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Use when deciding whether a result belongs at STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) — testing for broad theory-of-computation significance versus routing to FOCS, SODA, CCC, ITCS, COLT, CRYPTO, PODC, SoCG, EC, or a journal like JACM/SICOMP when the fit is specialized, conceptual, or empirical.

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# STOC Topic Selection

STOC is ACM SIGACT's flagship for the theory of computation: algorithms and
data structures, computational complexity, cryptography, combinatorial and
continuous optimization, learning theory, quantum computing, algorithmic game
theory, coding theory, and the theory sides of adjacent fields (scope sentence
paraphrased from the STOC 2026 CFP, checked 2026-07-08; re-read the live topics
list before arguing fit). The question this skill answers is not "is this
theory?" but "is this *flagship-general* theory?" — because the venue's
distinguishing filter is breadth of interest across a cross-area committee.

## The breadth test

Ask three questions; STOC-shaped results pass at least two convincingly:
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