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What's New:
ACM Distinguished Speakers Panel Visits Three Universities in China
Read and listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of Stephen Ibaraki's interviews with the three prominent women researchers about their experience.

Online Registration Now Available for SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
The second SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 conference follows a very successful inaugural conference last year, where researchers, developers, producers, and providers of computer graphics and interactive techniques found a new international venue in which to newtork and share ideas. The 2009 conference, which will take place December 16 to 19 in Yokohama, will include an Art Gallery; Computer Animation Festival; Courses; Educators, Emerging Techologies, and Student Internship programs; sketches and posters; and papers. Visit the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 web site and Facebook page for more information.

ACM Membership: The Best Way to Advance Your Career
For Professionals & Students:
· 3 membership options for professionals; one for students that includes access to ACM’s Digital Library,
see “join” above (Pay for ACM membership dues in RMB).
· Subscription to the digital edition of Communications of the ACM, ACM's monthly membership magazine
· Access to 2,500+ online courses in multiple languages, and 1,000 virtual labs
· Access to 1,100 online books for professionals, 500 for students
· Access to free software and courseware through ACM's Student Academic Initiative
· Subscriptions to ACM’s 3 online news digests – TechNews, CareerNews, and MemberNet
· Discounts on registration for ACM Special Interest Group Conferences
· Technical Interest Profile Alerts customized to your technical interests
· Students may participate in free e-mentoring program
· Free “acm.org” email forwarding address + filtering through Postini

What is ACM?

ACM is the premier educational and scientific membership organization uniting the world’s computing educators, researchers, professionals and students. ACM strengthens the profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, pro-motion of the highest ethical and technical standards, and recognition of technical excellence.

ACM’s 85,000+ members come from industry, academia, and government institutions worldwide.

What does ACM do?

ACM carries out its mission of advancing computing as a science and profession through conferences, publications, educational programs, and special interest groups. It sponsors over 120 conferences annually, as well as publishes, distributes, and archives more than 40 publications that provide original research and perspectives from the world’s leading thinkers.

ACM Resources for Everyone:

ACM will enrich your professional, educational, and research life with our:

• Digital Library containing full-text of all ACM publications and conference proceedings, and the Guide to Computing Literature, a database with 1-million+ bibliographic citations
• Special Interest Groups sponsoring 120+ conferences worldwide
• World-class Publications
• Online Books & Courses
• Student Member Benefits, Professional Member Benefits
• ACM Local Chapters

1-2-3, How to Get Started as a Member?

1. Join ACM as a Student or Professional Member. Read the Payment Instructions page.
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ACM China Office
East Main Building 10-104
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China (100084)

Contact: Ms. Xie Yuyuan

Phone: +86-10-62787704
Email: Chinaacm.org

Office Hours: 8:00am – 12:00 am , 1:00pm-5:00pm

Featured Items at acm.org:

myACM: is your control center for managing your membership.

E-mentoring for ACM Student Members: All ACM Student Members can get a professional mentor and communicate via email.

ACM Announces its new Career & Job Center.

ACM announces its newest award, the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recognizing contributions of young computer scientists.

ACM’s Turing Award (known as the Nobel Prize in Computing) prize raised to $250,000 (USD) – Google joins Intel in sponsoring this award.