professional organizations

[Jonathan]

Who is a member of any professional organization? Has anyone had luck in getting their company to pay the registration dues?

[Dave]

Nope, but i still get ASME crap asking to join. Almost the same amout of CMU ALumni donation request spam.

[bob]

I'm in the IGDA*. My renewal is coming up soon too. Damn. Students only have to pay $35, but I think now I have to pay about $150. I think the companies tend not to pay for memberships, because nobody's required to join or gets any tangible work benefit from it. Just the magazine, the meetings, and certain perks at conferences.

*International Game Developers Association. Not the International Gay Dogs Association, which George is a member of.

[Peijen]

Who is a member of any professional organization? Has anyone had luck in getting their company to pay the registration dues?

I was thinking about the actuary designation, but than I got lazy and moved to a different department. That's a good question though. I should ask my boss if they would pay for ACM and IEEE computer membership.

[VLSmooth]

I know Argon sponsors IEEE membership if I so desire it, but I'm not sure about others. I'm fairly confident they would pay membership fees for any other organization as long as I had a half-decent reason for it.

[skanks]

American Mathematical Society. Paid for the Grad School in fact.

[Martin]

American Mathematical Society. Paid for the Grad School in fact.

Paid for by the grad school?

I'm not a member of the Association of Computing Machinery. It's definitely a purely academic organization. I have been to an ACM conference though, but for students there was no discount for members.