News from the SIGs

Ellen L. Walker

Professor of Computer Science Hiram College Hiram, OH 44234 USA

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Amber Settle

Vincent de Paul Associate Professor School of Computing College of Computing and Digital Media DePaul University Chicago, IL 60604 USA

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Steve Zilora

Associate Professor and Chair Information Sciences and Technologies Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York 14623

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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

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