FDP by ACM

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.