LibGuides: Computer Information Systems: Associations

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee (Jun. 8, 1955 - ), OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, RDI, is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was award the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2013. In 2017, he received the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale" (image source: wikipedia.org).

Associations & Directories

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Founded in 1947, the ACM is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. Its Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) is dedicated to development of the information security profession.
ASIS International
An international organization of global security practitioners. ASIS was founded in 1955. Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington, D.C.
Center for Internet Security
The CIS is, according to their website, "...driven by our mission to develop, validate, and promote timely best practice solutions that help people, businesses, and governments protect themselves against pervasive cyber threats."
Cloud Security Alliance
CSA brings together industry practitioners, associations, governments, and corporate and individual members to define and promulgate best practices, to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.
Cyber Threat Alliance
The CTA is a group of cybersecurity professionals who have come together to share intelligence on threat actors and their tactics, their motivations, and the attacks they attempt.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity

Analytical Engine

The analytical engine was a mechanical, general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage—an English mathematician and computer pioneer. Babbage described it in 1837, as a successor to his difference engine. Image shows part of the calculating machine with a printing mechanism of the analytical engine (image source: wikipedia.org).