Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

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.

Admin logoAdmin
The ACM@UIUC SysAdmins
Focus: Maintaining the ACM@UIUC infrastructure
Chair(s): Email
Meetings:
  Wednesday, 6:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
Gamebuilders logoGamebuilders
Special Interest Group for Game Development
Focus: Anything and Everything related to Game Development
Chair(s): Email
  Robert Lach
Meetings:
  Tuesday, 7:00PM 2405 SC
LUG logoLUG
Linux Users Group
Focus: Linux
Chair(s): Email
  Jerrod Sparks
Meetings:
  Friday, 6:00PM 1104 SC
MacWarriors logoMacWarriors
Macintosh Users Group
Focus: All things relating to Macintosh Computing.
Chair(s): Email
  Joseph Hagedorn
  Kevin Cathey
Meetings:
  Saturday, 3:00PM ACM Office; 1104 Siebel
SIGArch logoSIGArch
Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture
Focus: Computer architecture and hardware development.
Chair(s): Email
  Wit Riewrangboonya
Meetings:
  Thursday, 6:00PM ACM Office.
SIGART logoSIGART
Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence
Focus: Artificial Intelligence
Chair(s): Email
  Bonan Zheng
Meetings:
  Sunday, 4:00PM ACM Office
SIGBio logoSIGBio
Special Interest Group for Biocomputing
Focus: Interaction of biological and electronic systems
Chair(s): Email
  Jonathan Weissman
  Cyrus Omar
  Kimberly Vlcek
Meetings:
  Tuesday, 6:00PM ACM Office
SIGBot logoSIGBot
Special Interest Group for Robotics
Focus: Robotics
Chair(s): Email
  Andrew Eddleman
  Justin Conroy
Meetings:
  Wednesday, 7:00PM 1110 Siebel
SIGDave logoSIGDave
Special Interest Group for Short-Term Distractions
Focus: Eclectic Learning for Short Attention-Spans.
Chair(s): Email
Meetings:
  Thursday, 7:00PM ACM Office
SIGEmbeddedSIGEmbedded
Special Interest Group for Embedded Systems
Focus: Embedded Devices
Chair(s): Email
  Brandt Dusthimer
Meetings:
SigGraph logoSigGraph
Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics
Focus: Short Films, Video-Games, Graphics Research
Chair(s): Email
  Brett Jones
Meetings:
  Thursday, 7:00PM 0224 Siebel Center (Basement)
SIGMil logoSIGMil
Special Interest Group for Military Experimentation
Focus: Computer/Network/Systems/Physical security research and education.
Chair(s): Email
  Christopher Grier
  Frank Stratton
  Paul Dabrowski
  Steven Hanna
  Jason Roth
  Yunfan (Andy) Ying
  Aaron Gibson
Meetings:
  Friday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
SIGMusic logoSIGMusic
Special Interest Group for Music
Focus: Composing/Recording Music & Sound Using Computer Technology
Chair(s): Email
  Jacob Lee
  Alok Baikadi
Meetings:
  Thursday, 7:30PM 1112 Siebel Center
SIGNet logoSIGNet
Special Interest Group for Networking and Security
Focus: Computer Networks and Security
Chair(s): Email
  Christopher Clausen
  Joseph Re
Meetings:
  Tuesday, 7:00PM 1104 Siebel
SIGOps logoSIGOps
Special Interest Group for Operating Systems
Focus: Operating Systems
Chair(s): Email
  Vijay Ramesh
  David Majnemer
  Nathan Lawrence
Meetings:
  Sunday, 6:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
SIGPLAN logoSIGPLAN
Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
Focus: Programming Languages
Chair(s): Email
  Michael Ilseman
  Dennis Griffith
Meetings:
  Monday, 7:00PM 1112 SC
SIGSoft logoSIGSoft
Special Interest Group for Software Development
Focus: Software Engineering
Chair(s): Email
  Justin Tulloss
  David Paola
  Robert Smolinski
Meetings:
  Monday, 7:00PM 1103 Siebel
SIGWin logoSIGWin
Special Interest Group for Windows Development
Focus: Windows Development
Chair(s): Email
  Gregory Colombo
  Puskar Naha
Meetings:
WebMonkeys logoWebMonkeys
Special Interest Group for Web Development
Focus: (X)HTML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and related projects
Chair(s): Email
  Christopher Cizek
Meetings:
  Wednesday, 7:00PM 3401 Siebel Center

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.

IFVIFV
Illini Film and Video
Focus: Student Filmmaking
UBD
University Business Developers
Focus: We provide business development services to companies and entrepreneurs in their startup and growth stages.

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.

BUG
Be Users Group
Focus: Using the Be Operating System
CodeClub
Distribution Quality Software Maintenance
Focus: Distribution quality software development and maintenance
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.
SigACT
Special Interest Group for algorithms and computational theory
Focus: design and evaluation of compuational methods
SIGCASSIGCAS
Computers and Society
Focus:
SIGCHI
Computer-Human Interaction Group
Focus: Making life easier by improving hardware and software aspects of computing
SIGIRSIGIR
Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval
Focus:
SIGKDD
Special Interest Group for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Focus: Data Mining
SIGMation
Special Interest Group for Computer Automation and Entertainment Technology
Focus: Computer Automation, show control, entertainment technologies
SIGMicroSIGMicro
Special Interest Group for Microcomputing
Focus:
SigMobile
Special Interest Group for Mobile Computing
Focus:
SIGSAC
Special Interest Group for Security, Audit, and Control
Focus: security, auditing, and control
SIGUnix
Special Interest Group for UNIX
Focus: UNIX interests
SIGVR
Special Interest Group in Virtual Reality
Focus: