ACM Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
Through September 15 to October 15, ACM is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Iberoamerican Heritage Month) by honoring Latin and Hispanic individuals who have made considerable contributions to the ACM community. During this time, ACM will be highlighting several prominent Latin and Hispanic computing professionals for their accomplishments that have left a tremendous impact on the computing field. Follow ACM social media (X, Instagram, Facebook) and #HispanicHeritageMonth to keep track of our posts related to this campaign.
Heloisa Candello is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and research scientist at the IBM Reesearch Laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her expertise is in user research, user experience design, and creating engaging and ethical AI interactive systems. Other interests of hers include applying design methods to learn how people use multimedia features in their phones in cultural setting.
Marcelo Arenas is a Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. He is also an ACM Distinguished Member. His research interests are data management, the semantic web, database systems, and applications of logic in computer science.
Trilce Estrada is an Associate Professor and Director of the Data Science Laboratory at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests are the intersection of machine learning, high performance computing, big data and their applications to interdisciplinary problems. Her goal is to solve computionally- and data-intensive problems in the science, health, and education fields.
Gonzalo Navarro is an ACM Fellow and a Professor at the University of Chile. He has made significant contributions in areas of compressed data structure, text searches, graph/metric databases, and information retrieval. Other interests of his include design and analysis of algorithms.
Awareness Months Archive
Embracing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences enrich the ACM community and strengthen ACM's ability to support the global computing community. Awareness months are a time dedicated to reflection, education, and engagement to understand and embrace the diverse membership within the ACM community. Our archive display the past and current celebrations ACM have created to foster an inclusive and equitable environment for all within the computing community.
How Diverse Is Your Team?
ACM's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council is an essential resource for SIGs, conferences, boards, and councils looking for best practices to improve diversity in their organization and develop programs with a broader reach in the computing community. Our guide provides examples of both inherent and acquired characteristics, which should be taken into consideration when looking at ways to improve the diversity of your team.
Words Matter
As part of ACM’s efforts to combat exclusion in the computing profession, ACM's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council has launched an effort to replace offensive or exclusionary terminology in the computing field. They have developed a list of computing terms to be avoided in professional writing and presentations and offer alternative language. The Council plans to expand this list in the future and invites the community to submit suggestions for consideration.
