ACM Student Chapter is the international
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
's student society which provides opportunities to students for networking, learn together and share their knowledge. Its main focus is on building and developing members' passion for
computer science
Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...
.
History
The first student chapter was founded in 1961 at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a Public university, public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus Universi ...
. ACM is currently organized into over hundreds of local chapters over 800 colleges and universities throughout the world.
Membership
The members of chapters are eligible for various benefits such as coding competitions, technical talks and mentoring sessions by experienced professionals.
Notable chapters
* ACM student chapter of
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
* ACM student chapter of
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...
* ACM student chapter of
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a Public university, public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus Universi ...
* ACM student chapter of
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
* ACM student chapter of
Nazarbayev University - is the first and only ACM chapter in Kazakhstan
* ACM student chapter of
KL University also known as KLH Bachupally ACM, is situated at the off-campus center in Hyderabad,specifically at the Bachupally Campus.
* ACM student chapter of
University of St. Gallen.
References
External links
Homepage
Association for Computing Machinery
Student organizations established in 1961
{{International-org-stub