“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 EiC (Sep. 2007)
Priming the Content Pipeline
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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
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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
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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?