ACM
John White
Chief Executive Officer
February 11, 2008
Outline
• Membership
• Financial outlook
• Digital Library
• Initiatives
– Internationalization
– Image and health of the field
– The new CACM
ACM - Membership
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Membership
– 86,932 members worldwide
• 64,532 professionals
• 22,420 students
ACM - Membership
•
Membership
– 86,932 members worldwide
• 64,532 professionals
• 22,420 students
•
Membership is growing
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Total Members
Professional Members
Student Members
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
ACM - Membership
•
Membership
– 86,932 members worldwide
– 79,168
• 64,532 professionals
• 22,420 students
•
Membership is growing
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Total Members
Professional Members
Student Members
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
ACM - Membership
•
Membership
– 86,932 members worldwide
– 79,168 (IEEE-CS on October 31, 2007)
• 64,532 professionals
• 22,420 students
•
Membership is growing
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Total Members
Professional Members
Student Members
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
ACM - Membership
•
Membership
– 86,932 members worldwide
• 64,532 professionals
– 79,168 (IEEE-CS on October 31, 2007)
– 84,400 (ACM on October 31, 2007)
• 22,420 students
•
Membership is growing
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Total Members
Professional Members
Student Members
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Financial Outlook
Financial Outlook
FY08
Projection
FY08
Budget
FY07
Actual
ACM General
Revenue
Expense
ACM GeneralNet
21,833
21,121
712
21,595
21,515
80
21,960
20,862
1,098
ACM SIGs
Revenue
Expense
ACM SIG Net
31,455
27,674
3,781
28,015
27,697
318
27,862
25,109
2,753
4,493
398
3,851
ACM Net
Financial Outlook
FY08
Projection
ACM General
MPO Revenue
MPO Expense
MPO Net
VM Revenue
VM Expense
VM Net
ACM General Net
FY08
Budget
FY07
Actual
20,565
18,015
2,550
20,327
18,409
1,918
20,123
17,621
2,502
1,268
3,106
(1,838)
1,268
3,106
(1,838)
1,837
3,241
(1,404)
712
80
1,098
Financial Outlook
FY08
Projection
ACM SIGs
Conf. Revenue
Conf. Expense
Conf. Net
Ops. Revenue
Ops. Expense
Ops. Nete
ACM SIGs Net
FY08
Budget
FY07
Actual
26,503
21,070
5,433
23,401
20,879
2,522
23,172
18,914
4,258
4,952
6,604
(1,652)
4,614
6,818
(2,204)
4,690
6,195
(1,505)
3,781
318
2,753
Financials
SIG Conferences
FY08
Projection
FY07
Actual Difference
Conference Revenue
Ten largest
Other
Conf. Net
18,122
8,381
26,503
15,924
7,248
23,172
2,198
1,133
3,331
Conference Expense
Ten largest
Other
Conf. Net
14,372
6,698
21,070
13,559
5,355
18,914
813
1,343
2,156
3,750
1,683
5,433
2,365
1,893
4,258
1,385
(210)
1,175
Conference Net
Ten largest
Other
Conf. Net
Financials
SIG Conferences
Conferences' Net
$5,000
$4,000
Net in Thousands Dollars
$3,000
$2,000
$1,000
$-
$(1,000)
$(2,000)
FY 2000
FY 2001
FY 2002
FY 2003
FY 2004
FY 2005
FY 2006
FY 2007
Big Five Net ($000)
$2,821
$3,825
$705
All Others Net ($000)
$1,191
$1,329
$738
$(1,560)
$434
$1,955
$2,477
$1,872
$946
$1,741
$1,590
$1,698
$2,386
Fiscal Years
Financials
DL Distribution to the SIGs
• DL Distribution in perspective
$1,574K
2000
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1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
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2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Financials
DL Distribution to the SIGs
• DL Distribution in perspective
$1,850K
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Financial Outlook
• FY’09 Budget
– Early stages
– Because of CACM investment ACM General will be tight
– Digital Library
• Budgeting significant growth in Digital Library revenue: ~$12 Million
• Budgeting significant DL distribution to the SIGs: ~$2+ Million
Digital Library
Digital Library Developments
• New business model for academic consortia and corporations
– Goal: create better parity and consistency across our customer base
– The new plan
• Differentiate by sectors (academic, government, comported)
• US academic
– Multi-tier pricing model
– