Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. It publishes a variety of magazines and technical journals in computer science; sponsors conferences in various areas of the field (notably SIGGRAPH) and other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest[?]. ACM also offers insurance and other services to its members.

See also: Turing Award.

For more information about ACM, see http://www.acm.org/

For more information about the ACM ICPC, see http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/