1. Association for Computing Machinery The First Society in Computing Ioanna Stamouli Chair of the First ACM Student Chapter of Greece CITY Liberal Studies

2. What is ACM? ACM is a vast network of professionals and students who share a common passion: Information Technology The main goal of ACM is to help the world fully realise the potential of the science of computing ACM is involved in several professional activities

3. ACM activities Towards the previously stated goal ACM is involved in the following activities:  Organisation of worldwide conferences  Offering of more than 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs)  Publication of renowned journal and magazines  Development of standards  Development of curriculum  Many other activities…

4. ACM student chapters ACM student chapters provide an opportunity for students to take a more active part in the professional activities of ACM A student chapter membership allows one to exercise leadership abilities, communication, team building skills… But there are other benefits as well…

5. ACM student membership benefits The ACM portal package ($40) includes:  A one-year online subscription to Communications of ACM, the most-cited publication in computing  A one-year subscription to ACM Portal, a 40-year archive of ACM journals, magazines and conference proceedings  A one-year print subscription to Crossroads, the ACM student magazine  An “@acm.org” email forwarding address  Special discounts at ACM-sponsored conferences, journals, magazines, ACM Press books, and others…

6. 1 st ACM student chapter of Greece The ACM student chapter of CITY Liberal Studies is the 1 st ACM student chapter in Greece Sponsor: Dr Panayiotis H. Ketikidis Chapter’s page: http://www.city.academic.gr/acm/ Activities organised so far:  1 st Student Conference on Advances in Software Engineering and Image Processing  Cooperation for the organisation of this conference