ACM GITAM
ABOUT ACM GLOBAL
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field’s premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.
ACM at GITAM:
ACM was introduced in the year 2014 at GITAM. Today, it is one of the largest student chapters at GITAM comprising 700+ students. ACM brings together budding computing scientists, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and networking.
ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking.
WHY ACM GITAM?
Since ACM was founded at the dawn of the computer age, its reach extends to every part of the globe, with more than half of its nearly 100,000 members residing outside the U.S. Its growing membership has led to Councils in Europe, India, and China, fostering networking opportunities that strengthen ties within and across countries and technical communities. Their actions enhance ACM’s ability to raise awareness of computing’s important technical, educational, and social issues around the world.
WHAT DOES ACM OFFER?
ACM offers volunteer opportunities for members and non‐members that create networking possibilities and enhance career development. At the grassroots level, ACM volunteers serve a growing international community of researchers, practitioners, and students by lending valuable assistance at conferences, publications, webinars, and other events.
Volunteers have a direct and critical impact on ACM’s governance through the ACM Council, the highest governing authority. They also serve on the ACM Executive Committee and numerous other boards and task forces.
Volunteers — members and non-members alike — hold leadership roles in ACM journal publications as Editors‐in‐Chief, Associate Editors, and reviewers. They also comprise the ACM Education Board, which provides curriculum recommendations for four‐year universities as well as community colleges. They have several domains in these colleges and universities as this helps the students to choose the area of interest they want.
And hence, with this ACM — GITAM student chapter has several different domains such as Production Design, Content writing, Public relations, and others. Each domain has does its own work in the best way it can to make ACM shine in our college.
ACM provides the following domains:
Following are the domains ACM GITAM is focused on.
A. Production and Designing Team: Responsible for carrying out activities like decoration and creative visual aid planning for upcoming events, also they must take care of all the physical builds during an event. This team also houses a special force that is dedicated to putting our thoughts and ideas into pictures that portray and deliver the message appropriately, the Graphic Designing Team, which takes care of all the visual aids and posters required.
B. Content Writing Team: Content Team is responsible for laying out the purpose and goal of any event in form of appealing tags or phrases, they are also responsible for maintaining all the written communication with the higher authorities for any forthcoming events. Play a major role in drafting and taking care of documents related to club activities. They also contribute towards the annual magazine that is released each year and houses the club’s activity throughout the year.
C. Public Relations Team: The communication gap between the student community and the club is taken care of by the Public Relations team, they bridge these gaps by interacting with the larger crowd and making them understand the objective of the club. They are also responsible to advertise the upcoming events and help to spread the reach of the club.
D. Event Management Team: All the technical and non-technical events are planned and are initiated by the management team that looks into the details of each event starting from scratch. They are responsible for executing every and making sure that the events planned are accurately timed and balanced with the student community.
E. Photography Team: Capturing each moment and organizing visual aids through motion pictures and other details are taken care of by the Photography team. f. Social Media Marketing Team: Reaching out to the larger public and maintaining a social relationship in the digital era is solely taken care of by the Social Media Team, as they handle all the social media accounts and formulate new strategies to grow and connect more.
ACM Publications — Advancing Research, Technology, and Innovation:
As a leading global source for scientific information, ACM promotes computer research and innovation through its journals, magazines, and the proceedings of more than 170 annual conferences and symposia.
ACM authors are among the world’s leading thinkers in computing and information technologies, providing original research and first-hand perspectives.
ACM also provides access to the ACM Digital Library (DL), a comprehensive and expanding database of literature and detailed bibliographic resources for computing professionals from a wide range of publishers. The DL currently includes more than 600,000 full-text articles authored by leading researchers in computing. The flagship magazine Communications of the ACM provides industry news, commentary, observations, and practical research.
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Every academic year the club presents a series of technical and non-technical events that are perfectly balanced and encapsulated in the form of our annual event known as, Techcellence.
This is the major annual event that is organized by the members of the club and is generally spanned over a week or 10 days. Maintaining a vision to help students to evolve and develop in all disciplines, the events are planned in multiple forums that a student can take part in. We also focus on non-technical events and promote the spirit of sports by housing events such as inter-college sports tournaments that include a wide range of sports, students can form teams and take part in these events to win exciting prizes.
Since the core fundamental of the club is rooted in technical aspects of computer science, we also initiate events that are technically inclined and promote new technologies. During the span of Techcellence club members also take adequate responsibility to organize events such as technical talks, mentor sessions by bringing in individuals who have achieved expertise in their concerned domains. Hackathons and workshops contribute immensely towards gaining perspective for the technical world and real-life scenarios that demand certain solutions that can be implemented using technology. We make sure students throughout the campus blend in with the culture of ACM and take part in events that contribute to their skills and interest at the same time.
With ACM and GITAM together, our main mission is to provide students with:
- Technical excellence
- Education and technical advancement
- Ethical computing and technology for positive impact
- Diversity and inclusion
There are certain goals that ACM GITAM would like to reach by 2025. They are:
- Providing a sustainably open Digital Library in 2025 to increase the visibility and accessibility of the community’s research.
- Continuing to diversify the ACM global community, providing a welcoming community for all.
- Providing the world’s leading venues (conferences, publications, magazines) for research that shapes the future of computing and careers of those in computing.
- Defining enlightened educational frameworks and resources for students and professionals to advance understanding, learning, and evolving of computing and computer science.
- Educating the public and policymakers on the benefits, potential, limits, and pitfalls of computing and computer science.
- Promoting the development and use of environmentally sustainable computing technologies and the adoption of environmentally responsible professional practices.
- Promoting ethical computing to make a positive impact across the global computing community.
CONCLUSION
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Written by ~Amrutha Karlapudi.
Edited and posted by ~Divyansh Gupta
