SIGDOC Newsletter
March 2007
:: Volume 8, Number 1
Looking Ahead
Conferences: SIGDOC 2007
25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
October 18-20, 2007
El Paso, TX
http://www.sigdoc.org/2007
UTEP and El Paso
The University of Texas at El Paso will host the SIGDOC 2007 conference.
UTEP is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Research University—High
Research Activity. UTEP, the largest majority-Mexican-American university
in the nation, serves about 20,000 students.
UTEP has a striking campus, with buildings in the architectural style
of kingdom of Bhutan. The architecture was inspired by similarities between
El Paso’s mountainous terrain and that of the Himalayas. SIGDOC
2007 participants will stay in the new Hilton Garden Inn, also built
in the Bhutanese style, located on campus immediately adjacent to the
Union building, which houses our conference center.
Registration for SIGDOC 2007 includes three breakfasts, two lunches,
all snack breaks, and Tuesday’s night’s banquet at Ardovino’s
Desert Crossing. The only meal for which you will be on your own is Monday
night’s dinner. The conference Web page on Practical Information
has a dining guide that lists many of the many restaurants near the hotel.
The SIGDOC 2007 banquet, included in your registration, will be at Ardovino’s
Desert Crossing, in New Mexico. Coach service from the conference hotel
will be provided. Ardovino’s Desert Crossing is the last outpost
of the U.S., right on the lower slopes of Mount Christo Rey, which separates
the United States from Mexico. The brother and sister team of Robert
and Marina Ardovino renovated the original buildings once known as “Ardovino’s
Roadside Inn,” transforming an old ranch house and barn into a
swank new restaurant and banquet facility. Built in the early 1900’s,
the Ranch House, now the setting of the Restaurant and Mecca Lounge,
was homesteaded by Eileen Berg. An accompanying stone water tower and
windmill provided water to the ranch and the surrounding grounds.
The banquet will feature Judith Ramey, who will accept SIGDOC’s
Diana Award on behalf of The University of Washington’s Laboratory
for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE). Every two years SIGDOC presents
the Diana Award to an organization, institution or business for its long-term
contribution to the field of communication design. This year, the Diana
Award is presented to LUTE in recognition of...
- the balancing of its research, educational, and corporate
partnership missions
- its publication history
- its history of producing graduate-level TC research as well as faculty
research
2007 Richard Tapia Celebration
of Diversity in Computing Conference
Dates: October 14 - 17, 2007
Location: Orlando, Florida
Website: http://www.richardtapia.org
Conference Theme: "Passion in Computing, Diversity in Innovation"
The 2007 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference,
co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE-Computer
Society in cooperation with the Computing Research Association, is a
celebration of the diversity of the researchers in the field of computing.
This conference will bring together diverse leading researchers from
around the world to present state-of-the art topics in the field of computing.
We invite researchers to submit to the technical program of Tapia 2007.
Topics of interest include:
- Information Security,
- Intelligent Systems,
- Human Centered Computing, and
- Computational Math and Science
However, submissions from any area
of computing research are welcome. Papers, Panels, and Workshops Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of no more
than four (4) pages, of, single-spaced 12-point type, including results,
figures and references.
We also invite authors to submit panel and workshop proposals of no
more than two (2) pages, single-spaced 12-point text. Panels and workshops
can focus on technical areas or issues related to increasing diversity
in the field of computing. The goal of a panel is to provide in-depth
presentations or discussion, whereas the goal of a workshop is to transfer
knowledge and skills.
All extended abstracts and proposals must be submitted electronically.
Details about electronic submission can be found on the conference website.
Extended abstracts and proposals must be submitted by March 30, 2007.
Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by June 15, 2007.
More information can be found at: http://www.richardtapia.org
Sponsors: The Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org) and
the IEEE
Computer Society (www.computer.org)
In cooperation with: The Computing Research Association (www.cra.org)
The 2nd International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Conferences
(KCC 2007)
Orlando, Florida on July 8-11, 2007
March 22nd, 2007 is the deadline for paper/abstract submissions and
invited session proposals. http://www.iiis-cyber.org/kcc2007
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