Why
Host an ACM Student Research Competition at your Special
Interest Group (SIG) Conference?
To: SIG Officers and/or Conference Organizers
From: Ann Sobel, ACM Student Research Competition Chair
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) previously
was a single venue event; it was traditionally hosted
at the ACM SIGCSE (Computer Science Education) Conference.
The SRC is unique in that it incorporates both undergraduate
and graduate student research presentations!
As a result of securing sponsorship from Microsoft Research
for the ACM SRC, we are now able to expand this program
by hosting at least three additional SRC’s (in addition
to the one hosted at the SIGCSE Conference) at selected
SIG Conferences.
Five reasons why your
SIG Conference should host an SRC:
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You will help
to give undergraduate students more venues in which
to present their research. |
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The entire program helps
to give more visibility to computer science research
and, therefore, the community benefits. |
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The ACM SRC Program is funded
so that this event does not have to put any further
financial pressure on your conference. |
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Your Conference’s visibility
will be increased as this event will be promoted
on ACM’s newly designed SRC website, and the
winners of the Grand Finals (i.e., those who are
selected from the winning students of the SIG Conference
hosted SRC’s) are honored at the Annual ACM
Awards Banquet. |
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You can benefit from the
already existing SRC infrastructure – the
SRC becomes a “plug-in” to your conference.
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Why was it important to expand this program?
More Student
Research is Encouraged:
Partnering with interested SIG Conferences permits us
to encourage more undergraduate and graduate student
research to be developed on more subjects. As this program
evolves over the years, it would be my intention to
sponsor as many subject-based SIG Conference-hosted
SRC’s as possible. And, increasing visibility
of computing research and advancing the arts and sciences
of computer science is ACM’s precise mission.
In addition, there are few venues for undergraduates
to present their research and the expanded SRC’s
will encourage this population of students.
Many SIG Conferences offer research competitions of
their own, and I have been working with interested SIG
Leaders to make the SRC an ACM-wide event, raising its
visibility by bringing the winners of the Grand Finals
of all of the SIG Conference SRC’s to the Annual
ACM Awards Banquet and recognizing them, along with
their advisors, at the same time ACM’s most prestigious
awards are presented. This, then, gives visibility to
both the SRC and to the SIG Conference that has hosted
it. I have been working with SIG Conference leaders
that already host research competitions and have found
ways to integrate the SRC Program successfully.
Ann Sobel
Chair, ACM Student Research Competition Committee
If you are interested in finding out more about
hosting a Student Research Competition at your
conference please contact:
Lillian Israel
ACM Membership Director
ACM Headquarters
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701
New York, NY 10121-0701
+1-212-626-0515
israel@acm.org
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