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A Message to the Computing Community About ACM's Transition to Full Open Access
ACM is pleased to share an important milestone for the computing field. As of January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library have been made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable. This transition is the result of extensive dialogue with authors, SIG leaders, editorial boards, libraries, and research institutions worldwide. ACM is grateful for the community’s consistent advocacy for openness and its commitment to ensuring that computing knowledge is shared widely.
ACM Transactions on Graphics Welcomes Eitan Grinspun as Editor-in-Chief
January 7, 2026
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) welcomes Eitan Grinspun as its new Editor-in-Chief. The appointment is from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. Grinspun is Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Toronto.
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Welcomes Giulio Jacucci as co-EiC
November 3, 2025
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS) welcomes Giulio Jacucci (University of Helsinki) as new co-Editor-in-Chief joining Shlomo Berkovsky for a three-year term from November 15, 2025 to November 14, 2028.
XRDS Welcomes New Editor-in-Chief
October 21, 2025
XRDS Crossroads: The ACM Magazine for Students welcomes Julia Gersey as the new Editor-in-Chief. Gersey is second-year PhD student at The University of Michigan. The appointment is from November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2028.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems Names Alastair Donaldson as EiC
August 5, 2025
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) has named Alastair Donaldson as Editor-in-Chief for a three-year term starting September 1, 2025 and ending August 31, 2028. Donaldson is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.
ACM Formal Aspects of Computing Welcomes New Co-Editors-in-Chief
June 23, 2025
ACM Formal Aspects of Computing (FAC) welcomes Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway) and Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy) as its new Co-Editors-in-Chief for the term of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028.
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies Welcomes New Co-Editors-in-Chief
October 1, 2025
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS) welcomes new Co-Editors-in-Chief Waylon Brunette (Augusta University), Sunandan Chakraborty (Indiana University), and Melissa Densmore (University of Cape Town) for the term of October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2028.
ACM AI Letters Welcomes New Co-Editors-in-Chief
May 27, 2025
ACM's new journal, ACM AI Letters (AILET)—which aims to become the premier rapid-publication venue for impactful, concise, and timely communications in AI—welcomes their inaugural Co-Editors-in-Chief. They are Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA; Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland; and Richa Singh, IIT Jodhpur, India. Their term is from June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028. For more information on AILET, contact: [email protected].
ACM TAISAP Welcomes New Co-Editors-in-Chief
April 2, 2025
ACM's new journal, ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (TAISAP)—which aims to develop methods for assessing the security of AI models, AI-enabled systems, and broader AI environments—welcomes their inaugural Co-Editors-in-Chief. They are Murat Kantarcioglu (Virginia Tech), Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sagar Samtani (Indiana University). Their term is from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028.
Cyber Insurance, Software Diversity, and AI Coders
Cyber insurance has been seen as a crucial tool in cybersecurity. However, cyber insurance has not grown as expected, and may now be at a turning point. The culprits are two characteristics of cyber risks: first, the difficulty to quantify rapidly evolving cyber risks based on historical data—needed for premiums to match actual risk—and second, the potential for incidents to spread between those insured, known as accumulation risk. In "Cyber Insurance, Software Diversity, and AI Coders" in February's Communications of the ACM, Carlos Barreto and Ulrik Franke explain how new automation possibilities offered by AI may change intrinsic properties of cyber risks.
Against Imaginary Friends: Why Digital Companions Are No Solution to Social Isolation
Relationships with "digital humans" might help people feel less lonely. But will this technology increase social isolation? In "Against Imaginary Friends: Why Digital Companions Are No Solution to Social Isolation" in the February issue of Communications of the ACM, Robert Sparrow and James Brown explore the criticisms that have been made of social robots as digital companions and identify new dangers associated with the use of digital companions. They have deliberately limited the scope of the discussion to the use of digital companions to address loneliness and social isolation.
Call for Papers: CACM Practice Section
Communications of the ACM has long had a strong academic and research focus, but it also regularly publishes articles of interest to practitioners. CACM is promoting its new Practice section to be co-equal with its long-standing Research section. The new Practice section will accept submissions and publish articles of lasting interest that enhance practitioners’ understanding of computing and enhance their job performance. Visit the CACM Practice call page for more information, and pass the word onto your friends and colleagues who may be interested in contributing.
New ACM Journals
ACM constantly adds new journals to its portfolio, each focused on a different topic and interest, to ensure that its publications program constitutes a vast and comprehensive archive of computing innovation. Here are the latest specialized journals which you can explore, enjoy, and contribute to.
