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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
  
  

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?)