Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the December edition of ACM MemberNet. This last MemberNet of the year sees a positive response to the courses offered in our Professional Development Centre; a new incentive program offering perks to ACM members who get new members to join; and the OOPSLA conference exploring new frontiers in programming, as well as hosting the Student Research Competition for the first time. Also in this issue, we introduce a new journal (ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, or TECS). The theme of the debut issue is "memory systems." 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 Course Offerings Get Positive Response" "Programming Luminaries Address Next Generation Computing at OOPSLA, Premier Object-Oriented Forum" "Microsoft Funding Expands Opportunities for Student Research Competition" "USACM Backs Efforts to Restore Balance to Copyright Law" "Former ACM Pres Voices Concerns on Pentagon's New System" "Sharing Value of ACM Membership Has Its Rewards" "Staying Ahead of the Curve: Member Benefits Accessible from Your Desktop" "Jim Horning Puts ACM Awards in the Limelight" "ACM K-12 Task Force JETT Project Tackles Java Teacher Training Issues" "Portal Pearl 2.0: Table-of-Contents Alerts" "Portal Profile: Paul Bogen Is True to His School" "Portal Activity Update and Top Reads" "Debut Issue of ACM Queue, New Practitioner Magazine, to Focus on Web Services" "New ACM Transactions Explores Embedded Computers" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Professional Development Centre Course Offerings Get Positive Response" In the last issue of MemberNet we introduced the Professional Development Centre, or PDC, which offers ACM members a bevy of no-fee and discounted online technical courses through ACM's partnership with Sun Educational Services. Well, the reviews are in, and it's a hit! http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pdc_11-02.html "Programming Luminaries Address Next Generation Computing at OOPSLA, Premier Object-Oriented Forum" Object technologists from around the world came to listen, learn and exchange ideas at the 17th Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, or OOPSLA 2002.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/oopsla_11-02.html "Microsoft Funding Expands Opportunities for Student Research Competition" Andy King of the University of Kent at Canterbury, England captured first place in the ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition at the OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications) 2002 Conference.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/src_11-02.html "USACM Backs Efforts to Restore Balance to Copyright Law" Since its enactment in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has hindered the computing community's freedom to engage in research and exchange ideas fundamental to innovation.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm_11-02.html "Former ACM Pres Voices Concerns on Pentagon's New System" Former ACM president Barbara Simons told The New York Times recently that "a lot of my colleagues are uncomfortable" about the Pentagon's new computer system, known as Total Information Awareness (TIA).... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/simons_11-02.html "Sharing Value of ACM Membership Has Its Rewards" ACM has a new referral program that gives back something to members for helping to recruit new members.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/rewards_11-02.html "Staying Ahead of the Curve: Member Benefits Accessible from Your Desktop" Among the many benefits of ACM membership are a host of electronic services accessible from your desktop. These benefits give members an edge by helping them stay ahead of the curve in computing technology... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/lillian_11-02.html "Jim Horning Puts ACM Awards in the Limelight" James Jay Horning seems to have done it all: he wrote his first computer program in 1959, and joined ACM as a student in 1965. He has served on the Committee on Computers and Public Policy since 1985.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/horning_11-02.html "ACM K-12 Task Force JETT Project Tackles Java Teacher Training Issues" The ACM K-12 Task Force recently addressed a new wrinkle that's been introduced in computer science education: the Advanced Placement (AP) exam in computer science in the coming school year will be written in the Java programming language, requiring teachers to develop immediate expertise... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/jett_11-02.html "Portal Pearl 2.0: Table-of-Contents Alerts" The table-of-contents alert service, (or TOC alert service, as it is also known) is a great feature of the ACM Digital Library, the online repository of work published by ACM since its inception.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pearls_11-02.html "Portal Profile: Paul Bogen Is True to His School" Not many people would think of author affiliations as the common thread for putting together a binder. But Paul Logasa Bogen II, a student at Texas A&M University, has good reason: he wants to know what his professors (and others affiliated with the school) are up to... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_profile_11-02.html "Portal Activity Update and Top Reads" http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_usage_11-02.html "Debut Issue of ACM Queue, New Practitioner Magazine, to Focus on Web Services" For practicing professionals who want to stay current with the latest computing trends, Web Services may seem like a familiar drumbeat. There's hardly a trade magazine or journal that hasn't addressed every facet of this topic. So what compelled the editors of ACM Queue to focus its premier issue on Web Services? http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/queue_11-02.html "New ACM Transactions Explores Embedded Computers" Embedded computers, which now drive everything from toys and cars to household appliances and telephones, are the subject of ACM's newest quarterly Transactions title, Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/tecs_11-02.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If your attempt to sign off is unsuccessful, it may be because you were subscribed to MN-SUBSCRIBERS with an email address other than the one from where your request is originating. Please write to membernet@acm.org and we will find the email address under which you are subscribed, and remove it from the list. To submit feedback about ACM MemberNet: mn-editor@acm.org. Technical problems: mn-request@acm.org.