Professional Computer Science Related Groups

ACM - is the Association for Computing Machinery. They are the largest educational and scientific computer society. ACM provides the computing field's premeir digital library and serves it's members with publications, conferences and career resources, they are

"Advancing Computing as a Science and a Profession."


- a professional membership with ACM lasts for 12 months, with a large amount of options for membership.


- there is a tri-weekly IT news digest, a bi-weekly IT careers news digest, over 2,500 online courses, 1,000 virtual labs, and 1,100 online books, and full access to ACM's Career Center for members (included in membership dues).


-ACM's contact info.

Phone: 1-(212)-869-7440
Web Address: acmhelp@acm.org


Mailing Address:
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701
New York, NY 10121-0701
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ACL - is the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL is "THE international and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation."

- Membership includes the ACL's quartly journal, Computational Linguistics, reduced registration at most ACL sponsored conferences, discounts on ACL sponsored publications, and participation in ACL special interest groups. You must fill out an application to become a member. ACL has different payment options 1 year costing $60 dollars for a regular member, an unemployed student membership costs $30 dollars, a member who is retired also must pay $30 dollars, as well as someone who is unemployed. There is also an option for people who are having hard financial times, who's membership costs half of what is regularly due.

- When signing up to be a member you can check to have a newsletter sent to your email address. Other available documents would be the quartly journal: Computational Linguistics.

-ACL's contact info.
Phone:1-(570)-476-8006
Web Address: acl@org.aclweb

Mailing Address:
209 North Eighth Street
Stroudsburg PA, 18360
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W3C - is the World Wide Web Consortium. The World Wide Web Consortium is an international community that develops standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web. W3C's mission: to lead the Web to its full potential.

- Membership just a few of the membership benefits to the W3C are: The opportunity to interact and work directly with the leading companies, organizations, and individuals in the Web world; The ability to provide strategic direction to the Consortium through review of W3C activity proposals and operational policies; Participate in W3C working groups, where specifications and guidelines are developed, and in W3C interest groups, where discussions are conducted. Fees for the United States are: $68,500 USD for PROFIT organizations that have an annual gross revenue of greater than or equal to $50,000,000 (50 million) USD; $7,900 USD for all other organizations including non-profit organizations and government agencies.

- There is no newsletter available, but there is access to a member-only website for early information on emerging Web technologies, software, events, forums, news and announcements.

-W3C's contact info.
Phone:1-(617)-253-2613
Web Address: susan@w3.org or karen@w3.org

Mailing Address:
32 Vassar Street
Room 32-G515
Cambridge, MA 02139