ACM Computing Classification System
General and reference
Document types
Cross-computing tools and techniques
Hardware
Printed circuit boards
Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
Integrated circuits
Very large scale integration design
Power and energy
Electronic design automation
Hardware validation
Hardware test
Robustness
Emerging technologies
Computer systems organization
Architectures
Embedded and cyber-physical systems
Real-time systems
Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
Networks
Network architectures
Network protocols
Network components
Network algorithms
Network performance evaluation
Network properties
Network services
Network types
Software and its engineering
Software and its engineering
Software notations and tools
Software creation and management
Software organization and properties
Theory of computation
Models of computation
Formal languages and automata theory
Computational complexity and cryptography
Logic
Design and analysis of algorithms
Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
Theory and algorithms for application domains
Semantics and reasoning
Mathematics of computing
Discrete mathematics
Probability and statistics
Mathematical software
Information theory
Mathematical analysis
Continuous mathematics
Information systems
Data management systems
Information storage systems
Information systems applications
World Wide Web
Information retrieval
Security and privacy
Cryptography
Formal methods and theory of security
Security services
Intrusion/anomaly detection and malware mitigation
Security in hardware
Systems security
Network security
Database and storage security
Software and application security
Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
Human-centered computingFuture
Human–computer interaction
Interaction design
Collaborative and social computing
Ubiquitous and mobile computing
Visualization
Accessibility
Computing methodologies
Symbolic and algebraic manipulation
Parallel computing methodologie
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Modeling and simulation
Computer graphics
Distributed computing methodologies
Concurrent computing methodologies
Applied computing
Electronic commerce
Enterprise computing
Physical sciences and engineering
Life and medical sciences
Law, social and behavioral sciences
Computer forensics
Arts and humanities
Computers in other domains
Operations research
Education
Document management and text processing
Social and professional topics
Professional topics
Computing/technology policy
User characteristics
Proper nouns: people, technologies and companies
Companies
Organizations
People in computing
Technologies