ACM SIGACT

<h2 id="publications">Publications</h2>
<p>SIGACT publishes a quarterly print newsletter, <i>SIGACT News</i>. Its online version, <i>SIGACT News Online</i>, is available since 1996 for SIGACT members, with unrestricted access to some features.
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<h2 id="conferences">Conferences</h2>
<p>SIGACT sponsors or has sponsored several annual conferences.
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<ul><li>COLT: Conference on Learning Theory, until 1999<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
<li>PODC: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Distributed_Computing/BjmmcevU">Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing</a> (jointly sponsored by SIGOPS)</li>
<li>PODS: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Database_Systems/vuM91P0L">Symposium on Principles of Database Systems</a> (jointly sponsored by <a href="/facts/SIGAI/TBIspFyb">SIGAI</a> and <a href="/facts/SIGACT/E4QBwEy8">SIGACT</a>)</li>
<li>POPL: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Programming_Languages/kS3uDAkn">Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages</a></li>
<li>SOCG: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Computational_Geometry/wGEQJSPR">Symposium on Computational Geometry</a> (jointly sponsored by <a href="/facts/SIGGRAPH/gmRKkIlG">SIGGRAPH</a>), until 2014<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li>SODA: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (jointly sponsored by the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics/2HY4T5WY">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics</a>). Two annual workshops held in conjunction with SODA also have the same joint sponsorship:
<ul><li>ALENEX: Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments</li>
<li>ANALCO: Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics</li></ul></li>
<li>SPAA: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Parallelism_in_Algorithms_and_Architectures/RSdtDgyV">Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures</a></li>
<li>STOC: ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_the_Theory_of_Computing/xsemn7kG">Symposium on the Theory of Computing</a></li></ul>
<p>COLT, PODC, PODS, POPL, SODA, and STOC are all listed as highly cited venues by both citeseerx<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and libra.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="awards-and-prizes">Awards and prizes</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/G%C3%B6del_Prize/RdbqdDj6">Gödel Prize</a>, for outstanding papers in  theoretical computer science (sponsored jointly with <a href="/facts/EATCS/4jlopeDl">EATCS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Donald_E._Knuth_Prize/NHzBNXUE">Donald E. Knuth Prize</a>, for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science (sponsored jointly with <a href="/facts/IEEE_Computer_Society/asUJfKHp">IEEE Computer Society</a>'s Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Edsger_W._Dijkstra_Prize/WUMmjNwF">Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize</a> in distributed computing (sponsored jointly with SIGOPS, <a href="/facts/EATCS/4jlopeDl">EATCS</a>, and companies)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Paris_Kanellakis_Theory_and_Practice_Award/vLyawCQ7">Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award</a>, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing (<a href="/facts/Association_for_Computing_Machinery/abI2atlP">ACM</a> Award co-sponsored by SIGACT)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Eugene_L._Lawler_Award/LhAtJY0S">Eugene L. Lawler Award</a> for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics (ACM Award co-sponsored by SIGACT)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Danny_Lewin_Best_Student_Paper_Award/xsemn7kG">Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award</a></li>
<li>Best Paper Award for ACM <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Theory_of_Computing/xsemn7kG">STOC</a> and <a href="/facts/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers/UddC4pUW">IEEE</a> <a href="/facts/Symposium_on_Foundations_of_Computer_Science/t0BvR59t">FOCS</a> conference papers</li>
<li>ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://sigact.acm.org/">Official website</a></li>
<li><a href="http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J697">SIGACT News</a> on ACM Digital Library</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Vitello, Paul (August 31, 2011), "Patrick C. Fischer, Early Unabomber Target, Is Dead at 75", The New York Times. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html?_r=1" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html?_r=1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Event: COLT". acm.org. <a href="http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE249" target="_blank">http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE249</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Results of the Vote". Making SOCG. 16 July 2014. <a href="http://makingsocg.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/results-of-the-vote/" target="_blank">http://makingsocg.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/results-of-the-vote/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>citeseerx venue impact factor Archived February 16, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, citeseerx. <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Libra Conferences Archived May 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, LIBRA. <a href="http://libra.msra.cn/conf_category_24.htm" target="_blank">http://libra.msra.cn/conf_category_24.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>PODC web site: Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Distributed_Computing" target="_blank">/wiki/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Distributed_Computing</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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