Annual report for SIGIR, July 2001 - June 2002

SIGIR again had a busy and fruitful year in 2000-2001, sponsoring or co-sponsoring several successful conferences, and offering new member services. The current officers are: Susan Dumais, Chair; Susan Gauch, Vice-Chair; Liz Liddy, Secretary, and Jamie Callan, Treasurer. In our continuing effort to make SIGIR a truly international organization, two regional representatives are appointed by the executive committee and serve as part of the SIGIR-EC. Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia) and David Harper (The Robert Gordon University, UK) are the regional representatives. David replaces Peter Schaeuble (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) who had served as the European representative for several years. We thank Peter for his hard work. SIGIR's Information Officer, Eric Brown (IBM, USA) does a fine job in maintaining and expanding the SIGIR home page (http://www.acm.org/sigir). Eric recently replaced Charles Viles (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) who had served as SIGIR’s Information Officer for several years. We thank Charlie for many years of hard work and enthusiasm in moving SIGIR’s resources to the web.