Date: Jul 14, 1996 6:46 AM
Author: Nasser Abbasi
Subject: just curious, why SIGSAM losing members?





Crusing the net, I saw this, from SIGSAM home page, annual 
report 1995:

>End of November 1993, SIGSAM had a total of 1004 members. End of May 
>1995, SIGSAM has a total of 738 members. This decline is somewhat 
>higher than the SIG average (36% for SIGSAM and 27% for SIG
>average) and runs counter to the growth of our field in the 
>applications and educations sectors.


Is not symbolic algebra a growing field? What do you think then
the decline means? Does it mean much?  and why total membership
for SIG also on decline? too much $$ to join?

inquiring minds wan'a know...

thanks,

Nasser


-- 
Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. GeneAssist - A client/server application 
for Nucleic acid and protein sequence search and analysis. 
Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division. email:  nasser@apldbio.com   
MSEE(control), MSCS, MSCE, FM (Fide Chess Master).