[Cialug] ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Afan Pasalic afan at afan.net
Wed Feb 4 11:46:04 CST 2009


I got it too, 3-4 days ago. "Computing Machinery" is to "wide" for me. :-)

afan

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Hi, I got a letter in the mail inviting me to join ACM. Apparently
> they have numerous print publications and the professional membership
> is $84 for the first year and $99 for subsequent years. They seem to
> have a large body of information on their website.
>
> I was going to toss it away but I noticed that one of their member
> benefits is a subscription to a subset of the Safari online book club
> (and some other online book sources). You don't get the full deal, but
> you do get several hundred titles. I looked through the titles they
> offered and found numerous ones that I wanted to read.
>
> At $84 that seems like a bargain but I really don't know anything
> about these guys. Can anyone tell me about them?
>
>   


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