Membership Benefits
There are many reasons to join ACM. When you become a member, you become a part of the dynamic changes that are transforming our world, by helping to shape the future of computing. ACM provides the tools and resources to help get you there, by advancing your career and enriching your knowledge with life-long learning resources.
ACM Professional and Student members enjoy these benefits:
Networking Opportunities:
- A vast network of nearly 100,000 highly dedicated student and professional peers
- ACM's Career & Job Center, where you will find targeted job opportunities and more
- The opportunity to join one or more of ACM's Special Interest Groups in 37 specialty areas of IT
- Become a member of computing community through one of hundreds of Professional and Student Chapters worldwide
- Unique volunteering opportunities to gain hands-on experience and knowledge of the marketplace
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Learning Center with resources for lifelong learning, including online courses targeted toward essential IT skills and popular certifications; online books & videos from Skillsoft®, online books from Safari®, Morgan Kaufmann and Syngress; videos and webinars on hot topics, presented by today's innovators |
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The option to subscribe to the full ACM Digital Library, which includes over 2 million pages of text |
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Ability to search DL, access bibliographic citations, view article abstracts |
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A full year (12 issues) print subscription to Communications of the ACM |
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A full year (12 issues) online subscription to Communications of the ACM |
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A full-year (4 issues) subscription to XRDS: Crossroads, ACM's Student Magazine |
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A full-year electronic subscription to monthly MemberNet newsletter |
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Student Quick Takes (ACM's quarterly newsletters) |
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TechNews (ACM's tri-weekly email IT news digest); |
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CareerNews, ACM's twice monthly email career news digest |
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Relaunched acmqueue, with iPhone and Android apps, featuring high-quality, trusted, relevant material for practitioners |
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Ubiquity, ACM's IT opinion magazine and forum, and eLearn, ACM's magazine dedicated to distance education |
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Discounts on subscriptions to ACM journals, magazines, books, and conferences. Exclusive subscription pricing on ACM Books series. |
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A free email forwarding address with high-quality spam filtering |
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Special discounts and access to valuable products and services through the ACM's Insurance and Discounts and Special Offers programs |
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Technical Interest Profile Alerts |
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Participation in ACM Distinguished Speakers Program (DSP) |
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Voting for ACM Officers |
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Please Note: ACM reserves the right to change or substitute the benefits, products or services included with membership.
Shape the Future of Computing!
For over 70 years, ACM has helped computing professionals to be their most creative, connect to peers, and see what’s next. Joining ACM means you dare to be the best computing professional you can be.
Be Creative. Stay connected. Keep inventing.
Why I Belong to ACM
Hear from Bryan Cantrill, vice president of engineering at Joyent, Ben Fried chief information officer at Google, and Theo Schlossnagle, OmniTI founder on why they are members of ACM.
ACM Student Research Competition
The ACM Student Research Competition, sponsored by Microsoft, is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate students to experience the research world, share research results and exchange ideas, rub shoulders with academic and industry luminaries, understand the practical applications of their research and gain recognition.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
Known as the "Battle of the Brains," the world's oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest serves as a proving ground for the top collegiate programmers, challenging them to solve a series of complex real-world problems in just five hours. Student teams from more than 120 countries race against the clock in a grueling battle of logic, strategy and mental endurance.
