ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

The main international professional society for computing; awards the Turing Award and publishes journals such as CACM.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the leading international professional society for computing, founded in 1947. It publishes journals such as Communications of the ACM (CACM), organises major conferences, and awards the A.M. Turing Award, often called computing’s highest honour.

In AI history, ACM appears as a reference organisation for landmark papers (for example ELIZA in CACM) and for awards such as the 2018 Turing Award for deep learning.