About the Princeton ACM

We are the Princeton University student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, an organization dedicated to furthering knowledge of the computing field. Princeton's ACM chapter was founded in 1968, making it one of the older ACM student chapters. After a period of inactivity it is now under new management, and the current officers are really excited about trying to involve the Princeton community in cool things like the Distinguished Lecturer Series, the Collegiate Programming Contest, and our elegant resume book. The current officers are:

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ACM is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information and by prompting the highest professional and ethical standards.

In 1947, a year after the first successful electronic computer (ENIAC) was unveiled, ACM became the first and remains the largest international scientific and educational computer society in the world. It was formed as a forum for the exchange of information, knowledge and ideas that would advance the development of computing technology and its emergent industry. Over the years, ACM's membership has included most of the men and women who led the world into what is now called the Information Age. ACM membership today consists of some 80,000 men and women - about 90 percent between the ages of 25 and 54, and 65 percent with a masters degree or higher; one third of them all started out as student members.

ACM established Student Chapters to provide an opportunity for students to play a more active role in the Association and its professional activities. Today, more than 500 colleges and universities throughout the world participate in the ACM Student Chapter Program, whose aims are to enhance learning through exchange of ideas among students, and between established professionals and students. Examples of student programs with this goal are the ACM Lectureship Program and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.