The soon to launch Communications Web site will break the bounds of the printed monthly. One way it will do that is by publishing extra content with many articles from the Communications magazine. Every article from the magazine will be available online, and authors and contributors are enhancing the online presentation of their articles by providing supplementary material in various multimedia formats. This includes related links, sidebars, podcasts, images, videos, and other material that does not appear in the print publication. These additions take advantage of the Web’s versatility, and provide readers with rich, robust content.
siG a WaRD WinnERs
the acM gordon Bell prize was awarded at the recent Sc08 conference for two categories: peak performance and special achievement. a team led by thomas Schulthess of the u.S. department of energy’s oak ridge National Laboratory, won in the category of peak performance for achieving the fastest-ever performance in a scientific supercomputing application. and a team led by Lin-Wang Wang from the u. S. department of energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won in the special achievement category for their research into the energy harnessing potential of nanostructures.
SIgda presented the 2008 pioneering achievement award to edward J. Mccluskey, director of the center for reliable computing at Stanford university, for his outstanding contributions to the areas of cad, test and reliable computing.
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Although Webster’s dictionary doesn’t define “ widgets” as a Web-site feature (nor does Encarta or American Heritage), Communications’ new Web site will have lots of them. Wikipedia calls widgets an “object on a computer screen the user interacts with.” The widgets on cacm.acm.org will be text boxes that link readers to the site’s most viewed, most emailed, most discussed articles, and to other content. Like any good design, widgets are both functional and decorative. They lead to information and enhance the look and feel of the site.
WEnDy hall sPEaKs acM president Wendy hall was a keynote speaker at the 50 Years of computing in Mexico congress,
organized by the National autonomous university of Mexico, and held in Mexico city. hall said the congress is a first step toward leveraging Mexico’s substantial assets—its large population; exposure to international firms engaged in hardware and software marketing and manufacturing; and desire to participate in the computing revolution—to becoming a key player in computing and information technology. She said this is a transformative time for the Mexican computing community, as well as the global computing arena, and encouraged them to pursue their vision to integrate Mexico into this diverse and dynamic world.
siGscE 2009 the 40th acM technical Symposium on computer Science education is being held in chattanooga, tN, from March 4–7. For more info, visit www. cs.arizona.edu/sigsce09.
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