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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>SIG</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="Shub-Internet.html" title="Shub-Internet"/><link rel="next" href="sig-block.html" title="sig block"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">SIG</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Shub-Internet.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-block.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="SIG"/><dt xmlns="" id="SIG"><b>SIG</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sig/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (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
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Computer Graphics). Hackers, not surprisingly, like to overextend this
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naming convention to less formal associations like SIGBEER (at ACM
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conferences) and SIGFOOD (at University of Illinois).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Shub-Internet.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sig-block.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Shub-Internet </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sig block</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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