re: #73 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
If the ACM has that role, that’s fine, but that seemed to be more prudent to academia and less so to practical engineering.
The ACM would fill that role quite nicely.
True story: when I was in college they asked students to work the ACM conference being held in Detroit in 1979. I actually got to meet and briefly chat with none other than RADM Grace Murray Hopper as I was shuffling between presentations. very few people can say they net the rock stars of their industry…..