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/sig/ , n. (also common as a prefix in combining forms) A Special Interest
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Group, in one of several technical areas, sponsored by the Association for
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Computing Machinery; well-known ones include SIGPLAN (the Special Interest
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Group on Programming Languages), SIGARCH (the Special Interest Group for
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Computer Architecture) and SIGGRAPH (the Special Interest Group for Computer
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Graphics). Hackers, not surprisingly, like to overextend this naming
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convention to less formal associations like SIGBEER (at ACM conferences) and
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SIGFOOD (at University of Illinois).
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