ACM and its Special Interest Groups Host More Than 170 Events Worldwide

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Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education
By Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Best Paper at ITiCSE '24: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Mining Domain-Based Policies
By Si Zhang, Philip W. L. Fong
Best Paper Award at CODASPY '24: 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations
By Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, Apu Kapadia
Best paper award at CUI '24: ACM Conversational User Interfaces

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The Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is the premier conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, and will again include both on-demand presentations and scheduled sessions celebrating advancements in production and animation, research and education, arts and design, gaming, computer graphics, digital art, animation, visual effects, machine learning, artificial intelligence, immersive and mixed realities, scientific visualization, and more. Keynote speakers are Mark Zuckerberg (Meta Platforms), Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Mark Sagar (Auckland Bioengineering Institute), Dava Newman (MIT), and Manu Prakash (Stanford University). The event will be held in Denver, Colorado, USA.

The SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together researchers and practitioners from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Workshops and tutorials will include “Resource-Efficient Learning for Knowledge Discovery,” “Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications,” “Data Mining in Bioinformatics,” "Human-Interpretable AI," and more. Keynote speakers will be Tanya Berger-Wolf (Ohio State University), Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University), and Xihong Lin (Harvard University). The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.

The report, available here, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.