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SIGecom news SIGecom News DAVID C. PARKES School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 We have had another successful year! Before I forget: join the SIG1 to keep our membership healthy and be able to participate in the nominating process for our new awards, and remember to use the ACM Author-Izer to drive additional revenue to the SIG.2 Our main conference, EC'13 was held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA in June 2013, and broke all previous attendance and submission records, achieving 210+ attendees and 221 submissions. Congratulations to everyone involved! In recent years there have been a number of discussions about the name of the conference, in regard to whether it suitably reflects the breadth of our scientific community. There is no perfect name for a community such as ours, and this has been reflected in a vigorous debate of the pros and cons of our current and future conference name. The SIG advisory board, consisting of previous EC conference and program chairs and SIG officials, voted in July 2013 by 15 to 10 in favor of a change of name, and strong support was also voiced by conference attendees at the business meeting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGecom Exchanges Association for Computing Machinery

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1551-9031
DOI
10.1145/2692359.2692362
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SIGecom News DAVID C. PARKES School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 We have had another successful year! Before I forget: join the SIG1 to keep our membership healthy and be able to participate in the nominating process for our new awards, and remember to use the ACM Author-Izer to drive additional revenue to the SIG.2 Our main conference, EC'13 was held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA in June 2013, and broke all previous attendance and submission records, achieving 210+ attendees and 221 submissions. Congratulations to everyone involved! In recent years there have been a number of discussions about the name of the conference, in regard to whether it suitably reflects the breadth of our scientific community. There is no perfect name for a community such as ours, and this has been reflected in a vigorous debate of the pros and cons of our current and future conference name. The SIG advisory board, consisting of previous EC conference and program chairs and SIG officials, voted in July 2013 by 15 to 10 in favor of a change of name, and strong support was also voiced by conference attendees at the business meeting

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ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Nov 25, 2014

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