Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Overview#
Overview#
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing. Its objectives are to advance and promote the science and art of information processing. As documented on their website (https://www.acm.org/), 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. In relation to scientific open source, ACM promotes and celebrates the use of open source in scientific research and development. They often publish open source-related research and hold conferences on the topic, showing their support for the open source philosophy in the scientific computing community.