What is the mission of the ACM?
Our mission is fairly broad – the key part is to advance the state of the art in information technology and computing. And that mission is not just to serve the needs of the profession, whether it’s a researcher or practitioner, but to also really serve the needs of the public. ACM has done the best job serving the research community, or the advanced development community, but we have, over the years, reached out to fulfill our broader mission. We’re beginning to take on some pretty serious issues, issues like education in general, like diversity and gender equity in our field. I think we all agree that information technology is transforming our lives today and will continue to transform life in the future. ACM, having established a world-class program to disseminate information, is realizing it has a huge responsibility to play a lead role in ensuring that information technology contributes to the future in the best way possible. Because of that, we start worrying about education, bot
