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Welcome to the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the First Society In Computing. We invite you to participate in our monthly meetings and Professional Development Seminars.

News and Upcoming Events

• January 21: Programming Declaratively in C++ using the Logic Paradigm to be presented by Roshan Naik, Hewlett-Packard
  
  
• Wednesday, November 19: Erlang – scalable concurrent + computing for everyone to be presented by Francesco Cesarini and Yarif Sadan
  Read a review of the presentation at: Paul O'Rorke's Blog
  
  
• November 12 Datamining SIG - Cheap and Fast -- But is it Good? Evaluating Nonexpert Annotations for Machine Learning Tasks to be presented by Rion Snow, Stanford University
  
  
• Wednesday, October 8: Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network to be presented by Ellen Spertus, PhD, Research Scientist, Google Research
  
  
• Wednesday, October 15: The Intimate Integration of Photonics and Electronics to be presented by Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy , PhD., Sun Microsystems Microelectronic

• Wednesday, September 17: Information for People to be presented by Laura Haas, PhD, Almaden Research Center

• Wednesday, September 3: September Executive Committee Meeting

• Wednesday, August 13: Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner to be presented by Randall Matignon, Amgen Inc.

• Wednesday, July 16: The Next Wave of Computing: Injecting Intelligence into the Real World to be presented by Joe Polastre, PhD, Co-founder and CTO of Sentilla Corporation

• Saturday, June 21: All Day Professional Development Seminar - Introduction to AJAX to be presented by Michael Galpin, eBay

• Wednesday, June 18: Developing software for mobile devices - Nokia Internet Tablets to be presented by Tapio Tolvanen, Technology Manager for Nokia Devices' Linux Computers.

• Wednesday, June 11: Data Mining SIG: Automated Dependency Discovery of Hosts and Network Services in Distributed Systems to be presented by Moises Goldszmidt, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

• Wednesday, May 21: Blue Ruby - The Ruby way to talk to SAP Business Applications to be presented by Juergen Schmerder, SAP

• Wednesday, May 14: Data Mining SIG: Mining Quotations for Links and Ideas to be presented by Okan Kolak and Bill Schilit, researchers, Google Inc.

Acknowledgements

• The ACM would like to thank Nick Tredennick, PhD, Gilder Publishing for the talk Computing in Transition on Wednesday, April 16.

• The ACM would like to thank Yoram Singer, Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc for the talk Learning Outside the Box and the Simplex: Efficient Projection Algorithms for Sparse Representations on Wednesday, April 9 as part of the Data Mining SIG.

• Please take a moment to look at the various companies that have donated products and materials to the chapter

Logistics:

• Monthly Meetings:
  Dates: Third Wednesday of every month (except July, August and December)
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: Oak Room at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino

• Data Mining SIG:
  Dates: Second Wednesday of the month
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: SAP LABS, Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA (Google Maps | Yahoo! Maps | Mapquest)

Meetings are free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year
Contact us via email at humphrey@sfbayacm.org (Why Humphrey?)