Communications - August 2008

cacm online
DOI: 10.1145/1378704.1378707
David Roman
small changes hint
at Bigger things
ACM
Member
News
Hiding In Plain Sight

The redesign of Communications Web site is taking place largely out of sight, though a clue to the coming changes is on the cover of this very issue. It’s sitting discretely under the name of the publication. It’s the new URL for the new site, which will launch in early 2009: cacm.acm.org.

Calling All Authors

The dramatic changes to Communications—the magazine—call for an equally distinctive selection of top-notch articles. The Editorial Board of Communications welcomes your submissions, which can be delivered online at cacm.acm. org/submissions.

Rules to Write By

This new editorial model comes with a new set of guidelines for authors to follow. A comprehensive description of what’s expected in a manuscript can be found in the Author Guidelines, available online at cacm.acm.org/guidelines.

acm PResiDentiaL
aWaRD WinneRs
The ACM Presidential Award
was recently presented to four
individuals. Steve Bourne was
honored for his leadership in
the creation of ACM Queue and
the ACM Professions Board;
Pat Ryan for her dedication to
ACM and its many volunteers;
Barbara Ryder for her efforts
on behalf of numerous ACM
committees, conferences, and
councils; and Moshe Y. Vardi
for his commitment to the ACM
Job Migration Task Force and
his new role as editor-in-chief of
Communications of the ACM.

Looking Good

You don’t need Google to learn about authors of the nearly one million Communications’ and other articles in ACM’s Digital Library. The new Author Profile pages provide biographical information as well as usage statistics that help measure an author’s impact. They also allow for community participation in the profiles. To investigate, click on an author’s name from the full citation page of any article in the Digital Library; www.acm.org/dl.

acm-W initiatiVe on Women anD minoRities Tracy Camp, former co-chair of ACM’s Committee on Women in Computing (ACM- W), is promoting a new project to attract women and other underrepresented groups to computing. This collaborative project, known as the Practices, Aggregation, Infrastructure, and Retrieval Service (PAIRS), is part of an ongoing ACM- W effort to develop a comprehensive collection of articles on women and minority groups in computing. So far, a collection of 135 resources, including research articles and teaching methods, are in the pipeline. For information about PAIRS, visit http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/ research/arc/pairs.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Each issue of Communications is available in a special Digital Edition, an electronic format that can be searched or downloaded. The latest Digital Edition, and an archive of past issues, is available online. The Digital Editions can also be viewed on a mobile phone, or via an RSS feed. Go to mags.acm.org/communications/.