The ACM Student Research Competition (ACM SRC) is an international
computing
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research
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competition for university students. The competition is held annually and split into undergraduate and graduate divisions, organized by the
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 ...
. With several hundred annual participants, the Student Research Competition is considered the world's largest university-level research contest in the field of computing.
The competition started as a travel grant program in 2003 and was previously sponsored by
Microsoft
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. The winners of the competition are recognized at the ACM Awards Banquet, alongside the
Turing Award
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the fi ...
winners.
Structure
The first round of competition spans more than 20 major ACM conferences, hosting special poster sessions to showcase research submitted by students. Selected semi-finalists add a slide presentation and compete for prizes in both undergraduate and graduate categories based on their knowledge, contribution, and quality of presentation. Those taking first place at the second-level competitions are invited to compete in the annual Grand Finals. Three top students in each category are selected as winners each year.
First-round conferences include the
ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
SC (formerly Supercomputing), the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. I ...
, the
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), the
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing,
and
SIGPLAN's Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, and many others.
Previous Winners
See also
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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 ...
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International Collegiate Programming Contest
The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Directed by ICPC Executive Director and Baylor Professor William B. Poucher, the ICPC oper ...
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ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
The ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to the authors of the best doctoral dissertations in computer science and computer engineering. The award is accompanied by a prize of US$20,000 a ...
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List of computer science conferences
This is a list of academic conferences in computer science. Only conferences with separate articles are included; within each field, the conferences are listed alphabetically by their short names.
General
* FCRC – Federated Computing Resear ...
References
External links
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