Thursday, July 4, 2013
Two faculty members from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science have been elected to leadership positions in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Professor
Charles
Clarke
was
elected
Chair
of
the
Special
Interest
Group
on
Information
Retrieval
(SIGIR)
and Professor
Srinivasan Keshav
was
elected
Chair
of
the
Special
Interest
Group
on
Communication
(SIGCOMM).
ACM's
special
interest
groups represent
virtually
every
major
area
of
computing,
and
offer
a
wealth
of
conferences,
publications,
and
activities
on
the
local-to-global
scale,
providing
unlimited
opportunities
for
sharing
technical
expertise
and
first-hand
knowledge
of
the
latest
development
trends.
The
ACM
Special
Interest
Group
on
Information
Retrieval
welcomes
members
working
in
all
aspects
of
information
storage,
retrieval,
and
dissemination,
including
research,
development,
evaluation,
and
education.
The
mission
of
SIGIR
has
expanded
to
cover
a
variety
of
search-related
research
topics
applied
to
a
broad
range
of
unstructured
data
including
text,
images,
video,
audio,
and
recorded
speech.
SIGIR
sponsors
its
own
conference
on
research
and
development
in
information
retrieval
and
co-sponsors
several
other
conferences
and
workshops.
The
ACM
Special
Interest
Group
on
Data
Communication
provides
a
forum
for
computing
professionals
involved
in
the
vital
field
of
data
communication.
SIGCOMM
is
also
a
community
resource
for
those
interested
in
network
research,
network
standards,
network
history,
and
the
educational
aspects
of
networking.
SIGCOMM
and
IEEE
co-sponsor
the ACM/IEEE
Transactions
on
Networking journal.
The
election
of
faculty
members
to
these
groups
speaks
to
the
excellent
work
being
done
by
the
school,
and
to
the
level
of
accomplishment
and
knowledge
of
our
professors
within
their
areas
of
expertise.