About Us
acmASCIS Student Chapter and the ACM
What is ACM?
ACM “Association for Computing Machinery”, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, it delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.
ACM provides the computing field’s premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources.
ACM Organization was established in 1947, with the establishment of the first computer program to digitally storing; and has a lot of branches all over the world.
What is acmASCIS?
It is Ain Shams University’s student chapter supported by ACM organization. It started on the 15th of September2004 and was given the name ASCIS. ASCIS stands for Ain Shams Computer and Information Science. acmASCIS is a nonprofit organization managed by a group of FCIS students from different academic years.
Our main goal is spreading knowledge, as we are looking forward to a true revival for our community made by young computer scientists. acmASCIS organizes a lot of events in order to achieve that goal (i.e. weekly trainings, conferences, contests, technical/non technical sessions, online weekly challenges, weekly scientific posts … ).
Our Mission is:
Spreading Knowledge
Our Objectives are:
- Reaching the ACM World Finals.
- Become a wide channel for sharing knowledge.
- Developing and improving Students’ problem solving and programming skills.
- Helping students learn how to love science and enjoy learning.
Our Vision is:
Revive Inspire Support Enhance CSians community.
The structure of acmASCIS:
The chapter consists of 9 committees; each committee consists of the committee’s head and committee members.
The hierarchy of acmASCIS members is as follows:
- President
- Vice-president
- Committees’ heads
- Committees’ members
- Active members