The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Association for Computing
Association for Computing Machinery

    (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing
   Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific
   and educational computer society in the industry.  Founded in
   1947, only a year after the unveiling of ENIAC, ACM was
   established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to
   advance the science and application of Information
   Technology.  John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was
   one of ACM's founders.

   Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world
   of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on
   developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful
   interchange of ideas.

   ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers,
   practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the
   Association's major programs and services - publications,
   special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and
   special activities.

   The ACM Press publishes journals (notably CACM), book
   series, conference proceedings, CD-ROM, hypertext,
   video, and specialized publications such as curricula
   recommendations and self-assessment procedures.

   (http://info.acm.org/).

   (1998-02-24)