''Communications of the ACM'' (''CACM'') is the monthly

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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).

History

It was established in 1958, with

Saul Rosen Saul Rosen (February 8, 1922 – June 9, 1991) was an American computer science pioneer. He is known for designing the software of the first transistor-based computer ''Philco Transac S-2000'', and for his work on programming language desig ...

as its first managing editor. It is sent to all ACM members. Articles are intended for readers with backgrounds in all areas of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and

information systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems comprise four components: task, people, structu ...

. The focus is on the practical implications of advances in information technology and associated management issues; ACM also publishes a variety of more theoretical journals. The magazine straddles the boundary of a

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, and a

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. While the content is subject to

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, the articles published are often summaries of research that may also be published elsewhere. Material published must be accessible and relevant to a broad readership. From 1960 onward, ''CACM'' also published

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s, expressed in

ALGOL ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ...

. The collection of algorithms later became known as the Collected Algorithms of the ACM. CACM announced a transition to entirely open access in February 2024, as part of ACM's commitment to make all articles open access. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 11.1.

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