At the core of ACM are a large group of Special Interest Groups. These groups meet weekly and discuss specific areas of computing. If you are interested in getting involved in a SIG, you can simply show up at their meeting. SIGs accept new members at any time in the semester, and are always happy to gain new help. If you've got questions about a specific SIG, email the corresponding chair listed below.
Active SIGs
The following SIGs are active and holding meetings.
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ACM SIGGRAPH
Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics
Focus: Animation & VFX, Video Games, Graphics Research, Multimedia, Software
Chair(s): Email
Andrew Christensen
Brian Tran
Meetings:
Thursday, 7:00PM 3401 Siebel Center
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Admin
The ACM@UIUC SysAdmins
Focus: Maintaining the ACM@UIUC infrastructure
Chair(s): Email
Meetings:
Wednesday, 6:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
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Gamebuilders
Special Interest Group for Game Development
Focus: Anything and Everything related to Game Development
Chair(s): Email
Kevin Dressel
Cameron Kikoen
Jordan Feller
Meetings:
Monday, 7:00PM Siebel Center 2405
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LUG
Linux Users Group
Focus: Linux
Chair(s): Email
Nicholas Tabick
Adrian Kreher
Meetings:
Tuesday, 6:00PM 1104 SC
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MacWarriors
Macintosh Users Group
Focus: All things relating to Macintosh Computing.
Chair(s): Email
Jonathan Kessler
Meetings:
Tuesday, 7:00PM 1302 SC
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SIGArch
Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture
Focus: Computer architecture and hardware development.
Chair(s): Email
Richard Otap
Meetings:
Thursday, 6:00PM ACM Office.
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SIGART
Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence
Focus: Artificial Intelligence
Chair(s): Email
Nikhil Johri
Darin Pantley
Meetings:
Thursday, 7:00PM 0218 SC
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SIGBio
Special Interest Group for Biocomputing
Focus: Interaction of biological and electronic systems
Chair(s): Email
Katharine Snell
Cyrus Rashtchian
Meetings:
Monday, 6:30PM ACM Office
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SIGBot
Special Interest Group for Robotics
Focus: Robotics
Chair(s): Email
Justin Conroy
Meetings:
Tuesday, 6:00PM 1110 Siebel
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SIGCHI
Computer-Human Interaction Group
Focus: Making life easier by improving hardware and software aspects of computing
Chair(s): Email
Marcela Musgrove
Meetings:
Wednesday, 6:30PM ACM Office (1104 SC)
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SIGDave
Special Interest Group for Short-Term Distractions
Focus: Eclectic Learning for Short Attention-Spans.
Chair(s): Email
David Paola
Stoyan Gaydarov
Meetings:
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SIGEmbedded
Special Interest Group for Embedded Systems
Focus: Embedded Devices
Chair(s): Email
George Karavaev
Meetings:
Thursday, 3:30PM ACM Front/Middle Room - 1406
Thursday, 7:00PM ACM Office Front/Middle Room - Siebel 1406
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SIGMil
Special Interest Group for Military Experimentation
Focus: Computer/Network/Systems/Physical security research and education.
Chair(s): Email
Christopher Grier
Yunfan (Andy) Ying
Vijay Ramesh
Aaron Gibson
Meetings:
Friday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
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SIGMusic
Special Interest Group for Music
Focus: Composing/Recording Music & Sound Using Computer Technology
Chair(s): Email
Alexander Paul
Meetings:
Tuesday, 6:00PM 1104 Siebel
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SIGNet
Special Interest Group for Networking and Security
Focus: Computer Networks and Security
Chair(s): Email
Christopher Clausen
Meetings:
Monday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel
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SIGOps
Special Interest Group for Operating Systems
Focus: Operating Systems
Chair(s): Email
Vijay Ramesh
David Majnemer
Nathan Lawrence
Meetings:
Thursday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
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SIGPLAN
Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
Focus: Programming Languages
Chair(s): Email
Nathan Lawrence
Meetings:
Monday, 7:00PM 1104 (then we move somewhere else)
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SIGSAC
Special Interest Group for Security, Audit, and Control
Focus: security, auditing, and control
Chair(s): Email
Christopher Clausen
Meetings:
Monday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel
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SIGSoft
Special Interest Group for Software Development
Focus: Software Engineering
Chair(s): Email
David Paola
Meetings:
Tuesday, 6:30PM 1105 Siebel
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SIGWin
Special Interest Group for Windows Development
Focus: Windows Development
Chair(s): Email
Puskar Naha
Bhargav Nookala
Meetings:
Thursday, 6:30PM 1104 Siebel
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WebMonkeys
Special Interest Group for Web Development
Focus: (X)HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and related projects
Chair(s): Email
Christopher Cizek
Robert Nubel
Meetings:
Wednesday, 7:00PM 0220 Siebel Center
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Partner Organizations
These organizations are strategic partners with ACM. Partnerships are designed for organizations that would like to work with ACM and use ACM facilities, but whose interests do not directly line up with those of ACM. If you or your organization is interested in partnering with ACM, please contact acm@uiuc.edu.
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IFV | IFV
Illini Film and Video
Focus: Student Filmmaking
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University Business Developers
Focus: We provide business development services to companies and entrepreneurs in their startup and growth stages.
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Defunct SIGs
These sigs are not currently active because they have no leader. If you are interested in leading any of these, please e-mail acm@uiuc.edu.
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BUG
Be Users Group
Focus: Using the Be Operating System
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CodeClub
Distribution Quality Software Maintenance
Focus: Distribution quality software development and maintenance
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FSS
The Free Software Society
Focus: The Free Software Society is a Sig dedicated to promoting and advancing understanding of Free Software to the greater university community.
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SigACT
Special Interest Group for algorithms and computational theory
Focus: design and evaluation of compuational methods
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SIGCAS |
SIGCAS
Computers and Society
Focus:
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SIGIR
Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval
Focus:
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SIGKDD
Special Interest Group for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Focus: Data Mining
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SIGMation
Special Interest Group for Computer Automation and Entertainment Technology
Focus: Computer Automation, show control, entertainment technologies
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SIGMicro
Special Interest Group for Microcomputing
Focus:
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SigMobile
Special Interest Group for Mobile Computing
Focus:
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SIGUnix
Special Interest Group for UNIX
Focus: UNIX interests
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SIGVR
Special Interest Group in Virtual Reality
Focus:
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