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 membership group, reporting nearly 110,000 student and professional members . Its headquarters are in New York City. The ACM is an umbrella organization for academic and scholarly interests in computer science (informatics). Its motto is "Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession". History In 1947, a notice was sent to various people: On January 10, 1947, at the Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery at the Harvard computation Laboratory, Professor Samuel H. Caldwell of Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke of the need for an association of those interested in computing machinery, and of the need for communication between them. [...] After making some inquiries during May and June, we believe there is ample interest to start an informal association of many of those interested in the new machinery for computing and reasoning. Since there has to be a beginning, we are acting as a temporary committee to start such an association: E. C. Berkeley, Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, N. J. R. V. D. Campbell, Raytheon Manufacturing Co., Waltham, Mass. , Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. H. E. Goheen, Office of Naval Research, Boston, Mass. J. W. Mauchly, Electronic Control Co., Philadelphia, Pa. T. K. Sharpless, Moore School of Elec. Eng., Philadelphia, Pa. R. Taylor, Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass. C. B. Tompkins, Engineering Research Associates, Washington, D.C.