Letter from the chair

At long last the completely redesigned and enhanced SIGART site is up and running. And are we glad! This morning the SIGART Board got the following email message from Chris Welty, our intelligence editor, who with his students first got the site up and running several years ago and has been maintaining it ever since: Wow, are we lucky. There was a lightning strike and power outage yesterday and the old sigart.acm.org, an 8-10 year old Sparc II, did not survive the incident as it has so many times before. It has served us well (moment of silence). I believe we are close to operational on the new Web site, and not a moment too soon. Indeed, Eric Wilson, our SIGART Information Director had recently transferred all the information off the old machine and onto the ACM server that we'll be operating with from now on. In addition to Eric Wilson, Chris Welty, and the members of the SIGART Board, we owe thanks to Bill Smith and Katrina Brehob of DiamondBullet, who designed and implemented the site. Among other features, it includes a very nice way for you to submit announcements for your AI related events or resources. Once you've entered information about your announcement, it will be automatically sent to Amruth Kumar who is serving as moderator. Now that the site is up, the focus for the next few months will be to increase the content and features available to members. We welcome your feedback and comments, and hope you will visit often!