Information Technology: Professional Organizations

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) - Interdisciplinary organization of 4,000 members from such fields as computer science, linguistics, management, librarianship, engineering, law, medicine, chemistry, and education. Focuses on techniques and technologies in the fields of library and information science, communications, networking and computer science.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - ACM is the world's oldest and largest educational and scientific computing society.

Association for Women in Computing - Nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the advancement of women in the technology fields. Events calendar, articles on a variety of topics.

Association of Information Technology Professionals - Provides quality IT related education, information on relevant IT issues and forums for networking.

Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) - Trade association representing the U.S. IT industry, site offers information about the industry, its issues, association programs, publications, meetings, seminars and links to other sites.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Technical professional association which serves as a leading authority in computer engineering, telecommunications, electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, biomedical technology, and related areas. Also see IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society.

Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) - Educational organization fostering advancement in the theory, design, manufacture, and use of sensors, instruments, computers, and systems for measurement and control in a wide variety of applications.

International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS)

International Information Management Association (IIMA)

International Project Management Association - An organization of national project management associations.

Internet Society (ISOC) - A professional membership society providing leadership on the future of the Internet. The organizational home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

Project Management Institute (PMI) - An organization focusing on the needs of project management professionals worldwide.

Scholarly Societies - Computer Science - A directory of scholarly societies in computer science, developed and maintained by the Scholarly Societies Project of the University of Waterloo.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - SIAM members are applied and computational mathematicians, computer scientists, numerical analysts, engineers, statisticians, and mathematics educators working in industrial and service organizations, universities, and government agencies and labs all over the world.