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- Programming languages:
- The ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
- The ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
- The Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
- The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
- Logic in computing:
- The Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV)
- The IEEE Conference on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)
- Software engineering:
- The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
- The ACM Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)
- Algorithms and complexity:
- The Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
- The Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
- The Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
- Operating systems:
- The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
- The Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI)
- Computer architecture:
- The International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
- The International Symposium on Micro-Architecture (MICRO)
- The IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA)
- The Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)
- Computer networks:
- The ACM Conference on Computer Communication (SIGCOMM)
- The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
- Computer security:
- The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
- The Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS)
- The Usenix Security Symposium (Usenix Security)
- Databases:
- The ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD)
- The Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS)
- The Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB)
- Machine learning and data mining:
- The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
- Artificial intelligence
- The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
- International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
- Natural language processing
- Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Computer graphics
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Web and information retrieval:
- Symposium on the World Wide Web (WWW)
- The Annual SIGIR conference (SIGIR)
- Measurements:
- The ACM SIGMETRICS conference (SIGMETRICS)
- Human-computer interaction:
- The ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI)
- Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
- Computer vision
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Top-tier CS Conferences