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Special Interest Group

Special Interest Group

:"This article is about computer associations. For political advocates, see interest group."In the computer field, a Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area. SIGs exist for the fields of computing architecture, graphics, security, "etc." Members of a SIG cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and often meet regularly, particularly at computing conferences.

Computing SIGs

* Bluetooth Special Interest Group
* PCI Special Interest Group
* 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".

ee also

* Mensa International#Organizational structure
* Linux User Group

External links

* [http://www.acm.org/sigs/ ACM: Special Interest Groups]
* [http://chibangalore.mypublicsquare.com/ CHI Bangalore] Group of HCI professionals, practitioners and students in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India

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