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The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is an international professional society (similar to the IEEE or IPENZ, for example). You might want to check the [ACM Website|http://www.acm.org/] for a detailed description of what the ACM provide; a brief description is that they run a digital library, sponsor conferences, that kind of thing.
-The ACM like running student chapters in Universities, in order to increase their membership. WaikatoUniversity have one of these; basically, it's a group(
similar in scope to the WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup, but with a general CS focus)
. It can do whatever it wants; previously we
've had talks from a couple of CS professors and looked after the organisation of a graduate students' roadshow of NZ.
+The ACM like running student chapters in Universities, in order to increase their membership. WaikatoUniversity have one of these [see Waikato's chapter page|http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/studentacm/]
; basically, it's a group similar in scope to the WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup, but with a general CS focus. It can do whatever it wants; previously they
've had talks from a couple of CS professors and looked after the organisation of a graduate students' roadshow of NZ.
There are chapters in heaps of other universities; in NZ, there's Auckland, Massey, Victoria and Canterbury.
-I personally think it's counterproductive
to have two of these things running that have
a large overlap of people. It would be nice to involve them a bit more together
.
+The ACM chapter at Waikato has often languished with respect
to the WLUG having
a very
large overlap in its area
of interest
.
