ACM SIGACT

ACM SIGACT

ACM SIGACT or SIGACT is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in theoretical computer science.

Publications

SIGACT publishes a quarterly print newsletter, "SIGACT News". Its online version, "SIGACT News Online", is available since 1996 for SIGACT members, with unrestricted access to some features.

Conferences

SIGACT sponsors a number of annual conferences.

*COLT: Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory
*IOPADS: I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems
*PODC: Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
*PODS: Principles of Database Systems
*POPL: ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
*SoCG: Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (jointly sponsored by SIGGRAPH)
*SODA: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (jointly sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
*SPAA: ACM Annual Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
*STOC: Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing

COLT, PODC, PODS, POPL, SODA, and STOC were all listed in the top tier of academic computer science conferences (ranking "A+") by a 2005–2007 ranking exercise conducted by the Australian Computing Research and Education Association. The same exercise ranked SPAA and SoCG at the second tier (ranking "A"). IOPADS was not ranked. [ [http://www.core.edu.au/rankings/Conference%20Ranking%20Main.html Final 2007 Australian ranking of ICT conferences] , CORE.]

Awards and prizes

*Gödel Prize, for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science (sponsored jointly with EATCS)
*Donald E. Knuth Prize, for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science (sponsored jointly with IEEE TCMFCS)
*ACM awards co-sponsored by SIGACT
**Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing
**Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
*ACM-SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
*Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award
*Best Paper Award (SIGACT) for ACM STOC and IEEE FOCS conference papers

References

External links

* [http://sigact.acm.org/ SIGACT webpage]
* [http://sigact.acm.org/sigactnews/online.html SIGACT News Online]


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