ACM or The Association for Computing Machinery is an international organisation and the world’s largest scientific and educational society in computational and information technology. It is headquartered in New York City and annually hosts the prestigious Turing award for outstanding achievements in Computer Science. A number of notable names in the field have been directly or indirectly involved with ACM such as Vint Cerf, Edsger Dijkstra, Donald Knuth, etc.
The club is responsible for creating an environment where members can explore a myriad of upcoming skills in both industry and research in a fun and engaging manner. With the fast paced growth of the world around us, we see a bunch of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, ethical hacking, data science, web development, blockchain, internet-of-things (IoT), quantum computing, computational biology and more! Our goal is to have our members primed and ready with the essentials and foundations required to be literate in these fields so that they have a competitive advantage over the average B.E student when they graduate. We achieve this by inviting industry professionals and research scientists for talks and seminars on these technologies and also by fostering a student-to-student mentorship for sessions and workshops to induce collaborative learning.
Yes! You are eligibile for both the official ACM and BPDC ACM's student membership options. We hold a number of interdisciplinary events and programs where our members pick up inisghts and skills in various fields. While the club activities are mainly tailored for improving CS skills, students from other engineering disciplines can benefit from being a part of these programs.