Articles Tagged: Computing organizations
Articles & Features
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