Special Interest Group
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In the computer field, a Special Interest Group is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area. It is usually abbreviated SIG. Thus there are SIGs for computing architecture, graphics, security, and so forth. Members of an SIG cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular area, and often meet regularly particularly during computing conferences.
In other fields SIGs may be sub-organizations within a larger group, which allow individuals interested in a smaller area, possibly irrelevant to the main group, to meet others who share their particular concerns, without generating the feeling that the purpose of the parent organization is being subverted.
[edit] Computing SIGs
- Bluetooth Special Interest Group
- 34 SIGs in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) include SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCOMM, and SIGSAM
- Australian Computer Society
- British Computer Society, where the SIGs are called specialist groups.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- ACM: Special Interest Groups
- CHI Bangalore Group of HCI professionals, practitioners and students in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India
