ACM Membership

Laura Haas is Dean of the College of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor, from which DB2 LUW was developed; on Garlic, a system that allowed integration of heterogeneous data sources; and on Clio, the first semi-automatic tool for heterogeneous schema mapping. Among other awards, Haas received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award. She is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Qi He is Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, where he leads a team of machine learning specialists, software engineers and linguistic specialists to standardize LinkedIn data and build the LinkedIn Knowledge Graph. An ACM Distinguished Member, he has authored 70 publications in areas including information extraction, data mining, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. He is on the Board of Directors of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).

Wil van der Aalst is a Professor and head of the Process and Data Science (PADS) group at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. He has often been called “the Godfather of Process Mining,” an emerging field that bridges the gap between traditional business management techniques and modern data science techniques. He is the author of the definitive textbook Process Mining, as well as over 250 journal papers, 22 books (as author or editor), 550 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 80 book chapters. Van der Aalst is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and IFIP.

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.

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Learn more about ACM’s commitment to ethical standards: the ACM Code of Ethics, Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, and Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE), which is guiding these and other intiatives.

You can use your technical skills for social good and offer volunteer support on software development projects to organizations who could not otherwise afford it. SocialCoder connects volunteer programmers/software developers with registered charities and helps match them to suitable projects based on their skills, experience, and the causes they care about. Learn more about ACM’s new partnership with SocialCoder, and how you can get involved.

ACM has launched a local events initiative in several major US cities to help computer professionals like you build personal networks of smart technical people nearby. You can share work experiences and insight, discuss new research ideas and provide guidance in finding a job or launching a new venture.