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ACM SIGecom. “ecom”: Electronic Commerce http://www.acm.org/sigecom History Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman First elected officers, 2003 Currently 453 members.
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ACM SIGecom • “ecom”: Electronic Commerce • http://www.acm.org/sigecom • History • Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman • First elected officers, 2003 • Currently 453 members …dedicated to the advancement of electronic commerce, principles and practice. As the leading computing-centric professional organization in the field, SIGecom seeks to promote the informed development of commerce automation technology, employing the best available engineering methods and economic understanding.
Annual since 1999 Premier forum for CS research in E-Commerce Strengths: Rigorous technical standards, reputation Bridging disciplines: economics/incentives with computation/technology Participation by top CS researchers in Theory, AI Weaknesses: Below target size/scope Subcritical participation from industry, other relevant technical areas ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce
Officers Chair: Michael Wellman Vice: Joan Feigenbaum Sec/Treas: Peter Wurman EC-07 (with FCRC) J MacKie-Mason, U Michigan (general) D Parkes, Harvard (prog) P Resnick, U Michigan (prog) L Fortnow, U Chicago (workshops) C Dellarocas, U Maryland (tut) Past Conference Officials: S Feldman (IBM) M Wellman (U Michigan) A Jhingran (IBM) J MacKie-Mason (U Michigan) D Tygar (UC Berkeley) Y Shoham (Stanford) D Menascé (GMU) N Nisan (Hebrew U) J Breese (Microsoft) J Feigenbaum (Yale) M Seltzer (Harvard) J Riedl (U Minnesota) M Kearns (U Penn) M Reiter (CMU) J Chuang (UC Berkeley) D Pennock (Yahoo) Volunteers
SIGecom Exchanges SIGecom Exchanges • Electronic newsletter http://www.acm.org/sigecom/exchanges • Published 3 times/year since Summer ‘00 • Complements conference in topic and level of research contributions • Editor • 2006+: William Walsh, CombineNet • 2004–2006: Amy Greenwald, Brown University • 2000–2003: Peter Wurman, North Carolina State U
Finances Deficit erased by financially successful conferences in 05 and (especially) 06.