Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) useful resources for you and your organization
The ACM, the largest non-profit in computing, has much to offer to support you and your organization. I will continue to share ACM news, videos, webinars and resources with you. I use all of them and find them indispensible in ALL of my work. A key part of the resources available can be found in the ACM Learning Center:
A notable upcoming conference is Applicative 2015 February 25-27. Applicative is ACM's conference designed for software developers interested in the latest in emerging technologies and techniques. The conference consists of two tracks, one looking at system-level programming and the other at application development.
I am a member of their practitioner board and chairman practitioner board professional development committee (PDC).
Background: This ACM link contains board members and committee members:
https://www.acm.org/about/annual-reports-current-fy/Practitioners-FY14.doc .
The PDC oversees ACM Learning Center products and services such as courses, webinars, podcasts, videos, books, tutorials, techpacks, . etc. The practitioner board and committees consists of notable authorities in computing who have made significant contributions which are discoverable through internet searches. The ACM reach is 3.4 million, with 1.5 million users of the digital library and is the largest organization in computing science (500 events and conferences, 78 newsletters/publications, 36 special interest groups such as SIGGRAPH, the top awards in computing science such as the ACM Turing Award which is now 1 million in prize money and considered the Nobel Prize of computing. Interviews with past winners have appeared here in IT Manager.