ACM Membership

Doris Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Ponder. Doris received her PhD from the UC Berkeley RISE Lab and School of Information in 2021, where she developed tools that help data scientists explore and understand their data. She is the recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 for Enterprise Technology in 2023. Her lectures include "Data Science at Scale Everywhere for Everyone," in which she explores the limitations of these tools and pain points that data scientists encounter when dealing with data at scale.

The ACM Student Research Competition 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.

Elizabeth K. “Beth” Hawthorne is a Full Professor and Graduate Program Director of Cybersecurity at Northeastern University's Arlington, Virginia campus. Previously, she spent 26 years at Union College in Cranford, New Jersey—retiring as Senior Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Cybersecurity. She has been active with ACM’s education initiatives for decades. In her interview, Hawthorne discusses what sparked her interest in cybersecurity, the role of community colleges in computing education, the significance of AI in CS2023, her work on Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W, and more.

Ramón Cáceres is a computer science researcher and software engineer who most recently built large-scale privacy infrastructure at Google. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Bell Labs, IBM Research, and AT&T Labs. His areas of focus have included systems and networks, mobile and edge computing, mobility modeling, security, and privacy. In his interview, Cáceres working on Google's global authorization system Zanzibar, receiving the 2022 ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award, the union of mobile computing, artificial intelligence, and privacy preservation, widening participation in computing, and more

ACM offers lifelong learning resources including online books and courses from Skillsoft, TechTalks on the hottest topics in computing and IT, and more.

Encourage your colleagues to join ACM, share the benefits of ACM and receive free gifts for participating. Your support of ACM is critical to our continuing efforts to advance computing as a science and a profession. 

Do you have questions about your member benefits, how to update your contact information, how to renew your membership, or claim missing issues? If so, visit ACM’s Customer Service FAQs for answers to these questions and more.

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.