COLUMN: Letter from the Editors
Join Our Team: A Unique Opportunity for Aspiring Computer Science Students
By Jiayi Li, May 2024
Articles Tagged: Computing organizations
Articles & Features
Four Years of Excellence: IIIT Delhi Empowers Future Technologists
By Gopal Mengi, February 2024
COLUMN: User Account
From AI to AR: Spotlight on UIST 2023: Celebrating 36 Years of History
By Eric J. Gonzalez, February 2024
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Empowering Excellence: The Impact of ACM Student Chapters
By Gopal Mengi, October 2023
IISc ACM, Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
By Gopal Mengi, June 2023
CCET's Student Chapters are Reaching New Heights
By Nupur Shiturkar, January 2023
PCCOE ACM, a driver of all-round development
By Nupur Shiturkar, October 2022
SECTION: Features
Queer in AI
Queer in AI is an organization that aims to combat the harms faced by queer researchers within AI. Several inclusion initiatives are outlined, including those centered on policy and financial aid.
By Hetvi Jethwani, Arjun Subramonian, William Agnew, MaryLena Bleile, Sarthak Arora, Maria Ryskina, Jeffrey Xiong, July 2022
ACM members shine bright in Arkansas
By Nupur Shiturkar, January 2022
On student-centered design at Oakland University
By Daniela Zieba, June 2021
On virtual community-building with Stony Brook's ACM-W chapter
By Daniela Zieba, March 2021
SECTION: Features
On the future of computer science
Gabriele Kotsis, ACM President and full professor in computer science at Johannes Kepler University, shares her personal experiences and suggestions to shape the future of computer science.
By Elizabeth Churchill, Nova Ahmed, March 2021
ISU SIGCHI is putting the U in usability
By Anshuman Majumdar, November 2019
Spreading competitive programming culture in Ireland
By Anshuman Majumdar, September 2019
USC ACM: Encouraging networking via interactivity
By Anshuman Majumdar, July 2019
SECTION: Features
Esports as a catalyst for connected learning: the North America Scholastics Esports Federation
Collegiate esports' rising popularity has created a host of new educational and research opportunities, ranging from understanding and modeling these communities to expanding programs beyond college into high-school learning environments.
By Je Seok Lee, Constance Steinkuehler, July 2019
DEPARTMENT: Updates
BPDC ACM: Using social media marketing to bolster membership
By Anshuman Majumdar, April 2019
How WACM prepares women for success
By Anshuman Majumdar, January 2019
ACM USF: determined students revitalize an inactive chapter
By Anshuman Majumdar, October 2018
COLUMN: Accolades
A paradigm shift: how CS has intrinsically changed society
By Anukruti Mathur, October 2018
DEPARTMENT: Updates
UPES ACM: developing skills to survive the IT job market
By Anshuman Majumdar, July 2018
The Hour of Code: An initiative to break the barriers of coding
By Anshuman Majumdar, April 2018
SECTION: Features
Rethinking creativity
Why it matters to liberate creativity and how technology can help us along the way.
By Seda Röder, April 2018
DEPARTMENT: Updates
ADA ACM's role in diversifying chapter activities
By Anshuman Majumdar, December 2017
MacACM: Encouraging competitive programming via mentorship and outreach
By Anshuman Majumdar, September 2017
Kean ACM-W: promoting women's participation in CS
By Anshuman Majumdar, June 2017
SECTION: Features
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum on the moving frontier between mathematics and computer science
Young and early-career researchers at the 2016 Heidelberg Laureate Forum discuss how the frontier between mathematics and computer science is shifting, what the future promises, and the implications the frontier's shape and dynamics will have on both fields.
By Edmon Begoli, Vincent Schlegel, Michael Atiyah, Praise Adeyemo, Tim Baarslag, April 2017
"ANN" helps Mario rescue Princess Toadstool
By Daniel López Sánchez, September 2016
ACM TEC GDA addresses Mexico's social needs one app at a time
By David Byrd, June 2016
RIT SIGCHI
Democratizing digitization, campus outreach, and more
By David Byrd, April 2016
Fortifying computing in student societies
A focus on outreach initiatives.
