ACM SIGACT

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. It was founded in 1968 by Patrick C. Fischer.

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 or has sponsored several annual conferences.

COLT: Conference on Learning Theory, until 1999
PODC: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
PODS: ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
POPL: ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
SOCG: ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, until 2014
SODA: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 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 and libra.

Awards and prizes

Gödel Prize, for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science
Donald E. Knuth Prize, for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science
Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing
Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics
Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award
Best Paper Award for ACM STOC and IEEE FOCS conference papers
ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award

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