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Welcome to the September 14, 2011 edition of ACM Chapter Member News!
Chapters are the "local neighborhoods" of ACM. Our Professional and Student chapters worldwide serve as nodes of activity for ACM members and the computing community at large, offering seminars, lectures, and the opportunity to meet peers and experts in many fields of interest. With over 650 active chapters worldwide, we would like to take the time now to connect with all of you, and bring you a few of the ACM Highlights.
HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:
- Distinguished Speakers Program
- ACM Student Contests, Competitions, and Scholarships!
- What's New?
- Did you know?
- Welcome to Our Newest Chapters!
- Why join ACM?
Distinguished Speakers Program
A great speaker can be the difference between a good event and a WOW event! ACM now provides colleges and universities, corporations, event and conference planners, and agencies in addition to ACM local Chapters with direct access to top technology leaders and innovators from nearly every sector of the computing industry. Book the speaker for your next event through the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) and deliver compelling and insightful content to your audience. Our program features renowned thought leaders in academia, industry and government, speaking about the most important topics in the computing and IT world today. Our booking process is simple and convenient, please visit us at http://dsp.acm.org/
Transporation expenses for speakers are paid by ACM! View Financial Guidelines
ACM Student Contests, Competitions, and Scholarships!
Upsilon Pi Epsilon ACM Student Chapter Scholarship Award- In the search for excellence and professional commitment to the computing and information technology field, The Executive Council of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the Honor Society for Computing Sciences, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announces the UPE ACM STUDENT CHAPTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD. This year, up to four awards of $1,000 will be given from UPE to competition winners. Winners will also receive a certificate of commendation. The deadline for applications has been extended through October 14, 2011. http://www.acm.org/chapters/students/upe_award01
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Super Computing 2011 Early Registration Now Open! SC11 Aims to Unite HPC Communities The SC11 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis is set for November 12 to 18 in Seattle, Washington. SC11 will place an emphasis on bringing together communities to facilitate information exchange, discussions and new collaborations for research and education related to innovating high performance computing applications and advancing scientific discovery and scholarship. This year's conference will focus on data intensive science, its challenges and opportunities for addressing the exponential growth and demands in the generation and analysis of data. View the new interactive program schedule. Registration is now open; register by October 17 for significant savings. http://www.sc11.supercomputing.org/schedule/
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The 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference was held in Vancouver, BC, Canada from August 7-11. The 38th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques pulled in over 15,800 attendees from 74 countries, making it the largest conference in Vancouver history! SIGGRAPH 2012 will be brought back to Los Angeles, CA and held from August 5-9-- we can't wait to see you there! http://s2012.siggraph.org/
Welcome to Our Newest Chapters!
- ACM Delhi-NCR Chapter- New Delhi, India (Professional)
- aCTIv ACM (Student) Chapter- Timisoara, Romania (Student)
- FSU Panama City ACM Student Chapter- Panama City, FL, USA (Student)
- ISI Kolkata ACM Student Chapter- Kolkata, India (Student)
- ISOFT ACM Chapter- New Delhi, India (Professional)
- Jakarta, Indonesia ACM Chapter- Jakarta, Indonesia (Professional)
- KIIT University ACM Student Chapter- Bhubaneswar ,India (Student)
- PVP Siddhartha Inst. of Tech Vijayawada ACM Student Chapter- Vijayawada, India (Student)
- San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter - San Francisco, CA, USA (Professional)
- San Luis Potosi ACM Student Chapter- San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Student)
- SVCE ACM Student Chapter- Sriperumbudur, India (Student)
- Taiwan SIGSPATIAL ACM Chapter- Taipei, Taiwan (Professional)
- Texas A&M Central Texas ACM Chapter- Killeen, TX, USA (Professional)
- UNC Greensboro ACM Student Chapter- Greensboro, NC, USA (Student)
- University of Michigan ACM Student Chapter- Ann Arbor ,MI, USA (Student)
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