“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

HamburschWeb - Marti Hearst and James LandayPractice: Steve Bourne

Path to Launch (July 2008)

• Cannot wait for editorial board to form!

• Content pipeline must be primed!

• Solution: solo action by EiC (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: eScience• 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 F2F

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),• PerpsectiveWriter: ?

• OS: Ramadan+al:2007• TxLinux: Using and Managing Transactional

Memory in an Operating System (SOSP 07)• MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For

An Operating System (ISCA 07)• PerpsectiveWriter: 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 TinyOS.“ (NSDI 2004).

• PerpsectiveWriter: Zhao

• Algorithms: Arora+al:2004• Expander Flows, Geometric Embeddings and

Graph Partitioning (STOC 04)• PerpsectiveWriter: Tardos

Selected RH Articles III

• ProgLang/Formal: Harris+al:2005• Composable memory transactions (PPoPP

05)• PerpsectiveWriter: Shavit

• ProgLang/Formal: Blackburn+al:2006• The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java

Benchmarking Development and Analysis (OOPSLA 06)

• PerpsectiveWriter: Pugh

Selected RH Articles IV

• Arch/DA: Shaw+al:2007• Anton, a Special-Purpose Machine for

Molecular Dynamics Simulation (ISCA 07)• PerpsectiveWriter: Colwell

• DistributedSys: Kuhn+al:2007• Tight Bounds for Distributed Selection

(SPAA'07)• PerpsectiveWriter: 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?