SIGIR Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

The ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious technical award in the field of computing (often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of computing"), is turning 50! The ACM is throwing a big birthday celebration June 23-24, 2017 at the Westin St.Francis in San Francisco, California (https://www.acm.org/turing-award-50). Watch this video to learn more about the award and event, which includes commentary from many past recipients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v l7qprcl6a-Y . SIGIR is an event sponsor and as part of our sponsorship, we are sending 10 student delegates to the celebration. Those selected will receive travel grants of approximately $1000-2000USD to attend the celebration.