The Journal of the ACM (JACM) provides coverage of the most significant work on principles of computer science, broadly construed. The scope of research we cover encompasses contributions of lasting value to any area of computer science. To be accepted, a paper must be judged to be truly outstanding in its field.  JACM is interested  in work in core computer science and at the boundaries, both the boundaries of subdisciplines of computer science and the boundaries between computer science and other fields.

The best indicator of the scope of the journal is provided by the areas covered by its Editorial Board. These areas change from time to time, as the field evolves. The following areas are currently covered by a member of the Editorial Board:

    Algorithms and Data Structures
    Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, and Games
    Artificial Intelligence
    Complexity Theory
    Computational Biology
    Computational Geometry
    Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
    Computer-Aided Verification
    Cryptography and Security
    Cyber-Physical, Embedded, and Real-Time Systems
    Database Systems and Theory
    Decisions, Uncertainty, and Computation
    Distributed Computing
    Economics and Computation
    Graph Algorithms and Geometric Computing
    Logic and Computation
    Logic, Algorithms, and Complexity
    Machine Learning and Computational Learning Theory
    Networking
    Parallel Computing and Architecture
    Programming Languages
    Quantum Computing
    Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
    Scientific Computing and High Performance Computing
    Software Engineering
    Web Algorithms and Data Mining