A N N U A L R E P O R T for SIGIR, July 1999 - June 2000 Susan Dumais, Chair SIGIR SIGIR again had a busy and fruitful year in 1999-2000, sponsoring or co-sponsoring several successful conferences, and offering a number of new member services. Although we continued to suffer a small decline in membership, the decline was less than the ACM SIG mean, and attendance at sponsored conferences continued to increase. New officers were installed at the SIGIR'99 Conference in August. The 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, Peter Schaeuble (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia) were appointed regional representatives to the SIGIR Executive Committee. The regional representatives are appointed by the executive committee to increase our international representation. SIGIR's Information Officer, Charles Viles (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA), did a fine job in maintaining and expanding the SIGIR home page (http://sigir.org). This has become an important resource for IR researchers and practitioners, and we anticipate that its influence will continue to grow. In October 1999, ACM held its Program review
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