Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the November edition of ACM MemberNet. This issue features stories on ACM's new Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer; new outreach agendas for women and girls, aging computer users, and the HCI community; highlights of the Grace Hopper, object-oriented and supercomputing conferences; and much more. As always, we welcome your comments about the content and format of MemberNet. Please email the editor at mn-editor@acm.org. For the full issue of ACM MemberNet: http://www.acm.org/membernet IN THIS ISSUE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "VP Feldman Sees SIGs as Key to Practitioner, International Outreach" "Secretary/Treasurer Hill Seeks to Build New Forms of Electronic Community at ACM" "ACM Joins Partnership to Increase Women's Participation in IT Careers" "Hopper Conference Celebrates Women's Contributions, Explores Opportunities" "New ACM-W Co-Chair Aims to Reach Girls at Crucial Age" "SIGACCESS Helps Aging Boomers Face Workplace Challenges" "ACM Seeking Input on Proposed Curriculum Changes" "ACM'S PD Centre Adds Free Books" "High School CS Teachers' Group to Accept Members in January" "SIGCHI Chapters Chair Seeks to Unify Dispersed Local Groups" "Object Technology Conference Features Turing Award Lecture, Student Research Competition" "SC Conference Connects Tech Communities, Bridges Continents" "Welcome New ACM Chapters" "E-voting Watchdog's Keynote Speech Now Available" "The Big Picture: ACM's 2003-2004 Annual Report" "ACM Turing Winner Kenneth Iverson Leaves Programming Legacy" "Publications Roundup" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "VP Feldman Sees SIGs as Key to Practitioner, International Outreach" It's been a milestone year for Stuart Feldman. In June, he received the ACM Software System Award for his software maintenance tool, Make. In July, he became ACM's new Vice President.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=2 "Secretary/Treasurer Hill Seeks to Build New Forms of Electronic Community at ACM" Laura Hill, ACM's new Secretary/Treasurer, is known for thinking outside the box. Over her varied career she has been a theoretical physicist, an object-oriented programmer, and an applications developer.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=3 "ACM Joins Partnership to Increase Women's Participation in IT Careers" ACM has joined a high-profile network of organizations to support a new national effort to foster equal participation for women and men in information technology careers.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=4 "Hopper Conference Celebrates Women's Contributions, Explores Opportunities" Chicago's Sheraton Hotel pulsed with the energy of more than 850 women and men making history at the tenth anniversary of the renowned Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=1 "New ACM-W Co-Chair Aims to Reach Girls at Crucial Age" For Elaine Weyuker, the new Co-Chair of ACM-W, ACM's Committee on Women in Computing, mentoring girls and women has always been an important facet of her own career.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=5 "SIGACCESS Helps Aging Boomers Face Workplace Challenges" As older workers become increasingly exposed to rapidly changing technology in a competitive workplace, understanding their unique requirements is an area of paramount interest for ACM's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=6 "ACM Seeking Input on Proposed Curriculum Changes" A committee representing major professional and scientific computing societies including ACM is seeking input on guidelines to help the nation's colleges and universities design undergraduate degree programs to address the profound changes buffeting the computing field in the last decade.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=2 "ACM'S PD Centre Adds Free Books" The ACM Professional Development Centre now offers members unlimited, free access to 395 online IT volumes on the latest IT topics.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=1 "High School CS Teachers' Group to Accept Members in January" The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) will begin accepting members through its Web site in January. ACM launched CSTA to address the coming crisis in computing education... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=7 "SIGCHI Chapters Chair Seeks to Unify Dispersed Local Groups" As Local Chapters Chair for SIGCHI, Apala Lahiri Chavan seeks to unite what she sees as the HCI diaspora, connecting these geographically disparate chapters with the parent organization and their own roots.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=9 "Object Technology Conference Features Turing Award Lecture, Student Research Competition" OOPSLA 2004 hosted ACM's prestigious Turing Lecture, delivered by Alan Kay, this year's Turing Award winner.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=8 "SC Conference Connects Tech Communities, Bridges Continents" "Bridging Communities" was the theme of the SC2004 High-Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage Conference, held November 6-12.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=10 "Welcome New ACM Chapters" ACM welcomes new chapters around the world that have been chartered since the beginning of the year.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=5 "E-voting Watchdog's Keynote Speech Now Available" A keynote speech by David Dill, one of the more outspoken and visible critics of e-voting systems, is now available for listening and viewing in the PD Centre.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=4 "The Big Picture: ACM's 2003-2004 Annual Report" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=3 "ACM Turing Winner Kenneth Iverson Leaves Programming Legacy" Computer pioneer Kenneth E. Iverson, who won ACM's prestigious Turing Award in 1979 for his seminal contributions to computer programming languages, died October 19th, in Toronto, Canada, at age 83.... http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=11 "Publications Roundup" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To submit feedback about ACM MemberNet: mn-editor@acm.org. Technical problems: mn-request@acm.org. ----------------------------- To be removed from the MN-SUBSCRIBERS list, please send a message to listserv@listserv.acm.org with the words "Unsubscribe MN-SUBSCRIBERS" (but please don't include the quotes) in the body of the message. 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. 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