wdr@wang.com (William Ricker) (08/28/90)
In comp.software-eng koerberm@nixin.nixdorf.com writes: >[... stuff deleted ] >>The collected algorithms of the ACM has an algorithm for converting >[...] >>dealing with overflow into years. The ACM book describes the weekday >What is the ACM (guess: American Computing Monthly?,A magazine or so?). Good guess. There are those who would say you are correct, given that the ACM overseas membership is so thouroughly swamped by US'ans. The ACM is, however, officially international, although we tend to refer to HQ in NY,NY as 'national headquarters' when speaking loosely. Members of several overseas, national computing societies are eligible for US$13 discount on the $67 annual membership (&CACM subscription) fee, a better discount than offered to the IEEE-CS, a sister quasi-international national. The Association for Computing Machinery 11 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 USA +1 212 869 7440 is commonly referred to as "The ACM". The acm (trademark is lowercase, I believe) is a scientific & educational organization, chartered as a non-profit organization under US tax code for "the development of information processing as a discipline, and to the responsible use of computers in an increasing diversit of applications. The purposes of the [acm] are: (1) To advance the scineces and arts of .... (2) To promote the free interchange of information about... (3) To develop and maintain the integrity anc competence of individuals engaged in the practices of[,] the sciences and arts of information processing." [CACM masthead] In addition to member services more typical of professional organizations -- which under US tax law the acm is not --, the acm sponsors academic & practical conferences and publishs a number of journals etc, which are distributed world-over, including CACM (Communications of ...), JACM (Journal Of..., more scholarly), and TOMS and TODS (Transactions on Mathematical Software and Transactions on Database Systems), among many others. Anytime a new and interesting algorithm is published in any of its refereed publications, including the above, it is given a serial number and added to the next edition of /Collected Algorithms from ACM/. On Page 279 of the current volume of CACM (33.3, March '90), I find the followng Advertisment: ---- Even a single use of a CALGO algorithm will save many times the cost of the subscription... /COLECTED ALGORITHMS FROM THE acm/ Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Renka University of North Texas /Collected Algorithms of the ACM/ (CALGO) offers quartely code listings in machine readable and microfiche form. Even a single use of a CALGO algorithm will save many times the cost of a subscription. The code listings for an algorithm printed in any of the ACM journals is included in microfiche format in its entirety. Remarks and certifications are also given, often with driver code. Floppy disk and magnetic-tape versions are availabe separately through the ACM Algorithms Distribution Service (address in box). Initial subscription, 4 volumes: includes casebound Vols. I, II, III and louseleaf volume IV, with a 3-ring binder, one year's quarterly Supplements of new and updated algorithms, complete listings on microfishe for those algorithms (from 1981) and a fishe holder. Order No. 120000 $270.00 --- Mbrs $150 --- Student Mbrs. $145/year [...Vol I-IV separately...] Annual Subscription -- Supplements: $50.00 Mbrs. $30.00 Student Mbrs. $25/year. Please send all orders and inquires to: acm PRESS PO Box 12115 Church Street Station New York, NY 10249 (USA) ---- Overseas prices will probably vary, although they may be able to ship sea-freight to their euro-distribution center, but I suspect you're in hurry, in which case paying airfreight for the single volume required -- if you can't copy it at a local library -- might be advised. Membership Services is net-accessible via BITNET/CSNET, but I don't believe you can order materials that way. (I certainly wouldn't send my credit card numbers through an un-encripted store&forward network, anyway!) ---- Bill Ricker, a former ACM activist If my library here doesn't have a copy, maybe I should order CALGO. -- /bill ricker/ wdr@wang.com a/k/a wricker@northeastern.edu *** Warning: This account not authorized to express opinions ***