Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the September edition of ACM MemberNet, "Your Key to the World of ACM.... and Beyond." Nearly 200 online technical classes are now available to ACM professional members in ACM's new Professional Development Centre. These courses are being offered at no charge through Sun Educational Services. Several online courses are available to student members as well. Read all about it in this issue! Also in this issue, we look at how the events of 9/11 have informed ACM activities and opinions on security, privacy, intellectual freedom, and other issues in the past year. And we remember four Turing Award winners who passed away this summer. As always, we welcome your comments about the content and format of MemberNet. Please email the editor at mn-editor@acm.org. If you'd like to unsubscribe from this service, please send an email to mn-request@acm.org with the following message: "SIGNOFF MN-SUBSCRIBERS". For the full issue of ACM MemberNet: IN THIS ISSUE: "Professional Development Centre Offers Online Technical Courses to Professional Members at No Charge" "Portal Pearl 1.0: The Incredible Growing Guide" "After 9/11, USACM Strengthens Voice in Cyber Security, Privacy Issues" "A 9/11 Binder: Privacy and Security Prevail" "ACM SIGGRAPH President Aims to Expand Computer Graphics Community" "Alan Berenbaum Is New SIG Board Chair" "Celebrating Computing's Finest: Call for ACM Award Nominations" "Student Research Contest Spreads Its Wings" "Portal Profile: Recommender Systems for a Multitasking Student" "Portal Activity Update and Top Reads" "Four Turing Award Winners Leave Legacy of Lasting Contributions" "Purdue Pioneer Samuel Conte Promoted Computing as a Science, not a Skill" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Professional Development Centre Offers Technical Courses at No Charge" ACM professional members can now keep up with the latest information technology developments through a new member benefit program that offers unlimited access to Web-based technology training courses at no charge.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pdc_09-02.html "Portal Pearl 1.0: The Incredible Growing Guide" This month marks the inaugural issue of Portal Pearls, a regular column designed to help you get the most out of ACM's Portal/Digital Library.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pearls_09-02.html "After 9/11, USACM Strengthens Voice in Cyber Security, Privacy Issues" Since September 11, ACM members and the computing community need to have a stronger voice in cyber security and privacy legislation than ever before. With increased attention to new laws granting law enforcement... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm_09-02.html "A 9/11 Binder: Privacy and Security Prevail" The events of 9/11 affected the ACM community in ways we could not have predicted. Last year, the ACM/SIGSAC-sponsored New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2001) began the day the towers fell.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/911_binder_09-02.html "ACM SIGGRAPH President Aims to Expand Computer Graphics Community" Alain Chesnais, the newly-elected president of ACM SIGGRAPH, presided over a packed house at the SIGGRAPH 2002 conference in San Antonio in July with humor, charm and news about member benefits for the computer graphics community.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/chesnais_09-02.html "Alan Berenbaum Is New SIG Board Chair" In July, Alan Berenbaum, most recently Senior Manager with Agere Systems, a manufacturer of semiconductors, became Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group (SIG) Governing Board Executive Committee.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/berenbaum_09-02.html "Celebrating Computing's Finest: Call for ACM Award Nominations" Do you have a candidate for the prestigious Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, or the Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions, or the Grace Murray Hopper Award for an outstanding young computer professional?... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/award_nominations_09-02.html "Student Research Contest Spreads Its Wings" Financial support from Microsoft Research is helping the Student Research Contest to increase its presence in the computing research world.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/src_09-02.html "Portal Profile: Recommender Systems for a Multitasking Student" Although Stuart Middleton is still a student, he has already had a multifaceted career. When he graduated from Southampton University in England in 1992 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, he became a software engineer for Lloyd's of London.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_profile_09-02.html "Portal Activity Update and Top Reads" http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_usage_09-02.html "Four Turing Award Winners Leave Legacy of Lasting Contributions" The computing world lost four pioneers in June, July, and August: John Cocke, Edsger Dijkstra, Ole-Johan Dahl, and Kirsten Nygaard. All were winners of ACM's prestigious Alan M. Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of computer science...." http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/legacy_09-02.html "Purdue Pioneer Samuel Conte Promoted Computing as a Science, not a Skill" Samuel D. Conte, who helped establish the first computer science degree program in the nation at Purdue University, died on July 1. 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