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 ".

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

ACM has five “ Boards ” that make up various committees and subgroups, to help Headquarters staff maintain quality services and products.

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.

ACM is led by a Council consisting of the President, Vice – President, Treasurer, Past President, SIG Governing Board Chair, Publications Board Chair, three representatives of the SIG Governing Board, and seven Members – At – Large.

One developmental milestone occurred when the team from Northwestern University, which was responsible for the Chess series of programs and won the first three ACM Computer Chess Championships ( 1970 – 72 ), abandoned type B searching in 1973.

Thomas Babson, Amanda's weather -- man boyfriend, Dean, three episodes, 1. 1, The First Time, 1. 5, The ACM Kid, and 2. 16, Life of the Party.

At the 2006 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, in which over 5, 600 teams representing 1, 733 universities from 84 countries competed, DePaul placed 29th, one of three U. S. universities in the top 30 ( MIT placed 7th, Princeton placed 28th ).

He has received more than 27 ACM awards for Top Vocal Duo since 1991, except for 2000 when the honor went to Montgomery Gentry and 2009 when the honor went to Sugarland, including three Entertainer of the Year awards and vocal event of the year in 2005, for their hit " Building Bridges " with Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow's background vocals, along with his Single of the Year for his gospel song " Believe ".

In March 2009, Evans hosted the ACM GAC Top New Artist Special, which launched the fan voting for the ACMs three new categories: Top New Female Vocalist, Top New Male Vocalist and Top New Vocal Duo or Group.

In that time he served as president, vice president, three board chairs, Member-at-Large, Editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and Editor of the monthly ACM Communications.

functional areas and three cognitive processes, the basis of ACM Curriculum 1991.

The practicality of trace scheduling was demonstrated by a compiler built at Yale by Fisher and three of his graduate students, John Ruttenberg, Alexandru Nicolau, and especially John Ellis, whose doctoral dissertation on the compiler won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1985.

Normally an aircraft has two or three of these ACM.

The Gerard Salton Award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval ( SIGIR ) every three years to an individual who has made " significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval ".

The Asian Civilisations Museum ( ACM, ) is an institution which forms a part of the three museums of the National Museum of Singapore.

ACM is organized into over 170 local chapters and 35 Special Interest Groups ( SIGs ), through which it conducts most of its activities.

As of 2011, there exist ACM student chapters in 38 different countries.

* ACM SIGGRAPH chapters

Weekly research seminars, local IEEE, ACM and IET chapters ’ meetings and seminars and an annual International conference are regularly held.

* ACM SIGIR: Information Retrieval Special Interest Group

* Symposium on Applied Computing, an annual conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

SIGGRAPH ( short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques ) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics ( CG ) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.

* Conrad Weisert gives examples, some of which were published in ACM SIGPLAN ( Special Interest Group on Programming Languages ) Notices, December 1995 in: " Atrocious Programming Thrives "

Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Information Systems on Keeping, Re-finding and Sharing Personal Information 26 ( 4 ): pp. 30 – 54.

* ACM: Special Interest Groups

He is a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award, the Marconi Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the President's Award from ACM, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the ACM Software Systems Award, the Computerworld / Smithsonian Award, the ASIS Special Award and the Public Service Award from the Computing Research Board.

Salton was editor-in-chief of the Communications of the ACM and the Journal of the ACM, and chaired Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval ( SIGIR ).

The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science ( EATCS ) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory ( ACM SIGACT ).

* Dominic Hughes, Orkut Buyukkokten and James Warren " Empirical Bi-action Tables: a Tool for the Evaluation and Optimization of Text Input Systems, Application I: Stylus Keyboards " ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction ( TOCHI ), Special Issue on Mobile Text Entry.

It is operated by the Special Interest Group for Programming Languages ( SIGPLAN ) group of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ).

ACM SIGGRAPH is the New York – based Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.

* SIGDOC, the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM )

* 2003-Rigo Award ( Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication ) ( ACM SIGDOC )

This site was used to host meetings of the Bay Area ACM chapter's Special Interest Group in Large Scale Systems ( SIGBIG, in contrast to then SIGSMALL for microcomputers which are now called " PCs "); now a new national SIGHPC exists.

The Iverson Award, more formally the Kenneth E. Iverson Award for Outstanding Contribution to APL, is presented by the Special Interest Group on APL ( SIGAPL ) of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ).

Special section on collaboratories, Interactions, 5 ( 3 ), 31, New York: ACM Press.

In a paper to be published in proceedings the 2010 ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference, White and Horvitz present research on predicting escalations in medical concerns based on the structure and content of Web pages encountered during medical search sessions.