The Journal of the ACM is the flagship scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

 (ACM). It is peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 and covers computer science in general, especially theoretical aspects. Its current editor-in-chief is Victor Vianu

Victor Vianu

Victor Vianu is a computer scientist, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego and since 2010 the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM....

, from University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

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The journal has been published since 1954. As write, "computer scientists universally hold the Journal of the ACM (JACM) in high esteem".

External links

• Official website
• DBLP Bibliography (1954 onwards)
• JACM Bibliography at MIT (1954–1998)
• First article in the JACM on the ACM (1954)