

* “ Secure Virtual Architecture: A Safe Execution Environment for Commodity Operating Systems ”, John Criswell, Andrew Lenharth, Dinakar Dhurjati, Vikram Adve, SOSP ' 07 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2007.

( 2000 ) “ Automatic Personalization based on web usage Mining ” Communications of the ACM, Vol.

In Proceedings of CSCW “ 96, Cambridge, Mass., November 16 – 20, ACM press: 209-218.

In Proceedings of CHI “ 98, LA, CA, April 18 – 23, ACM press: 456-463

Update on National Science Foundation funding of the “ collaboratory ”, Communications of the ACM, 34 ( 12 ), 83, New York: ACM Press.

* “ Algorithm 518, Incomplete Bessel Function I0: The von Mises Distribution ,” Hill, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol.

), “ Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction ”, ACM SIGCHI, 1992, 1996, Chapter 2.

* “ Space-Efficient Storage Management in an Attribute Grammar Evaluator ”, with M. Jazayeri, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems volume 3 issue 4, pp. 388 – 404, October 1981.

* “ A Space Improvement in the Alternating Semantic Evaluator ”, with M. Jazayeri, Proceedings of the ACM 1980 Annual Conference, pp. 498 – 504, January 1980.

* “ A Family of Pass-Oriented Attribute Grammar Evaluators ”, with M. Jazayeri, Proceedings of the ACM 1978 Annual Conference, pp. 261 – 270, December 1978.

* Garfinkel, S., and Cranor, L., Institutional Review Boards and Your Research, Communications of the ACM, June 2010.

* Pollack, Maurice, Message Route Control in a Large Teletype Network ” Journal of the ACM, 11, 104 – 16, 1964.

" Unfortunately neither Dahl, nor Nygaard could make it to the ACM Turing Award Lecture, scheduled to be delivered at the OOPSLA 2002 conference in Seattle, as they both died within two months of each other

Since the quote is typically used to demonstrate the fallacy of predictions, if Watson did make such a prediction in 1943, then, as Gordon Bell pointed out in his ACM 50 years celebration keynote, it would have held true for some ten years.

The ACM is a federated body consisting of eight separate State and Territory Branches that make up the National College.

ACM – W, the ACM's committee on women in computing, is set up to support, inform, celebrate, and work with women in computing.

ACM – W provides various resources for women in computing as well as high school girls interested in the field.

In the High Order Language Working Group ( HOLWG ) the process to define Ada generated requirements documents sporting different names, representing the various stages of development of the Ada language, as described in 1993 by Col William Whitaker in an article ACM SIGPLAN Notices.

Currently the ACM and others are focusing on operational challenges after new deregulation rules in various states are directly threatening PEG access.

She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s ; she is founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U. S. Public Policy Committee.

ACM was criticised over various practices, including failing to staff the Centre adequately, and concealing evidence of child abuse.

Slick managed to bring the various moderators back to their former status, but the ACM and ACD titles were permanently lost.

Coffman has been active professionally serving on several editorial boards, dozens of technical program committees, setting research agendas in workshops of the National Research Council, co-founding the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, and the special interest groups on performance evaluation of both ACM and IFIPS.

He has served on numerous conference program committees related to parallel processing, edited numerous journals, published numerous articles, and is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Member of the ACM.