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association for computing machinery

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association for computing machinery - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Association for Computing
  Association for Computing Machinery
  
     <body> (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing
     Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific
     and educational computer society in the industry.  Founded in
     1947, only a year after the unveiling of ENIAC, ACM was
     established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to
     advance the science and application of Information Technology
     .  John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was
     one of ACM's founders.
  
     Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world
     of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on
     developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful
     interchange of ideas.
  
     ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers,
     practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the
     Association's major programs and services - publications,
     special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and
     special activities.
  
     The ACM Press publishes journals (notably CACM), book
     series, conference proceedings, CD-ROM, hypertext,
     video, and specialized publications such as curricula
     recommendations and self-assessment procedures.
  
     (http://info.acm.org/).
  
     (1998-02-24)