Insight into ACM_fdp22022022.pptx
- 1. Insight into ACM: Association for Computing Machinery on the occassion of FDP on “Applications of Machine Learning” Rituparna Chaki Chairwoman, ACM Kolkata Professional Chapter Professor, University of Calcutta rcakcs@caluniv.ac.in
- 2. NEP 2020 • “Education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable and just society, and promoting national development”.
- 3. Association for Computing Machinery • The world’s largest computing society • Supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking.
- 6. ACM Goals 2021-2025 Sustainably open Digital Library in 2025 Providing Continuing to diversify the ACM global community Continuing world’s leading venues (conferences, publications, magazines) for research that shapes the future of computing and careers of those in computing. Providing enlightened educational frameworks and resources for students and professionals Defining public and policy makers on the benefits, potential, limits, and pitfalls of computing and computer science. Educating development and use of environmentally sustainable computing technologies and the adoption of environmentally responsible professional practices. Promoting ethical computing to make a positive impact across the global computing community. Promoting
- 7. ACM-SIG :Special Interest Groups • 38 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) • A primary source of original research and personal perspectives from the world's leading thinkers in computing and information technology • The leading representatives of their fields, enable individual technical communities to share expertise and facilitate the face‐to‐face interactions critical to the dissemination of novel and competing ideas
- 8. Chapters: ACM's "Local Neighborhoods" • Supports more than 860 professional and student chapters worldwide. • These "local neighborhoods" offer opportunities for members to gain access to critical research and establish personal networking systems
- 9. Supporting Tomorrow’s Problem Solvers Today : Student Chapters • ACM enable students to fully engage in its professional activities. • Participants from more than 500 colleges and universities worldwide enhance their learning through the exchange of ideas with other students and established professionals. • $1.5 million in scholarships and an affordable Student Membership. • Both undergraduate and graduate student members can compete in ACM Student Research Competitions, ( hosted at ACM conferences and sponsored by Microsoft.)
- 10. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems • As of January 2022, and for a two-year period: All papers published in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages (TOPLAS) will be published as Gold Open Access (OA) and will be free to read and share via the ACM Digital Library.
- 11. Awards and Recognitions • A.M. Turing Award is accompanied by a $1 million prize provided by Google for • contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field. • Other prominent ACM awards recognize achievements by young computing professionals, educators, theoretical computer scientists, software systems innovators, and pioneers who have made humanitarian and cross-discipline contributions.
- 12. ACM Membership Be Creative. Stay Connected. Keep Inventing. • Networking Opportunities: • A vast network of nearly 100,000 highly dedicated student and professional peers • ACM's Career & Job Center, where you will find targeted job opportunities and more • The opportunity to join one or more of ACM's Special Interest Groups in 37 specialty areas of IT • Become a member of computing community through one of hundreds of Professional and Student Chapters worldwide • Unique volunteering opportunities to gain hands-on experience and knowledge of the marketplace
- 13. The Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) • ACM's most valued outreach programs, providing universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and local ACM chapters with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry. ACMwill cover thecost of transportationfor the speaker to travel to your event.
- 14. Professional Members • Thousands of online books, courses and short videos from Skillsoft covering the most in-demand skills, software, and technologies for computing professionals • The option to subscribe to the full ACM Digital Library, which includes over 2 million pages of text • A full year (12 issues) online subscription to Communications of the ACM • Access to a custom collection of thousands of online books and video courses O'Reilly , including recorded O'Reilly conferences
- 15. StudentMember • A full-year (4 issues) subscription to XRDS: Crossroads, ACM's Student Magazine • Student Quick Takes (ACM's quarterly newsletters)
- 16. ACM-W • Supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in computing. • Membership in ACM-W is open to all ACM members and is free of charge.
- 17. ACM-India: Student Chapter • 195 student chapters and 16 professional chapters nationwide • Student Chapters in India are required to have at least ten (10) ACM members. • Need to mention Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer. These individuals must be ACM Student Members. • In addition, a Faculty Sponsor with an ACM Professional Membership is required.
- 18. ACM-India: Research • Best Doctoral Dissertation Award: Honoured with plaque and prize as well as publication in ACM Digital Library • Travel grants for conferences: Joint effort of ACM India and the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) to offer partial travel grant to researchers from India to present papers at premier international conferences • IRISS (Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar): Opportunity for students to showcase their published work to fellow researchers in academia and industry
- 19. ACM India : Education initiatives • ACM India Summer/Winter Schools: Developing a taste for research among students through two- to three- week summer schools conducted by faculty comprising leading experts from academia and industry on advanced topics in computing • CSPathshala: An initiative to promote computational thinking at the primary and middle school level, and influence education policy to enable the introduction of computational thinking into formal school curricula • COMPUTE: ACM India annual international symposium focused on computing education
- 20. CS Pathshala: Developing Computation thinking • The characteristics that define computational thinking are decomposition, pattern recognition / data representation, generalization/abstraction, and algorithms. By decomposing a problem, identifying the variables involved using data representation, and creating algorithms, a generic solution results.
Editor's Notes
- #3: The has given a clarion call for holistic value-based education to prepare our youth and develop our Nation, The steps taken by the All-India Council for Technical Education in the direction of imbibing universal human values education among teachers and students have proved to be transformational.
- #4: Global scientific and educational organization
- #8: Because they provide objective arenas for novel, often competing ideas, many of these meetings have become premier global events.
- #9: ACM’s broad‐based infrastructure supports more than 860 professional and student chapters worldwide. These "local neighborhoods" offer opportunities for members to gain access to critical research and establish personal networking systems
- #11: premier journal for reporting recent research advances in the areas of programming languages, and systems to assist the task of programming.
- #13: ACM offers the resources, access and tools to invent the future.
- #18: 195 student chapters and 16 professional chapters nationwide, including the Special Interest Group and ACM-W chapters,