Special Interest Groups

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With the theme "Generation New," SIGGRAPH will be a five-day immersion into the latest innovations in computer graphics, animation, virtual reality, games, digital art, mixed reality and emerging technologies. A Doctoral Consortium is being added this year. Rob Bredow, Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director, and Head of Industrial Light & Magic, will keynote.

The SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and Big Data. The event includes 27 workshops, 37 tutorials, and keynotes by ACM fellow Jeannette Wing (Columbia University), David Hand (Imperial College), Alvin E. Roth (Stanford University), and Yee Whye Teh (University of Oxford/Deepmind).

Teresa Meng has received the 2018 SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award for groundbreaking research, engineering and entrepreneurial leadership to make Wi-Fi faster, lower power, and lower cost. Meng is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor in Electrical Engineering, Emerita at Stanford University.

Fadel Adib of MIT received the 2018 SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Wireless Systems that Extend Our Senses," which proposes ways in which Wi-Fi signals, traditionally used for communication, can be extended for use as sensing tools that enable us to learn about our environment without physically reaching out to the various objects in it.

The flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication focuses on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols in the computer communication field. Workshops will cover IoT, Big Data analytics, mobile edge communications, and more. Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University), 2016 Athena Lecturer and 2004 Hopper Award recipient, will keynote.

The 18th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering will include workshops on modeling, detection, storage and visualization of documents; the future of scholarly publishing; and more. Scheduled keynote speakers are Gerald Penn (University of Toronto), Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo), and Maura R. Grossman (University of Waterloo, York University Osgoode Hall Law School and Georgetown University Law Center).

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