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Association for Computing Machinery
ACM
Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world's largest international learned society for computing. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in New York City, ACM serves as an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science. It publishes journals and conference proceedings, maintains the ACM Computing Classification System, and develops standards and best practices for the computing profession.