ACM SIG Governing Board Report on ACM History
ACM SIG Governing Board Report on ACM History Committee Mark Scott Johnson 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report
Presentation Outline n n n n Executive Summary Background Committee Goals Current Projects Future Projects Some SIG Efforts to Date Q&A 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 2
Executive Summary n n n The ACM EC recently chartered and seeded a standing committee to preserve ACM’s history. I’ve been appointed to represent the SIGs on this committee. There will be funding requests to the SIGs in the future. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 3
Background n n 2003/08: Rick Snodgrass (SIGMOD Past Chair) circulates proposal to preserve ACM’s history. 2003/12: Maria Klawe (ACM President) appoints Rick cochair of Ad Hoc Committee on ACM History. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 4
Background n n n (cont. ) 2004/01/30 -31: Committee meets in New York City. 2004/02: ACM EC approves standing ACM History Committee (same members). 2004/03: ACM Council asked to approve first-year budget. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 5
Background n (cont. ) Committee Members: n n n Rick Snodgrass, Co-Chair David Wise, Co-Chair (and ACM VP) Beth Kaplan, Archivist, Charles Babbage Inst. Bill Aspray, Historian, Indiana Univ. Tom Haigh, Historian, Consultant Mike Mahoney, Historian, Princeton Univ. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 6
Background n (cont. ) Committee Members (cont. ): n n n Pat Ryan, ACM COO TBD, ACM Awards liaison TBD, ACM Ed Board liaison [Bob Allen], ACM Pubs Board liaison M. S. Johnson, ACM SGB liaison 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 7
Committee Goals n n n Preserve historical materials to help historians tell ACM’s story. Convey ACM’s contributions to the History of Computing. Help SIGs preserve their history and convey their contributions. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 8
Current Projects n Oral Histories n n Turing Award Website n n 5 -10/year, starting with early ACM Presidents and Turing Award winners Ei. C under ACM Pubs Boards Identify Possible External Funds 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 9
Current Projects n Ancillary Material in the DL n n n (cont. ) Non-technical portions of all ACM publications and conferences, including SIG newsletters Under ACM Pubs Board ACM HQ Archives n n n Audit existing archive Draft Archive Retention Policy Draft Archive Plan 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 10
Future Projects n n n Create ACM Archive. Improve ACM (including SIG) Award Websites. Develop Training Workshops on History (for SIGs and others). 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 11
Future Projects n n n (cont. ) Encourage Scholarship of the History of Computing. Encourage Scholarship of ACM’s Organizational History and Contributions to Computing. Produce Follow-up to Turing Award Lectures Book [possibly]. 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 12
Some SIG Efforts to Date n n SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH history columns in their newsletters SIGMOD History Project SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conferences SIGSOFT Impact Project 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 13
Q&A 2004/03/21 ACM History Committee Report 14
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