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