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.
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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: Conference on Learning Theory
- PODC: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (jointly sponsored by SIGOPS)
- PODS: ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
- POPL: ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
- SoCG: 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). Two annual workshops held in conjunction with SODA also have the same joint sponsorship:
- ALENEX: Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments
- ANALCO: Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics
- SPAA: ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
- STOC: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing
COLT, PODC, PODS, POPL, SODA, and STOC are all listed as highly cited venues by both citeseerx[1] and libra.[2]
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 Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing)
- Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing (sponsored jointly with SIGOPS, EATCS, and companies)[3]
- Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing (ACM Award co-sponsored by SIGACT)
- Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics (ACM Award co-sponsored by SIGACT)
- Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award
- Best Paper Award for ACM STOC and IEEE FOCS conference papers
- ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
Notes
- ^ citeseerx venue impact factor, citeseerx.
- ^ Libra Conferences, LIBRA.
- ^ PODC web site: Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing.
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