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ACM MemberNet - November 2004 issue
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
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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"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"
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"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
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THE WORLD'S WIDE WEB
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GENEVA EVOTING PROJECT A SUCCESS
The State of Geneva's recent 7th official internet-based ballot has been
deemed a huge success. Within the framework of a federal referendum, Geneva
gave 8 municipalities totaling 41'000 voters the possibility to vote
online, by postal voting or at the polling station voting. Postal ballot
and eBallot ended on Saturday, November, 27th, followed by polling Stations
opening on Sunday, November, 28th.
Related Articles: Seventh Internet-based Ballot A Success
http://www.ge.ch/evoting/english/communiques_20041128.asp
Report By Geneva University On The Sociological Profile Of Users Of The
eVoting System
http://www.ge.ch/evoting/english/doc/rapports/200409_rapport_carouge_meyrin.pdf
IN CHINA, BLOGS WAITING TO BLOOM
Economic freedoms are expanding in the nation of 1.3 billion people, and
nowhere more powerfully than in Shanghai, an amazing city that seems to
grow a new skyline every year and has become the commercial center of a
vast land.
Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/10238306.htm
OHMYNEWS AND 'WIRED RED DEVILS'
While South Korea's journalists and political leaders have been debating
how to reform Korean media for decades, the hot new OhmyNews website has
paved the way for a new type of democratic journalism with its thousands of
'Net citizens.
Full Story: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/FK25Dg01.html
THE SAUDI-WIDE WEB
A recent report from the OpenNet Initiative sheds light on what the
Internet looks like from inside Saudi Arabia. ONI tested sites blocked by
the government's Internet filtering system and found
the highest percentage of blocked sites in the categories of pornography,
drugs, and gambling. The study found less evidence of blocking related to
the state of Israel (2% of sites tested), the
Jewish religion (0%), and alcohol (5%). The study also revealed that
blocking has changed since 2000. The Israeli Defense Forces website, for
example, was blocked in 2002 and 2003 but not in 2004. The results of the
ONI study offer a window into the country's evolving efforts to manage the
type of information available to its citizens.
Read the full bulletin: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/studies/saudi/
Information on the OpenNet Initiative: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/
Thank you Contributing Editor Maura Conway for the report.
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