ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, Opens Branch Office in China; Beijing Office to Serve Growing Needs of Global Computing Community.

AScribe Business & Economics News Service, January, 2008

Byline: Association for Computing Machinery

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has opened a branch office in China in partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing to meet the growing needs of its professional and student members in this active region of the world. The new office further strengthens ACM's longstanding legacy of providing valuable resources that benefit the global computing community. It also offers added convenience for ACM members in China to access ACM's broad array of products and services, and to conduct transactions using local currency.

"China's information technology (IT) profile in the global economy is growing," said John R. White, ACM Chief Executive Officer. "China's...