ACM’s Annual Report for FY09

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology.

Publications

This year marked the 10th anniversary of ACM’s Digital Library—the centerpiece of the ACM Publications portfolio. By year-end, the DL offered over 240,000 full-text articles and there were over 1. 25 million citations covered by the Guide to Computing Literature. Indeed, some 22,000 articles were added to the DL this year alone, and more than 128,000 works were added to Guide.

ACM’s pledge to continually upgrade the offerings and features available in the DL resulted in several significant enhancements in FY09. Working closely with the search applications company Endeca, ACM introduced a new DL platform this year that added more powerful search capability, allowing users to not only explore existing data but to discover information that goes beyond simple query results. This search technology employs a new class of database designed for exploring information, not just managing search transactions. Among the

new search enhancements are guided navigation; discovered terms drawn from ACM’s subject classifications and keywords; refinements by author, publication, conference, and other criteria; and the ability to view related material in ACM journals, magazines, SIGs, and conferences.

The ACM Publications Board initiated two programs this year to further its strategic goal of making ACM the preferred publisher in computing. The Board formulated a plan to relaunch ACM’s International Conference Proceedings Series as a high-quality alternative to Lecture Notes in Computer Science and it has begun development of a set of statistical quality measures to assist in ongoing assessment of its expanding journals program.

ACM currently publishes 78 periodicals, including six journals, 31 Transactions, eight magazines, and 23 newsletters. Two new periodicals appeared this year: Transactions on Computational Theory and Journal of Information and Data Quality. In addition, the Publications Board approved proposals for two new publications: ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.

education

ACM continues to work with multiple organizations on important issues related to the image of computing and the health of the discipline and profession. One of the Association’s most ambitious undertakings this year was its partnership with the WGBH Educational Foundation (a Boston-based PBS station) on a project entitled “New Image of Computing.” With funding from the National Science Foundation, the goal of this joint effort is to reshape the image of computing among high school students, with special efforts to reach Latina females and African-American males. The project will produce a wide-ranging national outreach and communications plan to spread the word about the rewards and benefits of a life in computing. A pilot project will also be launched to develop a comprehensive evaluation of the project findings, and create a plan for implementation on a national level.

ACM also worked with the Computing Research Association (CRA) and National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) to improve the profile of CS education efforts as part of the federal government’s Networking and Information

 

ACM Council
PResiDenT
wendy Hall
Vice PResiDen T
Alain Chesnais
secReTARY/TReAsuReR
Barbara Ryder
PAs T PResiDen T
stuart i. Feldman
siG GoVeRninG BoARD cHAiR
Alexander wolf
PuBlicATions BoARD co-cHAiRs
Ronald Boisvert, Holly Rushmeier
memBeRs-AT-lARGe
Carlo Ghezzi, Anthony Joseph,
Mathai Joseph, Kelly Lyons,
Bruce Maggs, Mary Lou soffa,
Fei-Yue wang
sGB council
RePResenTATiVes
Joseph A. Konstan, Robert A. walker,
Jack Davidson

ACM Headquarters
execu TiVe DiRec ToR/ceo
John R. white
DePu TY execu TiVe DiRec ToR/coo
patricia M. Ryan

2008 ACM Award
Recipients
A.m. TuRinG AWARD
Barbara Liskov
Acm-infos Ys founDATion AWARD
in THe comPu TinG sciences
Jon Kleinberg
Acm/AAAi Allen ne Well AWARD
Barbara Grosz and Joseph Y. Halpern
THe 2009–2010 Acm-W
ATHenA lec TuReR AWARD
susan eggers
GRAce muRRAY HoPPeR AWARD
Dawson engler

Acm-ieee cs
eckeRT-mAucHl Y AWARD
Joel emer
kARl V. kARls TRom
ou Ts TAnDinG eDucAToR AWARD
John Hopcroft
ou Ts TAnDinG con TRiBu Tion
To Acm AWARD
wayne Graves and Bernard Rous
Dis TinGuisHeD seRVice AWARD
telle whitney
PARis kAnellAkis THeoRY
AnD PRAc Tice AWARD
Corinna Cortes and Vladimir Vapnik
sof TWARe s Ys Tem AWARD
Gamma Parallel Database System,
David J. Dewitt, Robert Gerber,
shahram Ghandeharizadeh,
Goetz Graefe, Michael L. Heytens,
Hui-i Hsiao, Murali Krishna,
Jeffrey F. naughton, Donovan A. schneider,
Anoop sharma
siAm-Acm AWARD in
comPu TATionAl science
AnD enGineeRinG
Cleve Moler

Acm GoRDon Bell PRizes PeAk
PeRfoRmAnce cATeGoRY:
Multi-teraflops Simulations of Disorder
Effects on the Transition Temperature of
the High Tc Superconducting Cuprates.
From the oak Ridge national
Laboratory (oRnL):
thomas C. schulthess,
Gonzalo Alvarez, Michael s. summers,
Don e. Maxwell, Markus eisenbach,
Jeremy s. Meredith, thomas A. Maier,
paul Kent, eduardo D’Azevedo,
From Cray, inc.:
John M. Levesque, Jeffrey M. Larkin
sPeciAl cATeGoRY
in AlGoRi THm innoVATion:
Linearly Scaling 3D Fragment Method
for Large-Scale Electronic Structure
Calculations:
From Berkeley Labs:
Lin-wang wang, Byounghak Lee,
Hongzhang shan, Zhengji Zhao,
Juan Meza, erich strohmaier,
David Bailey
Doc ToRAl DisseRTATion AWARD
Constantinos Daskalakis
HonoRABle men Tion
Derek Hoiem, sachin Katti