History
This page contains some information about the history of the Journal of the ACM.
First issue
The very first issue of JACM appeared in January 1954.
50th anniversary
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the journal, some articles retracing the history of JACM, written by some of its former editor-in-chiefs, have appeared in Volume 50, Issue 5.
Editors-in-Chief
The following people served as editors-in-chief of JACM over the years:
- 1954–1958
- Franz L. Alt
- 1959–1962
- Mario L. Juncosa
- 1963–1965
- Richard Hammer
- 1966–1968
- Calvin C. Gotlieb
- 1969–1972
- Gerard Salton
- 1973–1975
- Raymond E. Miller
- 1976–1979
- Edward G. Coffman, Jr.
- 1979–1982
- Michael R. Garey
- 1983–1986
- Michael J. Fischer
- 1986–1990
- Daniel J. Rosenkrantz
- 1991–1997
- Tom Leighton
- 1997–2003
- Joseph Y. Halpern
- 2003–2009
- Prabhakar Raghavan
- 2009–
- Victor Vianu
