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The Washington DC Chapter of ACM was formally established on November 1, 1958. Through the dedication and hard work of its volunteers, DC ACM carries out the ACM objectives at the community level, providing opportunities for meaningful connections between the area’s academics, professionals, and policymakers in the computer science and information technology fields.
ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. Currently there are more than 2,200 ACM members in the Washington Metropolitan Area. |
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 | SIGKDD Conference Streaming Keynote Speakers | By: Andrew Conklin | The SIGKDD Conference to be held in Washington, DC from July 25-28, 2010 is planning to stream the keynote sessions from the conference site: http://bit.ly/9eHb3cThe info for the 3 invited keynote speakers is below: 1. Monday Jul 26, 9-10 am: Dr. Qi Lu, head of Microsoft's Online division, "Online Services Division Strategy Overview" 2. Tuesday, Jul 27, 9-10 am: Prof David Jensen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, "Computational Social Science" 3. Web, Jul 28, 9-10 am: Konrad Feldman, CEO of Quantcast, "The quantification of advertising and lessons from building a business based on large scale data mining" | | Newly Elected Officers and 2010-2011 Goals | By: Andrew Conklin | On June 23nd, DC ACM held officer elections for the July 2010 - June 2011 term. The election results are as follows:
Chair: Isaac Christoffersen
Vice-Chair: Dr. Kent Miller
Treasurer: Ben Schultz
Secretary: Andrew Conklin
Member at Large: George Romas
The new Officers began their terms on July 1. The recently elected Chair, Isaac Christoffersen, best summarized our goals for the coming year in his position statement:
The Washington, D.C. Chapter of the ACM is one of the premier professional associations in the local DC Metropolitan area. In early 2000, the membership of DC ACM was in the single digits. Today, DC ACM has more than 150 members, and shows no sign of leveling off.
Our last two professional development seminars have been profitable. We have been able to partner with area organizations to bring in over $5,000 of free advertising for DC ACM, and each lecture program we co-host with the New America Foundation brings in more than $2,000 in inkind donations. In addition, we have established new relationships with SIGADA, the Baltimore ACM Chapter, SIG-CHI, and DC-SIGGRAPH, and held several joint programs and seminars for the benefit of each of our memberships.
As we continue to grow and reinvigorate the DC ACM professional community, our main focus must be on growing the membership and increasing the opportunities for our members to excel both professionally and academically. While our professional lecture series distinguishes our chapter from other area professional associations and has been a major contributor to our membership growth, it is a worthwhile loss-leader for the chapter, whose expenses can only be offset by three elements: sponsorship; a 200-300% increase in membership; and an increase in current revenue-generating programs such as our professional development seminar.
My goals for 2010-2011 are ambitious, yet achievable. They will be to:
- Recruit 5-10% of the area ACM members (approximately 2,220) to join DC ACM through outreach efforts to local ACM members, academic institutions and joint promotion campaigns with ACM Headquarters.
- Increase volunteer participation and hours by 20% through the expansion of our recruitment strategies to include other volunteer matching organizations.
- Finalize DC ACM’s strategic objectives for education, community, and professional excellence by the end of August 2010, and align all activities and resources (financial, volunteer, etc.) to these objectives by the end of January 2011.
Establish a new DC ACM sponsorship program that allows us to incorporate small donors and large area donors and brings in $5,000 in total donations.
- Reestablish the DC ACM Site Representative Program, in which current DC ACM members are ambassadors and recruitment officers for the chapter within their workplace and larger personal, academic and professional communities.
| | Latest Issue of CompuTopics | By: Andrew Conklin |
The latest edition of CompuTopics, the DC ACM newsletter, has been posted. A link to previous issues of CompuTopics is also available in the Resouces tab of the DC ACM website.
CompuTopics June 2010 Edition:
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