Today’s Research Driving Tomorrow’s Technology For more information about the ACM Digital Library & Guide to Computing Literature, please visit www.librarians.acm.org or contact ACM at [email protected], or call +1-212-626-0676 Request a free trial of the ACM Digital Library today at [email protected] http://dl.acm.org More than 60 years of history. Over 110,000 members in 190 countries worldwide. 37 Special Interest Groups covering the breadth of computer science and IT. Welcome to the ACM. Knowledge That Inspires ACM was established when computer science was in its infancy. We’ve published the work of the early pioneers whose ideas have had a profound effect on the world around us, shaping the technology that is now part of our everyday lives. Contents Today, ACM continues to bring the discoveries 2 About ACM of those working at the forefront of computer 4 About the ACM Digital Library science to the attention of the world. Through 6 Key Facts About the Digital Library our conferences, journals, magazines, 8 Key Features of the Digital Library newsletters and books, we provide the fuel 10 ACM Conferences 12 ACM Journals and Magazines that inspires tomorrow’s innovations. 16 ACM SIG Newsletters 18 ACM Books 20 ACM Computing Reviews 22 Supporting Authors 24 Supporting the Information Community 26 Purchasing and Accessing ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY | 1 ABOUT ACM More than 60 years of history. Over 110,000 members in 190 countries worldwide. 37 Special Interest Groups covering the breadth of computer science and IT. Welcome to ACM. Facilitating Innovation & Discovery For over 60 years, ACM has been the place where the best minds in computer science have come to meet, share ideas, publish their work and change the world. In addition to ACM’s world-renowned publishing program, our range of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) convene hundreds of conferences and workshops each year, providing professionals, researchers, and academics alike with opportunities to meet and discuss the latest advances across the spectrum of computer science. ACM is also highly active in furthering the future of computing, helping to shape educational cur- ricula and policy across the world, and awarding — among other prestigious awards and prizes — the sought-after A.M. Turing Award that recognizes the key advances in computing and IT and which comes with a $1,000,000 prize provided by Google. Historic Images, top-to-bottom: Babbage: Jitze Couperus from Los Altos Hills, California, USA; ENIAC: All of this is made possible by our dedicated and Public Domain; XEROX ALTO: Michael Hicks from Saint Paul, MN, USA; NEC Mainframe computer: passionate members and fellows, many of whom Don DeBold: 1958; PDP-11 at the Computer History Museum: Todd Dailey; IBM Data Processing Machine volunteer their time to serve on our boards, driving Public Domain/NASA; IBM PC Laptop: Ljupco Smokovski; Titan Supercomputer: Oak Ridge National all of our activities and ensuring that ACM truly is the Laboratory; iphone: LOVEgraphic; Virtual Reality voice of the global computing community. Headset: Yanliang Wang 2 | ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY | 3 ABOUT THE ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY The ACM Digital Library is the premier source for computing literature. Over 450,000 articles. Over 7,500 conference proceedings. Content from over 89 journals, magazines, and newsletters. All with a curated index containing over 2.6 million citations to the world’s computing literature. Our Complete Collection The world’s most renowned computer scientists, Cerf, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Charles scholars, researchers, and practitioners volunteer Thacker, Marvin Minsky, and other prominent their time to help ACM provide the global com- researchers recognized by the A.M. Turing Award. puter science community with the highest-quali- The next major technological advances will ty resources — from conferences and workshops stem from research that is being undertaken to magazines, newsletters, and many of the field’s today and published within the ACM Digital highest-impact scholarly journals — all through Library, covering fields as diverse as computer subscription to the ACM Digital Library. graphics, networking, gaming, artificial intelli- Each year over 24,000 newly published ar- gence, and beyond. ticles from our journals, magazines and newslet- ters, as well as over 500 annual conference vol- Covering the breadth of computing umes — representing nearly 20% of the world’s ACM’s 37 Special interest Groups (SIGs) represent scholarly computing literature — are added to virtually every major area of computing, from the complete full-text archive of over 450,000 Artificial Intelligence to the Web. Most SIGs ACM articles dating back to 1951. publish regular newsletters with a practical focus, and sponsor a number of conferences and The greatest minds workshops. The ACM Digital Library includes ACM publishes research from the leading names the complete archive of each SIG’s publications, in computing, much of which has proven crucial proceedings from relevant events, and to developing technology in widespread use supporting multimedia materials. today — including key achievements from Vint 4 | ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY IMAGE CONNEL BY KEY FACTS ABOUT THE DIGITAL LIBRARY 2.6 Million 117 ACM conference PUBLICATION Every 2 seconds, a researcher, practitioner, educator profile pages RECORDS or student downloads an article from the ACM 17,860 institutional Digital Library. 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Reports From the Front-Line ACM and its Special Interest Groups convene • Design Automation Conference more than 170 events each year, ranging in size • The ACM SIGKDD Conference on and scope from the world-renowned KDD and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SIGGRAPH conferences to focused symposia serv- • The International Conference ing niche research communities. on Management of Data Proceedings from each of these events • The ACM International Conference are included in the ACM Digital Library, along on Multimedia with more than 8,600 supplementary files