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<div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"><span class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=SIGACT&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGACT">SIGACT</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) special interest group</div> <p><b>ACM SIGACT</b> or <b>SIGACT</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a> <a href="/wiki/Special_Interest_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Interest Group">Special Interest Group</a> on Algorithms and Computation Theory, whose purpose is support of research in <a 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It was founded in 1968 by <a href="/wiki/Patrick_C._Fischer" title="Patrick C. Fischer">Patrick C. Fischer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ACM_SIGACT&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SIGACT publishes a quarterly print newsletter, <i><b>SIGACT News</b></i>. Its online version, <i>SIGACT News Online</i>, is available since 1996 for SIGACT members, with unrestricted access to some features. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Conferences">Conferences</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ACM_SIGACT&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Conferences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SIGACT sponsors or has sponsored several annual conferences. </p> <ul><li>COLT: Conference on Learning Theory, until 1999<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PODC: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Distributed_Computing" title="Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing">Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing</a> (jointly sponsored by SIGOPS)</li> <li>PODS: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Database_Systems" title="Symposium on Principles of Database Systems">Symposium on Principles of Database Systems</a> (jointly sponsored by <a href="/wiki/SIGAI" title="SIGAI">SIGAI</a> and <a href="/wiki/SIGACT" class="mw-redirect" title="SIGACT">SIGACT</a>)</li> <li>POPL: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Principles_of_Programming_Languages" title="Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages">Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages</a></li> <li>SOCG: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Computational_Geometry" title="Symposium on Computational Geometry">Symposium on Computational Geometry</a> (jointly sponsored by <a href="/wiki/SIGGRAPH" title="SIGGRAPH">SIGGRAPH</a>), until 2014<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>SODA: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (jointly sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics" title="Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics</a>). Two annual workshops held in conjunction with SODA also have the same joint sponsorship: <ul><li>ALENEX: Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments</li> <li>ANALCO: Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics</li></ul></li> <li>SPAA: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_Parallelism_in_Algorithms_and_Architectures" title="Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures">Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures</a></li> <li>STOC: ACM <a href="/wiki/Symposium_on_the_Theory_of_Computing" class="mw-redirect" title="Symposium on the Theory of Computing">Symposium on the Theory of Computing</a></li></ul> <p>COLT, PODC, PODS, POPL, SODA, and STOC are all listed as highly cited venues by both citeseerx<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and libra.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_prizes">Awards and prizes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=ACM_SIGACT&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and prizes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6del_Prize" title="Gödel Prize">Gödel Prize</a>, for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science (sponsored jointly with <a href="/wiki/EATCS" class="mw-redirect" title="EATCS">EATCS</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_E._Knuth_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald E. Knuth Prize">Donald E. Knuth Prize</a>, for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science (sponsored jointly with <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Computer_Society" title="IEEE Computer Society">IEEE Computer Society</a>'s Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize">Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize</a> in distributed computing (sponsored jointly with SIGOPS, <a href="/wiki/EATCS" class="mw-redirect" title="EATCS">EATCS</a>, and companies)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Kanellakis_Theory_and_Practice_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award">Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award</a>, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing (<a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">ACM</a> Award co-sponsored by SIGACT)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_L._Lawler_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene L. Lawler Award">Eugene L. 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