ACM

1. ACM John R. White CEO

2. Outline • ACM Today • ACM Transition • ACM Initiatives and Priorities • Digital Library • Industrial Relations

3. Membership 80,000 members worldwide (30% outside U.S.) 60,000 professionals 20,000 students 680 chapters worldwide 540 student chapters 50 professional chapters 90 SIG chapters Publications 25 journals and magazines 80 conference proceedings Book series -- ACM Press Ubiquity -- a new electronic publication and forum addressing the profession of IT Digital Library ACM Today

4. Technical Activities Thirty-six Special Interest Groups (SIGs) 80+ sponsored conferences and symposia Reaching into new areas -- E-Commerce Continue active in established areas, for example ... Graphics Software Engineering Programming Languages Systems Software Engineering Theory ACM Today

5. ACM Today • Education • Continue collaboration with IEEE-CS and IFIP TC-3 • Curriculum • Accreditation • Increasingly active in elementary (K-12) issues • Improving teacher training for teaching IT • Improving education programs for IT • Improving the use of IT in education • John Glenn Commission • Preparing to deliver the International Computing Drivers License (ICDL) in the U.S.

6. Transition(s) • ACM is in transition • As a society • As a business • As a worldwide presence

7. a membership organization a print-based published of journals and magazines an organization that measures success in terms of membership levels and subscription levels an electronic community not just ACM members IT professionals world-wide an electronic publisher an organization that measures success in terms of web-hits, digital library searches, and downloads from a world-wide-web community Transitions - as a society From: To:

8. selling products charging for paper content selling to members selling an experience finding what you need using information differently charging for electronic services selling to everyone Transitions - as a business From: To:

9. U.S. centric sub-member of IFIP New York centric operation competing for members with national societies global full international, member of IFIP CEO that lives and works in Europe providing value to members of all societies world-wide Transitions - in the world From: To:

10. Transition - implications • The future of ACM is as an electronic community • What we “sell” is the value of being a part of the ACM electronic community • The ACM electronic community is world-wide

11. ACM - CurrentInitiatives • Electronic products and services • Digital Library • Digital Video Library • Worldwide accessibility and performance • Education • New focus on elementary (K-12) arena • Information Technology Profession

12. Information Technology Profession - Initiative • Motivation • The world is utterly dependent on the PEOPLE who design, build, manage, operate, teach, and repair information technology. • Question/concern: • Who are these people? • Are they receiving a proper education? • Are they keeping up to date? • Who certifies them? • Are there enough of them? • Are they trustworthy?

13. Information Technology Profession - Initiative • Goals: • Nurture the worldwide development of the Information Technology profession • To establish the structures and environment that will enable the profession to flourish, including providing it with: • - a coherent identity • - a substantial intellectual core • - and recognized standards of practice

14. Information Technology Profession - Initiative • Activities: • Formulating what it means to be an IT professional • Ensuring professional education meets the needs of IT professionals and those who employ them. • Addressing professional issues such as standards of practice, certification, risks to the public, and the ethical responsibilities of practitioners. • Creating model projects within universities, pre-college schools, and nonacademic training programs that will test the effectiveness of different approaches to professional IT education. • Enlisting professional societies in allied disciplines and in other countries to develop coordinated stances on critical issues in curricular reform, workforce development, research partnerships between academia and industry, professional certification, and lifelong learning.

15. Information Technology Profession - Initiative • Current State • Leader: Peter Denning • Steering Committee being formed • Specific projects being formulated • Working to build a coalition of corporations and societies worldwide

16. Outline • ACM Today • ACM Transition • ACM Initiatives and Priorities • Digital Library • Industrial Relations

17. Digital Library • History • Digital Library Today • Future Plans

18. Digital Library - History • 1990 - Electronic publishing initiative • Electronic production and distribution vision • 1996 - plans for a Digital Library announced to members • 1997 - Digital Library launched • Full text for all journals, magazines, and proceedings: 1991 - 1997 • Citations for all journals, magazines, and proceedings: 1985 - 1991 • 150,000 pages • “Open House” until December 31, 1997 • January 1, 1998 began selling subscriptions to ACM members and institutions

19. Subscriptions 35,000 individual 19,000 professionals 16,000 students 350 institutional institutional subscriptions consortia corporate site licenses Content All journals: 1985-2000 All proceedings: 1985-2000 Size 700 proceedings 22 journals (15 years) 50,000 entries 370,000 pages 10,000 critical reviews Digital Library - Today

20. Digital Library - Features • Organization • Meta-data in HTML • Citation • Abstract • Index terms • Critical reviews • Full Text in PDF • Meta-data freely accessible • Four third-party journals included

21. Digital Library - Features • Worldwide delivery via Digital Island • Digital Island: content delivery solutions company • Data centers interconnected via an ATM backbone • Local content (caching) centers • Private network with direct reach in 25 countries • Objective: ensure high-performance access worldwide • Digital Library available to members of other societies • Agreements in place with 10 societies • Moving to include content from these societies where appropriate

22. Monthly activity 1Million hits 80,000 searches 100,000 downloads 64,000 proceedings 36,000 journals and magazines 200 GB of traffic Digital Island All non-North American traffic moving over DI network Past 30 days (MB): North America: 12,940 Asia/Australia: 38,141 Europe: 49,250 Latin America: 3,344 Africa: 295 TOTAL 103,970 The Digital Library Today

23. Digital Library - Future Plans • Complete the capture of all ACM content • All journals, proceedings, SIG Newsletters from 1947 forward • Include the ACM Guide to Computing Literature • 350,000 citations • Services • Technical interest profiling and early alert service • Virtual Binders for organizing digital library content • Electronic forums • Reference linking using DOI and CrossRef facility • More third-party content

24. Industrial Relations • A viable relationship with industry is critical • Partners - in shaping the leading edge of information technology • Customers - of what we produce • Resource - for special projects and programs • A viable relationship with industry is a challenge • Industry expects relevance • Industry expects a tangible return one their investment

25. ACM Experience • Engage industry in ACM leadership • President • Members of ACM Council • Partner on critical projects • ACM1 • Education • Certification • Supporting the IT profession • Industrial Advisory Board