New Approved Journal - ACM AI Letters
ACM has approved a new journal, ACM AI Letters (AILET), envisioned to become the premier rapid-publication venue for impactful, concise, and timely communications in AI. Bridging a crucial gap between traditional conferences and journals, ACM AI Letters will feature short peer-reviewed contributions that accelerate knowledge dissemination across academia and industry. This unique publication prioritizes theoretical breakthroughs, algorithmic innovation, practical real-world applications, and critical societal implications, including ethics, policy, and responsible AI. For more information on AILET, contact: [email protected].
New Approved Journal - ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy
ACM has approved a new journal, ACM Transactions on AI Security and Privacy (TAISAP). The primary scope of TAISAP is to develop methods for assessing the security of AI models, AI-enabled systems, and broader AI environments. In this context, security includes: (1) the security of AI models, including adversarial attacks on AI and technical vulnerabilities of AI, (2) privacy concerns in AI, and (3) the deployment of AI and machine learning in cybersecurity applications, including security operations centers and cyber threat intelligence. Broader socio-technical themes such as AI safety, dependability, and governance are considered out of scope for TAISAP.
ACM Transactions on AI for Science - Open for Submissions
ACM Transactions on AI for Science (TAIS), is now accepting submissions. TAIS speaks to a breadth of methodological researchers in AI/ML and science and engineering researchers. The audience for the journal includes core AI researchers who are more aligned to Computer Science, Applied/Engineering Mathematics, and Statistics, as well as those who are aligned to specific scientific subjects from Physics to Civil Engineering. The journal aims to publish articles that demonstrate scientific challenges can drive new AI (and reciprocally) and that experts in computational methods can have domain-specific mastery and drive new science themselves. Find author guidelines and submit here.
Inaugural Issue of ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning
ACM has announced the publication of the first issue of the ACM Transactions on Probabilistic Machine Learning (TOPML), a new peer-reviewed publication. The new journal focuses on probabilistic methods that learn from data to improve performance on decision-making or prediction tasks under uncertainty. In keeping with ACM’s goal of being a fully Open Access publisher by the end of 2025, TOPML is a Gold Open Access journal and published papers are free to read and share via the ACM Digital Library. Read the ACM news release and visit the journal homepage.
Program Merge: What's Deep Learning Got to Do with It?
If you regularly work with open-source code or produce software for a large organization, you're already familiar with many of the challenges posed by collaborative programming at scale. And the scale of the problem has gotten much worse. This is what led a group of researchers at MSR (Microsoft Research) to take on the task of complicated merges as a grand program-repair challenge—one they believed might be addressed at least in part by machine learning. To understand the thinking that led to this effort and then follow where that led, Erik Meijer and Terry Coatta spoke with three of the leading figures in the MSR research effort, called DeepMerge
The Point is Addressing
ACM Queue’s "Research for Practice" serves up expert-curated guides to the best of computing research, and relates these breakthroughs to the challenges that software engineers face every day. In this installment, Daniel Bittman curates a collection of papers about "anything related to far-out memories." He includes more than 30 years of research, from single-address-space operating systems, to software-based distributed shared memory, to far memory offload, to single-level stores for persistent memory. The featured papers challenge assumptions about isolation, sharing and locality, transparency, and movement of memory and computation. The thread that ties all these selections together in Bittman's analysis is the topic of addressing, or how data references data.
Ubiquity’s Communication Corner Helps Improve Writing and Speaking Skills
Have you always wondered how you can improve your writing and communicate more effectively? Ubiquity, ACM's online magazine of critical analysis and in-depth commentary, offers Communication Corner, a monthy feature by Philip Yaffe, retired Wall Street Journal reporter and Ubiquity editorial board member. Each installment includes an essay on a fundamental aspect of effective writing or speaking; an exercise to help you practice writing on the topic being discussed; and an invitation to submit your exercise for possible critique.
New Title from ACM Books: Multi-LLM Agent Collaborative Intelligence
Multi-LLM Agent Collaborative Intelligence: The Path to Artificial General Intelligence by Edward Y. Chang, states that today’s large language models excel at pattern recall yet falter on long-range planning, self-critique, context loss, and the tendency of maximum-likelihood training to reward popularity over quality. MACI offers a promising route to AGI by orchestrating specialized LLM agents through explicit protocols rather than enlarging a single model. Crucially, MACI also modulates linguistic behavior, tuning each agent’s contentiousness and emotional tone, so the collective explores ideas from contrasting, affect-aware perspectives before converging.
New Title from ACM Books: Biomedical Embedded Systems: From Design to Security
Biomedical systems—such as pacemakers and automated insulin pumps—are Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) that must operate safely and reliably at all times. This book by Nathan Allen, Hammond Pearce, and Partha Roop introduces a systematic design methodology for Medical CPSs (MCPSs) using the synchronous approach, which ensures deterministic and reactive execution—key to safety-critical performance. Through a detailed case study of a pacemaker and a modeled human heart, this book demonstrates how the synchronous approach enables accurate modeling, verification, and automated code generation. This is a clear, practical guide to designing safe and verifiable medical cyber-physical systems.
