Question

Kode Vicious and Poul-Henning Kamp regularly write columns for an online magazine published by this organization named “[this organization] Queue”. A group whose name parodies that of this organization, replacing its last word with “Heresy”, runs a satirical computing conference held every April Fool’s Day. Until 2017, this organization ran (-5[1])and gave its name to a large programming contest for teams of three collegiate students sharing a single computer, called the (15[1])(*) ICPC. This organization’s “Special Interest Groups” include SIGCOMM and SIGGRAPH. Most major computer science journals (10[1])and conferences (10[1])are either run by the IEEE (“I triple E”) or by this organization. For 10 points, the Turing Award is given by what academic society, whose name references its original focus of “Computing Machinery”? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: ACM [or Association for Computing Machinery]
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= Average correct buzz position
Conv. %Power %Average Buzz
100%25%90.25

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