Computer Science
"... it's hard to think of a domain that's going to change the world one-hundredth as much as advanced software will in the decades ahead." -- Bill Gates
Professional Organizations
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- "...advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students worldwide" Special interest groups in architecture (SIGARCH), computer science education (SIGCSE), computers and society (SIGCAS), computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), programming languages (SIGPLAN), and others
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- "...international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation." Special interest groups in computational semantics (SIGSEM), discourse and dialogue (SIGdial), morphology and phonology (SIGMORPHON).
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- "...devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines." Special topics include ethical & social implications, games & puzzles, machine learning, reasoning, among others.
