CACM Is Dead Long Live CACM Moshe Y

“CACM Is Dead, Long Live CACM” Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Feb. 11, 2008

HQ Activities 1. Hired Publisher: Scott Delman 2. Graphic re-design: Pentagram 3. Hired advertising manager and web editor.

Editorial Board: Section Co-chairs Research Highlights – Stuart Russell and David Patterson Contributed Articles- Al Aho and George Gottlob News – Marc Najork and Prabhakar Raghavan Viewpoints - William Aspray and Susanne Hambursch Web - Marti Hearst and James Landay Practice: Steve Bourne

Path to Launch (July 2008) • Cannot wait for editorial board to form! • Content pipeline must be primed! • Solution: solo action by Ei. C (Sep. 2007)

Priming the Content Pipeline • • Engage SIGs to nominate RH articles. Solicit review articles Solicit opinion articles Plan interviews (Knuth)

Review Articles • Jim Larus and Christos Kozyrakis: Transaction memories • Madhu Sudan: Complexity theory • Adnan Darwiche: Bayesian networks • Tony Hey: e. Science • Jon Kleinberg: Social and information networks • Mark Oskin: Crisis in computer architecture • Luca Cardelli and David Harel: System biology • Sharad Malik: SAT Solving • Oren Etzioni: Information extraction

Opinion Articles • Steve Andriole/Eric Roberts: CS Education (Point/Counterpoint) • David Dill/Daniel Castro: e-Voting (P/CP) • Rich Baranuik and Sidney Burris: Open educational resources • Genevieve Bell: Technology and culture • Lazowska: CCC • Irving Wladawsky Berger: Science of Services • Rich Rashid: The Image Crisis • Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney: Gender Gap

Research Highlights Board • • • • Martin Abadi (UCSC and Microsft) P. Anandan (Microsoft India) Deborah Estrin (UCLA) Stu Feldman (Google) Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Weizmann Inst. ) David Harel (Weizmann Inst. ) Maurice Herlihy (Brown U. ) Norm Jouppi (HP Labs) Andrew B. Kahng (UCSD) Linda Petzold (UC Santa Barbara) Michael Reiter (UNC) Mendel Rosenblum (Stanford U. ) Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT) David Salesin (U. Washington and Adobe Systems) Guy Steele (Sun Microsystems) Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute)

RH Nominating SIGs • • • • SIGACCESS SIGARCH SIGBED SIGCSE SIGDA SIGDOC SIGIR SIGKDD SIGMICRO SIGOPS SIGPLAN SIGSAC SIGSOFT SIGWEB

RH Selection Process • SIG nominations • EB nominations • Discussion by RH board at EB F 2 F meeting on 1/15/08 in Houston • Web voting by RH board • Quality • Breadth of interest • Diversity

Selected RH Articles I • Graphics: Hayes+Efros: 2007 • Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs (SIGGRAPH 07), • Perpsective. Writer: ? • OS: Ramadan+al: 2007 • Tx. Linux: Using and Managing Transactional Memory in an Operating System (SOSP 07) • Meta. TM/Tx. Linux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System (ISCA 07) • Perpsective. Writer: Moir

Selected RH Articles II • Network/Embedded: Levis+al: 2004 • "Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks. " (NSDI 04) • "The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in Tiny. OS. “ (NSDI 2004). • Perpsective. Writer: Zhao • Algorithms: Arora+al: 2004 • Expander Flows, Geometric Embeddings and Graph Partitioning (STOC 04) • Perpsective. Writer: Tardos

Selected RH Articles III • Prog. Lang/Formal: Harris+al: 2005 • Composable memory transactions (PPo. PP 05) • Perpsective. Writer: Shavit • Prog. Lang/Formal: Blackburn+al: 2006 • The Da. Capo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis (OOPSLA 06) • Perpsective. Writer: Pugh

Selected RH Articles IV • Arch/DA: Shaw+al: 2007 • Anton, a Special-Purpose Machine for Molecular Dynamics Simulation (ISCA 07) • Perpsective. Writer: Colwell • Distributed. Sys: Kuhn+al: 2007 • Tight Bounds for Distributed Selection (SPAA'07) • Perpsective. Writer: Papadimitriou?

Proposed Nomination Model • Nominations by authorized nominators – Conferences covered (quality, ACM and non. ACM) – Selection process (e. g. , CACM Nominating Committee) – SIGs invited to apply – Perhaps other organizations (e. g. , AAAI? ) • Comments?