I've been invited to an organizational meeting for an ACM chapter at my college later this week. I took a look through the brochure and got the impression it seems to be targeted more towards students looking to go on in graduate studies.<p>Is this the case? In other words, what are the benefits of being an ACM member?
I was a member of the ACM for a couple years in my undergrad. All I ever really got out of it was a subscription to the (fairly good) magazine "Communications of the ACM".
I like the ACM club at my school. Its the best collection of programmers at my school so Its the best chance I get to hang out with coders and similarly minded people. They also had a great hackathon a month or so ago where we got to meet some awesome people and get sponsored by top level companies.
The main advantage was access to the ACM digital library where a large number of computer science related papers are found. I don't know if this is still included in the student account or is extra.