Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the September edition of ACM MemberNet. An interview with new ACM President David Patterson reveals his agenda for strengthening the organization. ACM has created a task force to address the global trend of outsourcing. Read about this group's plans to examine the relevant issues to provide a more informed context for career decision making. With the formation of the Computer Science Teachers Association, ACM is spearheading an initiative to address the crisis in pre-college computing education in the US. And new Software Engineering curriculum guidelines for undergraduate degree programs have been released. ACM is seeking nominations for the 12 awards it gives each year to top achievers in the computing field. See this issue for details on nominating candidates. Last but not least, MemberNet has a new feature. Click on "Did You Know?" on the main page to find out who our members are, what we're reading,and what technical courses we're taking. 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For the full issue of ACM MemberNet: http://www.acm.org/membernet IN THIS ISSUE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "ACM to Assess Global Impacts of IT Outsourcing" "Patterson Focuses on New Initiatives to Strengthen ACM" "ACM to Address Crisis in Computing Education" "Task Force Engineers Curriculum Guidelines for SE" "Majority of Members Polled Agree with ACM E-voting Policy Statement" "Battle Over P2P Networks Continues" "ACM Seeks Nominations for Awards Honoring Cream of CS" "Alan Kay to Deliver Turing Lecture at Object-Oriented Conference" "SIGGRAPH Returns to Los Angeles; Attendance up 14 Percent over 2003" "Student Research Competition Debuts at SIGGRAPH" "Indonesian SIGGRAPH Chapter Seeks to Advance Technology through Its Culture" "Women Leaders in Computing to Speak at Grace Hopper Conference" "PDC Invites Members Back to School with Courses, Books" "Member Programs Offer Incentives, Materials, Transition Rates for Graduates" "Simon S. Lam Wins 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Award for Networking Advancements" "Douglas Engelbart Presents SIGWEB Award to David Kolb for Hypertext Work" "Annual Gathering of Data Mining Experts Features Terrorism and Privacy Panel" "USACM Launches New Web Site" "Portal Pearl 7.0: Springer Journals Expand Guide's Coverage" "Publications Roundup" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "ACM to Assess Global Impacts of IT Outsourcing" ACM has created a high-level task force to examine global job migration trends resulting from outsourcing and offshoring of IT jobs.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=2 "Patterson Focuses on New Initiatives to Strengthen ACM" Dave Patterson, ACM's new president, is a ROC star. His recent research project, Recovery-Oriented Computing, is motivated by the principle that even the most robust systems occasionally encounter failures... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=3 "ACM to Address Crisis in Computing Education" ACM will launch a new organization to head off the looming crisis in computing education that has resulted in Computer Science courses disappearing from high school curricula.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=4 "Task Force Engineers Curriculum Guidelines for SE" Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering is the latest in a series of reports designed to provide guidance to academic institutions in setting up their curriculum programs.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=5 "Majority of Members Polled Agree with ACM E-voting Policy Statement" Some 95 percent of ACM members voting in an opinion poll support ACM's stance on e-voting.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=1 "Battle Over P2P Networks Continues" Some powerful US senators have introduced legislation that makes creators of peer-to-peer (P2P) software liable if their products are used to facilitate copyright infringement.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=7 "ACM Seeks Nominations for Awards Honoring Cream of CS" Every year, ACM's award committees evaluate the contributions of candidates for 12 awards that span a variety of professional and technological accomplishments.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=2 "Alan Kay to Deliver Turing Lecture at Object-Oriented Conference" Alan Kay, recipient of the 2003 ACM Turing Award for his work in object- oriented programming and personal computing, will deliver the Turing Award Lecture at the OOPSLA conference in October... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=3 "SIGGRAPH Returns to Los Angeles; Attendance up 14 Percent over 2003" With sessions on cutting-edge topics, multimedia venues showcasing dazzling special effects, and a science fiction writer delivering the keynote speech, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 drew 27,825 professionals from nearly 90 countries.. http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=8 "Student Research Competition Debuts at SIGGRAPH" The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) made its debut at SIGGRAPH, one of ACM's premiere flagship conferences.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=1 "Indonesian SIGGRAPH Chapter Seeks to Advance Technology through Its Culture" Although David Normal, Chair of the Bali professional chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, has only lived in Bali since 2001, he is deeply rooted in the culture there.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=9 "Women Leaders in Computing to Speak at Grace Hopper Conference" This year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing features women engaged in some of the most forward-looking careers in technology. The conference, scheduled for October 6-9 in Chicago... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=4 "PDC Invites Members Back to School with Courses, Books" Summer may be time off for many, but it's been a busy season at the ACM Professional Development Centre. This summer ushered in the new Online Books Program in partnership with Books24x7. http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=6 "Member Programs Offer Incentives, Materials, Transition Rates for Graduates" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=5 "Simon S. Lam Wins 2004 ACM SIGCOMM Award for Networking Advancements" SIGCOMM, ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications, has awarded its highest honor to Simon S. Lam for his seminal contributions to computer networking... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=10 "Douglas Engelbart Presents SIGWEB Award to David Kolb for Hypertext Work" ACM's Special Interest Group on the Web and Hypertext (SIGWEB) presented its 2004 Douglas Engelbart Award to David Kolb for his groundbreaking research on hypertext links... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=11 "Annual Gathering of Data Mining Experts Features Terrorism and Privacy Panel" SIGKDD, the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, provided a forum for attendees from academia, industry and government to share innovations in the data mining field... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=12 "USACM Launches New Web Site" USACM has launched a new Web site and technology policy weblog.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=6 "Portal Pearl 7.0: Springer Journals Expand Guide's Coverage" Scientific publisher Springer has contributed bibliographic data from its more than 30 computer science journals to ACM's Guide to Computing... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=13 "Publications Roundup" Communications of the ACM special election issue; Queue features RFID; Computers in Entertainment explores emotion in games; interactions looks at "Funology"; online Computing Reviews adds Hot Topics essays; and new Transactions title on Bioinformatics debuts. http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=14 To submit feedback about ACM MemberNet: mn-editor@acm.org. 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