By Vassilis Kalantzis, December 2015
COLUMN: Accolades
Women who paved the way for IoT
A teacher finds her voice
By Kayalvizhi Jayavel, December 2015
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Why "celebrate women in computing"?
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference coverage, to security and privacy, to CS theory. Selected blog posts, edited for print, are featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety. If you are interested in joining as a student blogger, please contact us.
By Nur Al-huda Hamdan, December 2015
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Excellence around the world
This year's ACM award winners share how their chapters came out on top.
By Claudia Schulz, November 2015
A community for learning
At Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, the students are also the teachers
By Claudia Schulz, July 2015
ACM-W chapters at home and abroad
An initiative on women, not of women
By Claudia Schulz, March 2015
Staying in touch
By Claudia Schulz, December 2014
DEPARTMENT: Labz
The Regenstrief global health informatics group
By Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne, December 2014
SECTION: Features
Making tech more inclusive
Exposing the driving causes behind the lack of diversity in our communities, and how to use your privilege for good.
By Erin Carson, June 2014
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Maintaining ACM traditions
Professional development done right
By Michael Zuba, December 2013
Revitalizing ACM Student Chapters: A look at how to refresh student initiatives
By Michael Zuba, September 2013
SECTION: Features
Facing the African ICTD academic divide
This article stitches together the current journey of ICTD researchers based in Africa who formed a virtual network, which hopes to contribute toward the enhancement of representation within the academic ICTD community.
By Kathleen Diga, December 2012
User experience practices in Nairobi's iHub community
How a forthcoming user experience (UX) lab will meet the needs of the African technology community.
By Mark Kamau, Angela Crandall, Kagonya Awori, December 2012
Research at Nairobi's iHub
By Angela Crandall, Rhoda Omenya, December 2012
DEPARTMENT: Updates
Creativity and computing: An ACM student chapter initiative
By Ben Deverett, September 2012
DEPARTMENT: Labz
The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, London, UK
By Martin Dittus, September 2012
Special interest groups
By Daniel Gooch, March 2011
Common mistakes in online and real-time contests
Each year the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) arranges a worldwide programming contest. This contest has two rounds: the regional contests and the World Final. The teams with the best results in the regional contests advance to the World Final. The contest showcases the best programmers in the world to representatives of large companies who are looking for talent. When practicing for programming competitions, remember that all your efforts should be directed at improving your programming skills. No matter what your performance is in a contest, don't be disappointed. Success in programming contests is affected by factors other than skill, most importantly, adrenaline, luck, and the problem set of the contest. One way of getting immediate feedback on your efforts is to join the Valladolid Online Programming Practice/Contest or the online judge hosted by Ural State University (USU). Successfully solving problems increases your online ranking in the respective competitions.This article is for beginning programmers who are new to programming contests. I will discuss the common problems faced in contests, the University of Valladolid online judge, and the USU online judge. The suggestions are divided into three parts: General Suggestions, Online Contest Suggestions, and Valladolid-Specific Suggestions. Throughout this paper, please note that in real-time contests, the judges are human and in online contests, the judges are computer programs, unless otherwise noted.
By Shahriar Manzoor, July 2001
Web review: W3C, the World Wide Web consortium
By Kim Moorman, November 1999
RoboCup
By Hiroaki Kitano, Minoru Asada, Itsuki Noda, Hitoshi Matsubara, April 1998
St. Cloud State University ACM chapter wins 2nd annual Webbie prize
By Hal Berghel, October 1997
Programming contest strategies
By Fabian Ernst, Jeroen Moelands, Seppo Pieterse, November 1996
Down the Road: University of Pennsylvania
By Sara M. Carlstead, February 1996
Down the Road: visit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
By Sara M. Carlstead, November 1995
Down the road: meet our first European chapter
By Sara M. Carlstead, September 1995
From the editors: Crossroads finishes first year
By Ronald B. Krisko, May 1995
Social responsibility and the CS student
By Saul Jimenez, May 1995
Down the Road: the first high school chapter
By Sara M. Carlstead, May 1995
Conference report: The 1995 ACM Big Event
By Ronald B. Krisko, May 1995
Road crew
By Saveen Reddy, September 1994