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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