Dear ACM Member, Welcome to the March edition of ACM MemberNet. ACM announces the winners of the Turing and other awards honoring achievements in computing. The Job Migration Task Force continues its study of the effects of global outsourcing. USACM addresses file sharing and voter's rights. Conferences on Freedom and Privacy, HCI, and Supercomputing are previewed. And ACM pops up in a question on "JEOPARDY!". 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Internet Pioneers Cerf and Kahn to Receive ACM Turing Award" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=1 "Princeton Professor Wins Grace Hopper Award for Internet Routing" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=2 "Coffman Receives Distinguished Service Award for Work in Scheduling, Queueing Theory" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=3 "Snodgrass Honored for Contributions to Digital Library and Data Management Group" (Outstanding Contribution Award) http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=4 "Doctoral Dissertation Award Honors Cryptography Research" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=5 "ACM Honors Inventors of Landmark Software Concept" (Software System Award) http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=6 "ACM Honors Creators of AdaBoost Algorithm for Improving Accuracy in Machine Learning" (Kanellakis Award) http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=7 "ACM Honors Pioneer of Object Technology with Newell Award" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=8 "ACM Task Force Sharpens Focus on IT Globalization" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=10 "Protecting Innovation, Privacy Tops ACM Policy Agenda" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=11 "CFP Conference Confronts Surveillance Societies" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=12 "CHI 2005 to Focus on Relationships between Technology, Safety, and Community" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=13 "Student Research Competition Encores at SIGCSE" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=14 "SIGCSE Recognizes Andrew McGettrick for Lifetime Service" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=15 "SIGGRAPH Chapters Leader Seeks to Maximize Global Reach" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=16 "SIGCHI President Sees Burgeoning Interest in Asia for HCI" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=17 "ACM-W Student Finds Hope for Women in CS at SIGCSE" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=18 "CS&IT Symposium Helps Teachers Prepare Students for Future" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=19 "Database Administrator Uses PD Centre Course to Brush Up on Oracle 9i" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=20 "Remembering Jan Wilson, ACM Volunteer Active in Professional Certification" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=21 "CareerNews Is Now Live!" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=1 "ACM Member Watts Humphrey Receives National Medal of Technology" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=2 "Welcome New ACM Chapters" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=3 "Supercomputing Conference to Offer Desktop Access, Analytics Challenge" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=4 "Tapia Diversity Conference Submission Deadline Extended" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=5 "ACM-W Donations Link" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=6 "Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing Offers Networking, Mentoring" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=7 "ACM a Question on 'JEOPARDY!'" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=8 "Member-Get-A-Member Recruitment Drive Extends Deadline" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=9 "Special Transition Rate for Graduating Students" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?announcement=10 "Publications Roundup" http://www.acm.org/membernet/s.cfm?story=22 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. If you would like never to receive any more emails from ACM, please log in with your ACM Web Account at https://campus.acm.org/public/personalinfo/getpersonal.cfm to indicate your preference, or send email to MN-SUBSCRIBERS-request@acm.org with the words "Exclude from future ACM mailings" in the subject line. -----------------------------