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/.
acm eLection ResuLts
Results of the recent General
Election are:
PResiDent:
Wendy Hall
J Strother Moore
Vice PResiDent:
Alain Chesnais 4,907
Joseph A. Konstan 3,546
secRetaRy/tReasuReR:
Norman Jouppi 3,523
Barbara Ryder 4,965
memBeRs at LaRGe:
Carlo Ghezzi
Anthony Joseph
Mathai Joseph
Chuang Lin
Daniel Ling
Kelly Lyons
Mary Lou Soffa
4,783
3,918
6,172
6,532
4,789
3,399
4,482
6,920
6,324