Education & Conferences
Last updated: June 21, 2001

Maintained by BRIAN CURTIS
Atlanta Chapter

Here you'll find links to non-STC conferences and educational opportunities in online information.

Technical Communication Institute for Teachers (TCIT)

July 11-13: This conference will be held in Rochester, New York and is designed to help middle and high school teachers and administrators incorporate technical communication skills into their curricula and schools. For more information, please contact

• Lisa Moretto, (716) 461-3617, rgi_lisa@compuserve.com
• Ron Blicq, rgi_ron@compuserve.com

Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group for Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web (SIGWEB)

August 14-18: Hypertext 2001 Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia in Arhus, Denmark. For more information, visit http://www.ht01.org/.

November 9-10: DocEng '01, a symposium on the Document Engineering Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia. For information, visit http://campus.acm.org/calendar/confpage.cfm?ConfID=2001-1181.

Solutions, WinWriters

August 21-24: WinWriters and Solutions are jointly sponsoring the 5th Annual Conference on Help Technology at the World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, visit http://www.solutionsevents.com/01helpconference/index.html.

For more information about Solutions and WinWriters, refer to these sites:

• http://www.winwriters.com/ressems.htm
• http://SolutionsEvents.com/

Association for Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group for Documentation (SIGDOC)

October 21-24: SIGDOC 2001 Conference on the Design of Communication in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The theme for 2001 is "Going Global: Communicating in the New Millennium." For more information, please contact:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

2001 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC 2001) October 24-27, 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico

To learn more about the ACM, visit these Web sites:

• http://ieee.org/
• http://ieee.org/about/
• http://www.ieee.org/conferences/ IEEE conference information

Institute of Science and Technical Communicators, UK (ISTC)

Learn about ISTC by visiting http://www.istc.org.uk/.

International Council for Technical Communication (INTECOM)

See http://www.istc.org.uk/int.htm for information about INTECOM.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

The following ACM SIGs might be of interest to STC OISIG members:

• Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web (SIGWEB)
• Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
• Systems Documentation (SIGDOC)
• Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)

To learn more about the ACM, visit these Web sites:

• http://www.acm.org/
• http://www.acm.org/sigs/ ACM SIGs and SIG conferences
• http://www.acm.org/events/ ACM conference information