New Title from ACM Books: Functional Data Structures and Algorithms
Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: A Proof Assistant Approach by Tobias Nipkow et al. is an introduction to data structures and algorithms for functional programming languages, with a focus on proofs. What sets this book apart from existing books on algorithms is that all proofs have been machine-checked by the proof assistant Isabelle with definitions and proofs are available online. This book is aimed at teachers and students but is also a reference work for programmers and researchers who are interested in the verified details of some algorithm or proof.
New Title from ACM Books: Thinking about Programs
Thinking About Programs is based on Gavin Lowe's experience of 30 years of teaching programming at the University of Oxford and is an excellent choice for early programming courses offered by universities worldwide. It is a rigorous and thoughtfully structured textbook designed to equip students with both the theoretical underpinnings and practical skills essential in today’s programming landscape. Combining pedagogical clarity with up-to-date industry relevance, the book guides learners through fundamental programming concepts, algorithmic thinking, and problem-solving strategies while fostering a deep understanding of computational logic.
New Title from ACM Books: Sustainable Interactive Wireless Stickers
Today’s Internet of Things (IoT) devices are bulky, expensive, require battery maintenance, and involve costly installation. In contrast, the interactive stickers introduced in Sustainable Interactive Wireless Stickers: From Materials to Devices to Applications are low maintenance, inexpensive, and easy to deploy. Focusing on power, form factor, and cost as system design parameters, Nivedita Arora describes stickers that have simple circuitry and can sustain themselves while wirelessly communicating and responding to various human Interactions.
New Title from ACM Books: Turning Points in the Analog and Digital World
Turning Points in the Analog and Digital World by Herbert Bruderer, presents “the digital age” as a central theme, covering digital transformation, social media, artificial intelligence, autonomous drones and mobile robots as well as self-driving vehicles. Among many other topics, the author also discusses quantum computers, DNA data storage, 3D printing, and the power and influence of technology giants. It includes more than 500 illustrations from the fields of mathematics, computing, astronomy, surveying, time measurement, and the construction of automatons.
New Authoring Templates for ACM Publications
ACM has transitioned to new authoring templates. The new template consolidates all eight individual ACM journal and proceedings templates. The templates are updated to the latest software versions, have been developed to enable accessibility features, and use a new font set.
ACM Boasts Strong Impact Factors
ACM publications had an impressive showing in the newest Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate Analytics. ACM Computing Surveys continued its impressive ascent, receiving an impact factor of 23.8, up from 16.6 in 2023, and placing it first out of the 143 journals in the Computer Science, Theory & Methods category. Communications of the ACM boasted continued strong performance, with an impact factor of 11.1, placing it first in the Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture category for the second year in a row; third of 131 titles in the Computer Science, Software Engineering category; and sixth of 143 journals in the Computer Science, Theory & Methods category.
ACM Peer Reviewer Training and Certification
ACM's publications program is built on a foundation of high quality peer review. In this course for peer reviewers, you will learn the principles of peer review as well as details of the process and your responsibility within that process.
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Publish in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series
The ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) provides a mechanism to publish the contents of conferences, technical symposia and workshops and thereby increase their visibility among the international computing community. The goal of this program is to enable conferences and workshops to cost effectively produce print proceedings for their attendees, while also providing maximum dissemination of the material through electronic channels, specifically, the ACM Digital Library.
Overleaf Allows Authors to Collaborate
Overleaf is a free, cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool that provides an ACM LaTeX authoring template. Authors can write using Rich Text mode or regular Source mode. The platform automatically compiles the document while an author writes, so the author can see what the finished file will look like in real time. The template allows authors to submit manuscripts easily to ACM from within the Overleaf platform.
Promote Your Work with Kudos
Kudos is a free service that you can use to promote your work more effectively. After your paper has been accepted and uploaded to the ACM Digital Library, you'll receive an invitation from Kudos to create an account and add a plain-language description. The Kudos “Shareable PDF” allows you to generate a PDF to upload to websites, such as your homepage, institutional repository, preprint services, and social media. This PDF contains a link to the full-text version of your article in the ACM DL, adding to download and citation counts.
Proceedings of the ACM Series
Proceedings of the ACM (PACM) is a journal series that launched in 2017. The series was created in recognition of the fact that conference-centric publishing disadvantages the CS community with respect to other scientific disciplines when competing with researchers from other disciplines for top science awards and career progression, and the fact that top ACM conferences have demonstrated high quality and high impact on the field. See PACMs on Programming Languages, Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, and HCI.
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ACM exists to support the needs of the computing community. For over sixty years ACM has developed publications and publication policies to maximize the visibility, access, impact, trusted-source, and reach of the research it publishes for a global community of researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.
