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Welcome to the home page of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), the First Society In Computing. We invite you to participate in our monthly meetings and Professional Development Seminars.

News and Upcoming Events

• DM SIG - April 08, Wednesday: Using Supervised and Unsupervised Learning to Detect and Isolate Faults in Rocket Engines to be presented by Mark Schwabacher, NASA Ames Research Center



• April 15, Wednesday: Empowering Internet Users: Two Ideas to Reshape Broadband Policy to be presented by Dave Nielsen, Platform D



• May 20, Wednesday: OpenStreetMap to be presented by Steve Coast/Sarah Manely, CloudMade



• PDS - June 06, Saturday: Cloud Computing - From Getting Started and Tools, to Large Scale Architecture Design to be presented by Derek Slater, Google



• June 17, Wednesday: The Architecture of Mashups to be presented by Klaus Roder, IBM Silicon Valley Labs

Recent Events

• March 18, Wednesday: Microsoft Dryad to be presented by Yuan Yu, Microsoft Research



• February 18: Speech UIs for mobile applications to be presented by Bill Byrne, Google and Stanford University



• January 21: Programming Declaratively in C++ using the Logic Paradigm to be presented by Roshan Naik, Hewlett-Packard
  
  
• Wednesday, November 19: Erlang – scalable concurrent + computing for everyone to be presented by Francesco Cesarini and Yarif Sadan
  Read a review of the presentation at: Paul O'Rorke's Blog
  
  
• November 12 Datamining SIG - Cheap and Fast -- But is it Good? Evaluating Nonexpert Annotations for Machine Learning Tasks to be presented by Rion Snow, Stanford University
  
  

Acknowledgements

• Please take a moment to look at the various companies that have donated products and materials to the chapter

Logistics:

• Monthly Meetings:
  Dates: Third Wednesday of every month (except July, August and December)
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: Oak Room at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino

• Data Mining SIG:
  Note: There will be no meeting for January 2009.
  Dates: Second Wednesday of the month
  Time: 6:30pm Refreshments and Networking; 7:00pm Meeting
  Location: NASA Exploration Center, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

Meetings are free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year
Contact us via email at humphrey@sfbayacm.org (Why Humphrey?)