SIGGRAPH attracted almost 25,000 artists, researchers, gaming experts, filmmakers, and developers representing 79 countries to its annual conference. The San Diego-based meeting also drew 230 companies to its exhibition hall, an increase of 12% over the previous year.
SIGMM reported a record number of attendees to its annual ACM Multimedia Conference held in Augsburg, Germany. The meeting also attracted a record number of paper submissions (up 43% from 2006) and offered a greater variety of content tracks than ever before.
SIGMOBILE experimented with co-locating its annual conference on mobile computing and networking with its annual symposium on mobile ad hoc networking and computing. Attendees reacted so favorably to the experiment, the SIG is planning try it again in 2010.
assEts
Cash and cash equivalents
Investments
Accounts receivable and other current assets
Deferred conference expenses and other assets
Fixed assets, net of accumulated depreciation & amortization
$20,783
49,045
6,344
5,626
1,621
total assets
$83,419
liaBilitiEs anD nEt assEts
Liabilities:
Accounts payable, accrued expenses, and other liabilities
unearned conference, membership, and subscription revenue
$7,396
19,061
total liabilities
$26,457
net assets:
unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
51,343
5,619
The Membership Services Board chartered 47 new chapters in FY08, six of which were international professional chapters. Of the 40 new student chapters, 20 were internationally based.
The ACM History Committee continues to foster collection, preservation, and interpretation of ACM’s history and its role in the development of computing and information technology. An additional six oral histories with ACM luminaries were completed this year. More progress was also made on the committee’s Web site (http://history. acm.org) with the goal of assembling a critical mass of source historical material that will enable historians to analyze and organize a rich history of ACM.
total net assets
56,962
total liabilities and net assets
$83,419
optional contributions fund – program expense
Education board accreditation
uSACM Committee
($000)
$50
20
total expenses
$70
Major inroads were made this year to expand ACM’s internationalization initiative. Paramount in this movement was the opening of an ACM office in China in December 2007. The office, hosted by Tsinghua University, supports several functions including maintaining the ACM China Web site and actively promoting ACM membership within the Chinese academic community. Indeed, over 300 members joined ACM through the China office in its first six months of operation.
The ACM India Task Force met to address how the Association could best support the discipline and field of computing in India and in the process be more relevant to, and visible within, the Indian computing community. A number of key issues and potential directions surfaced from that meeting, including ACM’s strengths in engaging India’s CS education at the university level as well as the unique challenges of and potential opportunities for tapping into India’s computing community.
A meeting with European com-
puting leaders last May helped ACM strengthen its ties with the region and better understand the key issues and initiatives within the European academic, research, and professional computing communities.
The Education Board continues to expand its global reach, particularly throughout Europe and Asia. The Board participated in activities associated with Informatics Europe as well as European accreditation efforts. Board members helped plan the recent Education Summit in China, and kept a close eye on the activities leading to
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