As your public policy officer, I have joined the USACM. \u00a0My goals are\u00a0to introduce AI matters into USACM discussions and to relay AI-related ideas and issues from USACM to\u00a0SIGAI members through blog postings.
\nHere is some\u00a0information about USACM:<\/p>\n
Mission The USACM is authorized to take official policy positions. \u00a0These positions reflect the position of the USACM and not necessarily that of ACM. Policy positions of USACM are decided by a majority vote of the USACM Executive Committee.<\/p>\n Committees Working Groups Please find more information about USACM at http:\/\/usacm.acm.org\/ As your public policy officer, I have joined the USACM. \u00a0My goals are\u00a0to introduce AI matters into USACM discussions and to relay AI-related ideas and issues from USACM to\u00a0SIGAI members through blog postings. Here is some\u00a0information about USACM: Mission The U.S. Public Policy Council of ACM (USACM) is chartered as the focal point for ACM’s … Continue reading “USACM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The U.S. Public Policy Council of ACM (USACM) is chartered as the focal point for ACM’s interaction with U.S. government organizations, the computing community, and the U.S. public in all matters of U.S. public policy related to information technology and computing\u00a0\u2014\u00a0except issues in science and math education relevant to computing and computer science, which is the responsibility of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC). The USACM Council superseded the former ACM U.S. Public Policy standing committee.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Currently, USACM has the following seven standing committees listed below (with chairs):
\nUSACM-Accessibility \u00a0Harry Hochheiser (Accessibility & usability)
\nUSACM-DigiGov \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chris Bronk \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Digital governance)
\nUSACM-IP \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Hyland \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Intellectual property)
\nUSACM-Law \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Andy Grosso \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (IT & Law)
\nUSACM-Security \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Alec Yasinsac \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Security)
\nUSACM-Privacy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Brian Dean \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Privacy)
\nUSACM-Voting \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Barbara Simons \u00a0 \u00a0(Voting-related computing issues)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Internet of Things (USACM-IOT)
\nAlgorithmic Accountability (USACM-Algorithms)
\nBig Data (USACM-Data)<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>and the brochure at
\nhttp:\/\/usacm.acm.org\/images\/documents\/USACMBrochure.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"