2016 ACM SIG Elections
In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, the following SIGs will hold elections in 2016: SIGAI, SIGCSE, SIGDOC, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGHPC, SIGIR, SIGLOG, and SIGSIM.
ACM Policy and Procedures require that those SIGs holding elections notify their membership of candidates for elected offices. Below is a list of SIGs that have submitted their slate of candidates. Additional information will appear in the February or March issue of MemberNet.
In accordance with the SIG Bylaws, additional candidates may be placed on the ballot by petition. All candidates must be Professional members of ACM, as well as members of the SIG. Anyone interested in petitioning must inform ACM Headquarters (Pat Ryan, ACM, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, NY, NY 10121; ryan_p@acm.org) and the SIG Viability Advisor (Will Tracz, will.tracz@acm.org) of their intent to petition by 15th March. Petitions must be submitted to ACM Headquarters for verification by 31 March 2016.
SIGAI
Chair
- Sven Koenig
- Kiri Wagstaff
Vice-Chair
- George Bekey
- Sanmay Das
Secretary-Treasurer
- Maria Theresa Earle
- Rosemary Paradis
SIGCSE
Chair
- Amber Settle
- Paul Tymann
Vice-Chair
- Judy Sheard
- Ian Utting
Secretary
- Alison Clear
- Sue C. Fitzgerald
Treasurer
- Adrienne Decker
- John P. Dougherty
At-Large Member
- Elizabeth (Liz) S. Adams
- Dennis Bouvier
- Michelle Craig
- Cecily Heiner
- Shelly (Rachelle) Heller
- Jeffrey Miller
- Briana B. Morrison
- RoxAnn Stalvey
- Mark Allen Weiss
- Timothy Yuen
SIGDOC
Chair
- Claire Lauer
- Douglas Walls
Vice-Chair
- Carlos Evia
- Kirk St.Amant
- Jason Swarts
Secretary-Treasurer
- Elizabeth Keller
- Kristen Moore
ACM SIGGRAPH
Director-at-Large
- Tomasz Bednarz
- Carolina Cruz-Neira
- Mark Elendt
- Alyn Rockwood
- Wenping Wang
SIGHPC
Chair (Running unopposed)
- Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth
Vice-Chair
- John West
- James Kenneth Cliburn, Jr.
Treasurer
- Rajeev Thakur
- Wilfred Pinfold
Member-at-Large
- Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar
- Anne Fitzpatrick
- Torsten Hoefler
- Suzanne K. McIntosh
- Michela Taufer
SIGIR
Chair (Running unopposed)
- Diane Kelly
Vice-Chair
- Jaap Kamps
- Vanessa Murdock
- Tetsuya Sakai
Secretary
- Falk Scholer
- Ryen W. White
- Emine Yilmaz
Treasurer
- Krisztian Balog
- Ben Carterette
- Claudia Hauff
SIGLOG
Chair
- Frank de Boer
- Prakash Panangaden
- Simona Ronchi Della Rocca
- Aravinda Prasad Sistla
Vice-Chair
- Véronique Cortier
- Martin Hofmann
- Luke Ong
- Leszek Pacholski
- Frank Pfenning
Secretary
- Zakaria Chihani
- Elaine Pimentel
- Alexandra Silva
Treasurer
- Amy Felty
- Vivek Nigam
- R. Ramanujam
- Natarajan Shankar
SIGSIM
Chair (running unopposed)
- Margaret Lucas Loper
Vice-Chair
- George Riley
- Andreas Tolk
Secretary-Treasurer
- Denis Gracanin
- Kara A. Olson
CSCW 2016, Feb. 27–Mar. 2, San Francisco, California
The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Keynote speakers are Google Data Editor Simon Rogers and Instagram Co-founder Mike Krieger.
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SIGCSE 2016, Mar. 2–5, Memphis, Tennessee
The SIGCSE Technical Symposium addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. Scheduled keynote speakers are John Sweller, Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, and Karen Lee Ashcraft, an educational psychologist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
