ACM Fellowship is an award and
fellowship
A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned or professional societies, the term refers ...
that recognises outstanding members of the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
(ACM).
The title of ACM
Fellow
A fellow is a title and form of address for distinguished, learned, or skilled individuals in academia, medicine, research, and industry. The exact meaning of the term differs in each field. In learned society, learned or professional society, p ...
indicates excellence, as evinced by technical, professional and leadership contributions that:
* advance computing
* promote the free exchange of ideas
* advance the objectives of ACM
At most 1% of the ACM membership may be elected as Fellows.
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New fellows are elected annually since 1993.]
See also
* Fellows of the ACM (by year)
* Fellows of the ACM (category)
References
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