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- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
- Retrospective Collections:
Readings in Computer Architecture (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
Edited by Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi , Gurindar S. Sohi
25 Years of the International Symposia on Computer Architecture (Selected papers), Edited by Gurindar S. Sohi, ACM Press, 1998.
- Award:
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Influential Paper Award (from 15 years previous conference)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer & Society (SIGCAS)
- Celebrating their 40th Anniversary
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM)
- Think Protocols Digital Archive: a collection of early network papers http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/digital_archive.html
- Tutorial on the Technical History of the Internet (1999): http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm99/tutorials.html#Technical_history
- Article in CACM May, 2007 Special Issue, SIGCOMMs archaeological journey into networkings past
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
- SIGCSE Schedule of Conferences and Symposia
- SIGCSE Oral History of Computer Educators
Building a Sense of History: Narratives and Pathways of Successful Computing Educators, Working Group at ITiCSE 2005.
- ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA)
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SIGDA is Interviewing founders of their field - interviews along with key papers to be put together on a DVD.
- ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)
- SIGGRAPH Pioneer Day
- Retrospectives:
Milestones in computer graphics: the SIGGRAPH history project, E. Jan Hurst, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics 22(5) (October 1988), ACM Press.
A history of ACM SIGGRAPH, Judy Brown and Steve Cunningham, Communications of the ACM 50 (5) (May 2007).
ACM SIGGRAPH 89 Panel Proceedings
Retrospectives I: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard
Retrospectives II: the early years in computer graphics at MIT, Lincoln Lab, and Harvard
- ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
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SIGIR Digital Museum of IR Research
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History of SIGIR Conference
- ACM Special Interest Group on IT Education (SIGITE)
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SIGITE is creating a history of SIGITE.
- ACM Special Interest Group on Performance Evaluation (SIGMETRICS)
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SIGMETRICS has a webpage on the History of SIGMETRICS including its conferences, officers, stories, trivia, and web.
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM)
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SIGMM has a Preservation Chair for their conference
- ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility ofSystems Users, Data, and Computing (SIGMOBILE)
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SIGMOBILE History Webpage
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SIGMOBILE Has captured all their past conference websites
- ACM Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD)
- SIGMOD History Webpage: new oral history on the creation of TODS and VLDB conferences, plus the early history of SIGMOD, complete list of SIGMOD volunteers, etc.
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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the relational model with a CACM article and interviews published in SIGMOD Record throughout the year.
Video interviews
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Sponsored an oral history of ACM Turing Award winner Charles Bachman.
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Sponsoring the copying and digitization of 2500 pages of historical material, to be included in the Turing Award web site for Charles Bachman.
- Sponsored transcription of the CODASYL (Conference on Data System Languages) (May 27, 1969) and Herbert R. Grosch (July 15, 1970, August 24, 1970, August 28, 1970, November 9, 1970, March 30, 1971, May 7, 1971) tapes
- ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS)
- SIGOPS History: A Chronological History of SIGOPS: its Officers, Conferences, and Awards
- ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
- A Chronology of SIGPLAN: its Officers, Conferences, Awards, and more
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HOPL-III vidoes now available in ACM DL at portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1238844
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Password protected list of SIGPLAN volunteers available at www.sigplan.org/database.htm
- Awards
Most Influential Paper Awards from 10 years prior conferences, Programming Language Design and Implementation, International Conference on Functional Programming, Principles of Programming Languages and Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Architectures.
- History of Programming Languages Conference series
- Retrospective:
20 Years of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 1979-1999, A Selection. Edited by Kathryn S. McKinley, ACM 2004.
- Co-sponsored the oral history of Jean Sammet, former ACM president and founder of HOPL
- Sponsored transcription of Ralph Griswold (May 14, 1972, May 21, 1972, and May 28, 1972) interviews
- Article in May 2007 CACM Special Issue A history of the history of programming languages
- ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)
- ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS)
- History of SIGUCCS Webpage
Conferences
- Supercomputing Conference
- The SCxy History: a community supported digital archive which contains a variety of digitized files that serve as a historical sources of the annual ACM/IEEE supercomputing conferences from 1988 to the present.
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