The ACM India Council is a new effort recently launched by ACM to recognize and support Indian ACM members and activities.

ACM has launched a new effort aimed at increasing the level and visibility of ACM activities across India. The ACM community in India is growing in membership, number of chapters, sponsored conferences and symposia.

The ACM India Council, a new organization within ACM, comprises a cross section of the computer science and information technology community committed to increasing the visibility and relevance of ACM in India. The council is focused on a wide range of ACM activities including:

• serving as a professional network for individuals who are involved with the science and technology of computing
• encouraging students to take an active interest in the emerging and exciting world of computing
• facilitating the organization of high-quality ACM conferences in India
• providing logistical support to grow more ACM professional and student chapters
• enhancing access to the ACM Digital Library and publications for ACM members in India
• increasing the participation of ACM members in India across all dimensions of ACM

 

Co-Chairs: 

• Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune
• P. J. Narayanan, IIIT Hyderabad

Members:

• Sanjeev K. Aggarwal, Dept. of CSE, IIT Kanpur
• P. Anandan, Microsoft Research India
• M. Balakrishnan, IIT Delhi
• Vivek Balaraman, Research and Development, Cognizant
• Gayatri Buragohain, Feminist Approach to Technology
• Partha Chakrabarti, IIT Kharagpur
• Subu Goparaju, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
• Pankaj Jalote, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, IIIT Delhi
• Mathai Joseph, Tata Consultancy Services and ACM Council
• K. Ananth Krishnan, Tata Consultancy Services
• C. Mohan, Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
• Prithwis Mukerjee, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT, Kharagpur
• Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute
• Girija Narlikar, Bell Labs, Mumbai
• Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Chair, ACM Bangalore Chapter and SETLabs, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
• Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay
• S. Sadagopan, IIIT Bangalore

 

The ACM India Council is encouraging all eligible ACM members in India to consider applying for advanced member status within ACM. ACM advanced member grades require five years of continuous ACM membership and varying degrees of experience and accomplishment.
List of current ACM Senior Members in India
For more information on how to nominate someone for these grades, click on these links:

Senior Member nominations

Distinguished Member nominations

Fellow nominations

Chapters

There are an increasing number of ACM chapters across India. Each of these chapters has a series of technical events that will provide you with both interesting technical content and career networking opportunities.

• ACM Professional/Special Interest Group Chapters in India
• ACM Student Chapters in India

Conferences

The first major event for the ACM community in India is set for January 21, 2010 in Bangalore, the day before COMPUTE 2010 (see below). The ACM India Launch Event will be a day-long event featuring speakers that include current and past ACM Turing Award winners, ACM officers, and Indian ACM chapter leaders. Invitations are being sent to ACM members in India.

Current news and updates about the ACM Community in India are available on the LinkedIn group ACM India.

The ACM community in India is actively involved with a large number of conferences. The following events are held periodically:

• HiPC 2009 (International Conference on High Performance Computing): Organized by ACM SIGARCH in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, December 16-19, 2009, Kochi
• COMPUTE 2010: The annual event of the ACM Bangalore Chapter in cooperation with multiple ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs), January 22-23, 2010, Bangalore
• ISEC2010 (India Software Engineering Conference): The annual conference fosused on the software engineering community in India, organized by CSI SIGSE in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT, February 25-27, 2010, Mysore

In addition, the following reputed international conferences will be held in the near future:

• PPoPP 2010 (Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming): 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming, January 9-14, 2010, Bangalore
• SIGCOMM 2010: August 30-September 3, 2010, New Delhi
• WWW 2011: Hyderabad

View more upcoming conferences on the ACM Events in India listing page.

For more information on ACM India contact: acmindia@acm.org