Wither/Whither the ACM

🫧 Open on Bubbles Two editorials in the July issue of the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery ask about the decay and future of the organization itself. Jim Larus, editor-in-chief of the CACM, writes Wither ACM? Publish and Perish? ACM no longer has broad appeal as a professional organization, does not advance many members’ careers, and may not be a valuable affiliation in a more diverse technical world...It is time to recognize that ACM has shifted from functioning as a professional s