Any members of the (ACM) Association for Computing Machinery?
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
Pete BSC wrote:
Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession
Sounds like an oxymoron to me. Marc
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
I was back in college. Really they have a good periodical with nice articles but I can't see the MS fan club being interested in something so pedestrian as computer science.
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
No, but I am a member and leading founder of CIPGCMM (Complete Idiots who Pretend to be Good at Computing to Make Money) - membership is £500 a year. Email me if you want any further details. :)
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
I have access to the Digital Library through my university. It is wonderful, however, its search feature is the worst on earth. I use the library all the time for my research. When it comes to finding related work and keeping up on the newest info on a specific area it can't be beat.
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
Pete BSC wrote:
I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits.
I have used the tutorials, online books, etc. But I am also a member of the Siggraph special interest group, so most of my benefit comes from the Siggraph journals and discounts to ACM events, especially, but not limited to Siggraph. I have also attended several conventions on computer human interfaces, though I am not a member of their CHI group. There is benefit there, the question more to the point is how much you are likely to use. If you will use the benefits that are there, there are many to make it worthwhile. If you have already used the ones you need, and are not a member of a special interest group, you may start loosing interest in the ACM as the benefits no longer are benefiting you. It all comes down, in the end, to you. :) So my answer is, how many of those benefits you looked at do you intend to use? and yes, the search makes MSDN look good.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
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Pete BSC wrote:
I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits.
I have used the tutorials, online books, etc. But I am also a member of the Siggraph special interest group, so most of my benefit comes from the Siggraph journals and discounts to ACM events, especially, but not limited to Siggraph. I have also attended several conventions on computer human interfaces, though I am not a member of their CHI group. There is benefit there, the question more to the point is how much you are likely to use. If you will use the benefits that are there, there are many to make it worthwhile. If you have already used the ones you need, and are not a member of a special interest group, you may start loosing interest in the ACM as the benefits no longer are benefiting you. It all comes down, in the end, to you. :) So my answer is, how many of those benefits you looked at do you intend to use? and yes, the search makes MSDN look good.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
I am a member for last 20 years, However real world and ACM has large Inpedence mismatch. However Research Papers and Survey papers are useful. Implementation and coding is generally overlooked.
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I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits. I seem to get their snail mail recruitment letter every 6 months or so. One thing I did notice is they offer online books as part of the membership; however when I looked into it further you have to pay extra to get the whole library...:confused: http://www.acm.org/[^] Thanks
I've been a member in the past, but gave it up. Too academic for me...
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I've been a member in the past, but gave it up. Too academic for me...
As mentioned, code is generally overlooked in all papers, because it deals with research and it is like that everywhere (implementation details are kept somewhat secret; not a bad thing if you think about it). It is bleeding edge that helps you think about algorithms and data structures (not another WinForms and ASP.NET form, dataset, Rocky, state or list/grid/tree view). They do not put their acronym next to Turing award for nothing.. of course you can live without it, but don't expect to be able to get on by in any science area without papers. Like with ACM, you can get your employer to pay for it, and you can always join the .NET club and pretend your form-based app and web interface for a few shops is the meaning of life.
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As mentioned, code is generally overlooked in all papers, because it deals with research and it is like that everywhere (implementation details are kept somewhat secret; not a bad thing if you think about it). It is bleeding edge that helps you think about algorithms and data structures (not another WinForms and ASP.NET form, dataset, Rocky, state or list/grid/tree view). They do not put their acronym next to Turing award for nothing.. of course you can live without it, but don't expect to be able to get on by in any science area without papers. Like with ACM, you can get your employer to pay for it, and you can always join the .NET club and pretend your form-based app and web interface for a few shops is the meaning of life.
Hey, I didn't imply that ACM is not good, for certain people. If research, academics, 'the bleeding edge of science' is what you're looking for, be my guest. But the poster ask for our opinion, and for me personally it's too academic. And no, .NET is not my meaning of life, but neither is IT in general, nor 'bleeding edge science'...
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Pete BSC wrote:
I am curious if anyone is a member of this group for "Advanced Computing as a Science & Profession" and your opinion of the benefits.
I have used the tutorials, online books, etc. But I am also a member of the Siggraph special interest group, so most of my benefit comes from the Siggraph journals and discounts to ACM events, especially, but not limited to Siggraph. I have also attended several conventions on computer human interfaces, though I am not a member of their CHI group. There is benefit there, the question more to the point is how much you are likely to use. If you will use the benefits that are there, there are many to make it worthwhile. If you have already used the ones you need, and are not a member of a special interest group, you may start loosing interest in the ACM as the benefits no longer are benefiting you. It all comes down, in the end, to you. :) So my answer is, how many of those benefits you looked at do you intend to use? and yes, the search makes MSDN look good.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
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I've been a member in the past, but gave it up. Too academic for me...
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Hey, I didn't imply that ACM is not good, for certain people. If research, academics, 'the bleeding edge of science' is what you're looking for, be my guest. But the poster ask for our opinion, and for me personally it's too academic. And no, .NET is not my meaning of life, but neither is IT in general, nor 'bleeding edge science'...
Paul Horstink wrote:
'the bleeding edge of science'
much of what they do they have unapplied theoretical discoveries... I apply them. sometimes to things and in ways they would never dream of.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg
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As mentioned, code is generally overlooked in all papers, because it deals with research and it is like that everywhere (implementation details are kept somewhat secret; not a bad thing if you think about it). It is bleeding edge that helps you think about algorithms and data structures (not another WinForms and ASP.NET form, dataset, Rocky, state or list/grid/tree view). They do not put their acronym next to Turing award for nothing.. of course you can live without it, but don't expect to be able to get on by in any science area without papers. Like with ACM, you can get your employer to pay for it, and you can always join the .NET club and pretend your form-based app and web interface for a few shops is the meaning of life.