ACM History Committee

The ACM History Committee has a number of projects and initiatives including the following with status as of December 2025. Please visit the linked pages for more status on these projects.

  • Turing Oral History Project: Oral history interviews are complete for most available interviewees; partnership with the Computer History Museum has helped get a great many others documented.
  • Turing Award website: The A. M. Turing website is up-to-date. We now have 175 video clips covering 39 awardees on the Clips YouTube channel. Between them they have received more than 300,000 views.
  • ACM Key Award Winners: Over 300 oral histories with ACM award winners have been completed.
  • Fellowship program: Five History and Archiving Fellowships were awarded in 2025 and with the continued level of quality proposals we decided to make five awards per year the regular number. 
  • India Industry Leaders Video Project: We have completed a pilot program for collecting oral histories with key individuals in India. 
  • SIG Heritage: The committee is developing resources and support to assist SIGs and Committees as they develop their individual organization’s history and our premier edition of a new publication, Heritage Insights, is nearly ready for publication.
  • Curriculum. Our subcommittee works to further the place of history of computing within computing education.