As both IEEE or ACM membership is quite expensive I am in a conundrum which one to choose ? Which provide much value in the long run? For your information I am doing Masters in computer science. Which membership provide me great value in the long run?
Association for Computing Machinery ! For computer science is perfect.
I would go for IEEE as a student, you will most probably attend many IEEE conferences.
I have 2 yeas of IEEE membership. I suggest IEEE for many reasons, the cost is not high $27 per year, discounts in conferences, societies, group works.
If you have doubts, you can write me one private message.
As a professional association in the area of Computing, the ACM is naturally comparable to the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS - the largest of the IEEE's numerous Societies), rather than the IEEE itself.
One can join the IEEE-CS without becoming an IEEE member or, preferably, and for a greater fee, be a member of both IEEE-CS and IEEE. And, of course, there are many computing practitioners, educators, and researchers, who are members of IEEE but not IEEE-CS, or do quite well without joining any one of these professional associations.
I am a member of IEEE-CS since 1999, an ACM member since 2000, and IEEE member since 2009.
My motivation for joining the IEEE-CS and ACM was that mentioned by @Stefan Gruner - an unlimited access to full texts of periodicals and conference proceedings in the digital libraries of these associations (the IEEE-CS has its own digital library, the CSDL, the content of which is also accessible in the IEEE's Xplore).
I have to notice that an individual professional membership (unlike expensive institutional subscriptions, and except a rather inexpensive IEEE-and-IEEE-CS Student Membership) does not include the corresponding digital library subscription. So in addition to ACM and IEEE-CS membership fees, I am paying for two digital library subscriptions - ACM DL and CSDL. The later one provides an access to only those of IEEE publications which are sponsored by IEEE-CS, and for an IEEE-CS member a price is relatively moderate (unlike the cost of equivalent access to the IEEE's Xplore digital library).
Aside from publications and conferences, a membership in each of the discussed professional associations provides a variety of other benefits. Just a few examples are significant discounts on books, training courses, and certifications; large collections of free-for-a-member electronic books, courses, webinars; free email aliases (@acm.org, @computer.org, @ieee.org), etc.
The details regarding membership and subscription options of IEEE-CS, IEEE , and ACM can be accessed here:
https://www.computer.org/web/membership/join
https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/index.html?N=0
https://www.acm.org/membership/join
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Biological Science
- Kinesiology
- Running