Very unscientific poll just out of curiosity.
What percentage of people on here are members of the Association for Computing Machinery? Or have at least heard of it?
I had never heard of this organization before last week and know nothing about it.

#poll #techworkers #infosec #ACM #AssociationForComputingMachinery

🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one!

Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏

🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/apel

#SIC #saarlandinformaticscampus #UdS #saarlanduniversity #softwareengineering #associationforcomputingmachinery #ACMfellowship #research #computerscience #softwareresearch #topingermany

@ACM transitions to 100% #OpenAccess

Effective 1 January 2026, the #AssociationForComputingMachinery has made all its publications openly available.

In this interview, #ACM President and OpenAIRE founding member Yannis Ioannidis discusses the motivations, implementation challenges, and expected impact of this decision on research accessibility, sustainability, & #reproducibility.

🔗Read more https://www.openaire.eu/opening-computing-research-to-the-world-acm-moves-to-100-open-access

#OpenScience #ResearchInfrastructure #ScholarlyCommunication

Neat!

ACM's Transition to Full Open Access: A New Era for Computing Research

"In a significant step to broadening access to computing research, ACM has transitioned to a fully Open Access (OA) publishing model, as of January 1, 2026."

https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

#ACM #AssociationForComputingMachinery #OpenAccess #Open_Access #Research #ComputingResearch