ACM SIGACT

SIGACT publishes a quarterly print newsletter, SIGACT News. Its online version, SIGACT News Online, is available since 1996 for SIGACT members, with unrestricted access to some features. ==Conferences==

SIGACT sponsors or has sponsored several annual conferences. • COLT: Conference on Learning Theory, until 1999 • PODC: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (jointly sponsored by SIGOPS) • PODS: ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (jointly sponsored by SIGAI and SIGACT) • POPL: ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages • SOCG: ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (jointly sponsored by SIGGRAPH), until 2014 • SODA: ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (jointly sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics). Two annual workshops held in conjunction with SODA also have the same joint sponsorship: • ALENEX: Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments • ANALCO: Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics • SPAA: ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures • STOC: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing COLT, PODC, PODS, POPL, SODA, and STOC are all listed as highly cited venues by both citeseerx and libra. ==Awards and prizes==

• Gödel Prize, for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science (sponsored jointly with EATCS) • Donald E. Knuth Prize, for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science (sponsored jointly with IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on the Mathematical Foundations of Computing) • Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing (sponsored jointly with SIGOPS, EATCS, and companies) • Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, for theoretical accomplishments of significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing (ACM Award co-sponsored by SIGACT) • Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics (ACM Award co-sponsored by SIGACT) • Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award • Best Paper Award for ACM STOC and IEEE FOCS conference papers • ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Award ==References==