News from the SIGs
Ellen L. Walker
Professor of
Computer Science
Hiram College
Hiram, OH 44234 USA
walkerel@hiram.edu
Amber Settle
Vincent de Paul Associate
Professor
School of Computing
College of Computing and
Digital Media
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60604 USA
asettle@cdm.depaul.edu
Steve Zilora
Associate Professor and Chair
Information Sciences and
Technologies Department
Rochester Institute of
Technology
Rochester, New York 14623
USA
Stephen.Zilora@rit.edu
DOI: 10.1145/3080623 Copyright held by authors.
something that allows us to “jump
on the internet” when we’re visiting
our local Starbucks. Instead, it will be
inextricably woven into the fabric of
our lives just as electricity is today.
Terms like ubiquitous and pervasive
have been bandied about, but I prefer
immersive. Computing will not be
something we do, it will be something
that is. The questions for us as ethical
IT professionals and educators are,
how do we embrace it and what may
we be leaving behind?
For more information on these SIGs, see the
following websites
SIGCSE: www.sigcse.org
SIGITE: www.sigite.org
SIGMIS: www.sigmis.org
References
1. SACM Awards; http://awards.acm.org/grades-of-membership.cfm. Accessed 2016 March 31.
2. ACM/IEEE 2017 Information Technology Task
Group on I T, IT2017 Report v0.51, 2016.
3. Zilora, S. “News from the SIGs.” ACM Inroads¸
7, 1 (2016), 9-10.
effect technology is having on our
lives. We are social creatures, after
all. Does technology enhance our
interactions or transform them? If
the latter, is this a good thing? I think
these are very relevant questions for
us as IT educators. One of the aspects
I love about IT is that it is about the
application of computing—how can
we leverage computing to address
all sorts of problems. An emerging
area of IT is city science. At the 2016
SIGITE conference, Nigel Jacob
from Boston’s Office of New Urban
Mechanics spoke about the ways in
which IT is being applied throughout
the city. Will this be another watershed moment as in the late 1800s
when Edison lit up Pearl St. and made
electricity part of the fabric of our
lives? Looking at this one example of
city science highlights the role of IT
in the 21st century. It will no longer be
a back-office operation that supports business needs. Nor will it be
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