Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the February edition of ACM MemberNet. Queue, ACM's practitioner-oriented magazine, has launched. We interview three of the editorial board "movers and shakers" who drive this dynamic new publication. Also in the practitioner vein, we introduce DA TechNews, a bimonthly news digest for design automation professionals. We sound out ACM President Maria Klawe on the potential of wireless and peer-to-peer technologies. USACM sounds off on TIA. The Journal of the ACM celebrates its 50th birthday. PDC courses and the new-member drive continue to generate positive responses. 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Queue's Appeal Is in Asking the Right Questions" "PDC Course Evaluations Positive; Certification Information, Updated C, C++ Courses Coming Soon" "New Design Automation News Service Debuts" "More PD Centre Courses Scheduled for ACM Student Members" "USACM Questions Pentagon's TIA Surveillance Plan" "Intel Funding Raises ACM's Turing Award Prize to $100,000" "Member-Get-a-Member Drive Attracts New Members" "Spam Filtering Newest Enhancement to ACM Email Forwarding Service" "K-12 Task Force Develops Java Training (JETT) Workshops, Curriculum Guidelines" "Portal Profile: For Venezuelan Student, Gestures Yield Design Gems" "Portal Pearl 3.0: Guide Update" "ACM President Sees Potential in Peer-to-Peer Wireless Communications" "ACM to Launch New Publications on Entertainment, Applied Perception, and Architecture" "ACM Issues New Copyright Policy" "Journal of the ACM Celebrates 50th Anniversary" "In Memoriam: Bob Rau, ACM Fellow and Award Recipient" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Queue's Appeal Is in Asking the Right Questions" Queue, ACM's new magazine for practitioners, defines itself by what it is not. It is not a problem-solving publication that promotes any one product or methodology over another. Rather, its mission is to focus on challenges... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/queue_01-03.html "PDC Course Evaluations Positive; Certification Information, Updated C, C++ Courses Coming Soon" As part of ACM's continuing effort to offer courses through the Professional Development Centre (PDC) that are consistent with the high level of quality members would expect, ACM asked members to contribute to the process by evaluating courses they have completed.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pdc_01-03.html "New Design Automation News Service Debuts" Most ACM members are familiar with TechNews, ACM's online news digest appearing three times a week, a very popular service with our members. Now there's DA TechNews, a news service especially for design automation professionals.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/datechnews_01-03.html "More PD Centre Courses Scheduled for ACM Student Members" ACM Student Members will soon be able to access nearly 200 online technology training courses for no charge from ACM's Professional Development Centre.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/student_pdc_01-03.html "USACM Questions Pentagon's TIA Surveillance Plan" Over the past several months, the computing community has grown increasingly concerned with an effort by the US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to promote a project that develops new tools for advanced intelligence gathering...." http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/usacm_01-03.html "Intel Funding Raises ACM's Turing Award Prize to $100,000" In December ACM signed an agreement with Intel Corporation to help raise the visibility of the A. M. Turing Award. Widely known as the Nobel Prize of computing, the Turing Award recognizes individuals.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/intel_01-03.html "Member-Get-a-Member Drive Attracts New Members" ACM's referral program is successfully recruiting new members while rewarding current members with valuable gifts and prizes.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/member_gm_01-03.html "Spam Filtering Newest Enhancement to ACM Email Forwarding Service " In response to many ACM member requests for spam filtering for their ACM email forwarding addresses, ACM has activated a Spam Filtering Service... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/spam_01-03.html "K-12 Task Force Develops Java Training (JETT) Workshops, Curriculum Guidelines" ACM has received a number of inquiries from universities interested in setting up Java Engagement for Teacher Training (JETT) workshops.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/jett_01-03.html "Portal Profile: For Venezuelan Student, Gestures Yield Design Gems" Wendi Urribarri, a 20-year-old Venezuelan student studying computer engineering at the Simon Bolivar University, is interested in the burgeoning field of User Interfaces.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/portal_profile_01-03.html "Portal Pearl 3.0: Guide Update" The collection of bibliographic entries of books, journal articles, proceedings papers, technical reports, and doctoral dissertations that forms ACM's Online Guide to Computing Literature continues to grow.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/pearls_01-03.html "ACM President Sees Potential in Peer-to-Peer Wireless Communications" At a recent meeting of ACM's public policy committee (USACM) in Washington, DC, nearly all 24 attendees propped up their laptop computers and plugged them into power strips.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/p2p_01-03.html "ACM to Launch New Publications on Entertainment, Applied Perception, and Architecture" Boasting an editorial board of 50 industry and academic leaders in media, communications, special effects, and R&D, Computers in Entertainment will cover theoretical and practical computer applications in the field of entertainment... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/transactions_01-03.html "ACM Issues New Copyright Policy" ACM is pleased to announce the release of Version 4 of its Copyright Policy. This landmark document has been used as a model by many other associations and publishers, because of the scope of issues it addresses regarding copyright in the electronic world... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/copyright_01-03.html "Journal of the ACM Celebrates 50th Anniversary" The Journal of the ACM (JACM), ACM's first refereed journal and one of the oldest continuously published computer science journals in the world, celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special issue in January.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/jacm_01-03.html "In Memoriam: Bob Rau, ACM Fellow and Award Recipient" B. Ramakrishna (Bob) Rau, the director of the Compiler and Architecture Research (CAR) program at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and a pioneer in very long instruction word computing, died on December 10... http://www.acm.org/membernet/stories/rau_01-03.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.