Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Dominant Strategy?


STOC Registration fee for non-members of SIGACT is $100 more than the registration fee for SIGACT members. SIGACT membership is only $18. What gives?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most institutions won't reimburse membership fees for professional organizations.

D. Sivakumar said...

Anon:
Most institutions won't reimburse membership fees for professional organizations.It's a shame then, that ACM would not charge just $18 more for the general registration and include a SIGACT membership with it -- rather than charging $100 more, the price of a full ACM membership, I think, and not even include a full ACM membership with the registration.