Special Interest Group

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This article is about technical associations. For political advocates, see interest group.

In technical fields, a Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area. Members of a SIG cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and often meet regularly, particularly at conferences.

Contents 1 Computing SIGs 2 Mathematics SIGs 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

[edit] Computing SIGs

SIGs exist for the fields of computing architecture, graphics, security, etc.

• Bluetooth Special Interest Group
• PCI Special Interest Group
• SFF-SIG
• 34 SIGs in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) include SIGGRAPH, SIGPLAN, SIGCOMM, SIGIR and SIGSAM
• Australian Computer Society
• British Computer Society, where the SIGs are called specialist groups.

[edit] Mathematics SIGs

The Mathematical Association of America includes several SIGs (known collectively as SIGMAAs) on mathematical areas.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Mensa International#Organizational structure
• Linux User Group

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "SIGMAA: Special Interest Groups of the MAA". Mathematical Association of America. 2008-08-22. http://www.maa.org/SIGMAA/. Retrieved on 2009-01-19. 

[edit] External links

• ACM: Special Interest Groups
• CHI Bangalore Group of HCI professionals, practitioners and students in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India