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 The ACM@UIUC SysAdmins Focus: Maintaining the ACM@UIUC infrastructure Chair(s): Email Meetings:   Wednesday, 6:00PM 1104 Siebel Center
	Gamebuilders 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 Linux Users Group Focus: Linux Chair(s): Email   Jerrod Sparks Meetings:   Friday, 6:00PM 1104 SC
	MacWarriors 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 Special Interest Group for Computer Architecture Focus: Computer architecture and hardware development. Chair(s): Email   Wit Riewrangboonya Meetings:   Thursday, 6:00PM ACM Office.
	SIGART Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence Focus: Artificial Intelligence Chair(s): Email   Bonan Zheng Meetings:   Sunday, 4:00PM ACM Office
	SIGBio 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 Special Interest Group for Robotics Focus: Robotics Chair(s): Email   Andrew Eddleman   Justin Conroy Meetings:   Wednesday, 7:00PM 1110 Siebel
	SIGDave Special Interest Group for Short-Term Distractions Focus: Eclectic Learning for Short Attention-Spans. Chair(s): Email Meetings:   Thursday, 7:00PM ACM Office
SIGEmbedded	SIGEmbedded Special Interest Group for Embedded Systems Focus: Embedded Devices Chair(s): Email   Brandt Dusthimer Meetings:
	SigGraph 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 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 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 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 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 Special Interest Group on Programming Languages Focus: Programming Languages Chair(s): Email   Michael Ilseman   Dennis Griffith Meetings:   Monday, 7:00PM 1112 SC
	SIGSoft 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 Special Interest Group for Windows Development Focus: Windows Development Chair(s): Email   Gregory Colombo   Puskar Naha Meetings:
	WebMonkeys 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.
IFV	IFV 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
SIGCAS	SIGCAS Computers and Society Focus:
	SIGCHI Computer-Human Interaction Group Focus: Making life easier by improving hardware and software aspects of computing
SIGIR	SIGIR 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
SIGMicro	SIGMicro 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: