Special Interest Groups

The ACM SIGCSE Award for Distinguished Service to the Computer Science Education Community honors an individual who has a long history of volunteer service to the computer science education community. This service, which is not limited to service to SIGCSE, may take many forms, such as professional society leadership, conference organization, outreach efforts, editorial board participation, or any of a number of other types of service to the computer science education community. Awards may recognize service at any level, for example: K-12, college, graduate, or continuing post-college. This award was initiated in 1997.

SIGARCH announced the release of Episode 18: "Codesign for Industrial Robotics and the Startup Pivot", featuring guest Dan Sorin, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and co-founder of Realtime Robotics. Sorin is widely known for his pioneering work in memory systems. He has co-authored the foundational Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence, which has become a foundational resource for students and researchers alike. Sorin's contributions span from developing resilient systems that tolerate hardware faults to innovations in cache coherence protocols, and has been recognized by multiple best paper awards and patents. 

The ASSETS Paper Impact Award is presented every other year (in odd-numbered years) to the authors of an ASSETS conference paper that has had a significant impact on computing and information technology that addresses the needs of persons with disabilities. The selection committee will focus on a paper's impact as judged by influence in the research community, a community of practice, industry, and/or social impact resulting from the work. The award includes a $500 prize and a plaque of recognition for the paper's authors. A public citation for the award will be placed on the SIGACCESS website.  Submissions for the 2025 award will open in Spring 2025.

Student teams from degree-granting institutions are invited to compete in the annual SIGMOD Programming Contest. The task of the SIGMOD 2025 programming contest is to implement an efficient in-memory join pipeline executor and operators that show great performance on different hardware architectures with a spectrum of hardware characteristics. The team registration and submission sites open February 17, and February 24, 2025 respectively. 

To support the professional development of Ph.D. students working in the field of modeling and simulation, SIGSIM offers travel support for up to 20 students to attend the Winter Simulation Conference.

Individual awards of up to $1000 will be made. These awards can be used for travel, lodging, and registration expenses. 

The SIGUCCS Academy returns to SIGUCCS 2025 with three great topics – Project Management, Communication, and Student Management. Designed to balance practicality with the hallmark SIGUCCS experience, each academy session provides a half-day of structured and interactive workshops tailored for learning useful skills.  Attendees can participate in the Academy at no cost as part of their conference registration. In addition to learning new skills, they will earn a Credly badge for participating in all three sessions of an Academy topic. 

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ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) regularly cite outstanding individuals for their contributions in more than 30 distinct technological fields.