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“CACM Is Dead, Long Live CACM”

“CACM Is Dead, Long Live CACM”. Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Feb. 11, 2008. HQ Activities. Hired Publisher: Scott Delman 2. Graphic re-design: Pentagram 3. Hired advertising manager and web editor. Editorial Board: Section Co-chairs.

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“CACM Is Dead, Long Live CACM”

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  1. “CACM Is Dead, Long Live CACM” Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Feb. 11, 2008

  2. HQ Activities • Hired Publisher: Scott Delman 2. Graphic re-design: Pentagram 3. Hired advertising manager and web editor.

  3. Editorial Board:Section Co-chairs Research Highlights – Stuart Russell and David Patterson Contributed Articles- Al Aho and George Gottlob News – Marc Najork and Prabhakar Raghavan Viewpoints - William Aspray and Susanne Hambursch Web - Marti Hearst and James Landay Practice: Steve Bourne

  4. Path to Launch (July 2008) • Cannot wait for editorial board to form! • Content pipeline must be primed! • Solution: solo action by EiC (Sep. 2007)

  5. Priming the Content Pipeline • Engage SIGs to nominate RH articles. • Solicit review articles • Solicit opinion articles • Plan interviews (Knuth)

  6. Review Articles • Jim Larus and Christos Kozyrakis: Transaction memories • Madhu Sudan: Complexity theory • Adnan Darwiche: Bayesian networks • Tony Hey: eScience • Jon Kleinberg: Social and information networks • Mark Oskin: Crisis in computer architecture • Luca Cardelli and David Harel: System biology • Sharad Malik: SAT Solving • Oren Etzioni: Information extraction

  7. Opinion Articles • Steve Andriole/Eric Roberts: CS Education (Point/Counterpoint) • David Dill/Daniel Castro: e-Voting (P/CP) • Rich Baranuik and Sidney Burris: Open educational resources • Genevieve Bell: Technology and culture • Lazowska: CCC • Irving Wladawsky Berger: Science of Services • Rich Rashid: The Image Crisis • Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney: Gender Gap

  8. Research Highlights Board • Martin Abadi (UCSC and Microsft) • P. Anandan (Microsoft India) • Deborah Estrin (UCLA) • Stu Feldman (Google) • Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Weizmann Inst.) • David Harel (Weizmann Inst.) • Maurice Herlihy (Brown U.) • Norm Jouppi (HP Labs) • Andrew B. Kahng (UCSD) • Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara) • Michael Reiter (UNC) • Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford U.) • Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT) • David Salesin (U. Washington and Adobe Systems) • Guy Steele (Sun Microsystems) • Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)

  9. RH Nominating SIGs • SIGACCESS • SIGARCH • SIGBED • SIGCSE • SIGDA • SIGDOC • SIGIR • SIGKDD • SIGMICRO • SIGOPS • SIGPLAN • SIGSAC • SIGSOFT • SIGWEB

  10. RH Selection Process • SIG nominations • EB nominations • Discussion by RH board at EB F2F meeting on 1/15/08 in Houston • Web voting by RH board • Quality • Breadth of interest • Diversity

  11. Selected RH Articles I • Graphics: Hayes+Efros:2007 • Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs (SIGGRAPH 07), • PerpsectiveWriter: ? • OS: Ramadan+al:2007 • TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System (SOSP 07) • MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System (ISCA 07) • PerpsectiveWriter: Moir

  12. Selected RH Articles II • Network/Embedded: Levis+al:2004 • "Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks." (NSDI 04) • "The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in TinyOS.“ (NSDI 2004). • PerpsectiveWriter: Zhao • Algorithms: Arora+al:2004 • Expander Flows, Geometric Embeddings and Graph Partitioning (STOC 04) • PerpsectiveWriter: Tardos

  13. Selected RH Articles III • ProgLang/Formal: Harris+al:2005 • Composable memory transactions (PPoPP 05) • PerpsectiveWriter: Shavit • ProgLang/Formal: Blackburn+al:2006 • The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis (OOPSLA 06) • PerpsectiveWriter: Pugh

  14. Selected RH Articles IV • Arch/DA: Shaw+al:2007 • Anton, a Special-Purpose Machine for Molecular Dynamics Simulation (ISCA 07) • PerpsectiveWriter: Colwell • DistributedSys: Kuhn+al:2007 • Tight Bounds for Distributed Selection (SPAA'07) • PerpsectiveWriter: Papadimitriou?

  15. Proposed Nomination Model • Nominations by authorized nominators • Conferences covered (quality, ACM and non-ACM) • Selection process (e.g., CACM Nominating Committee) • SIGs invited to apply • Perhaps other organizations (e.g., AAAI?) • Comments?

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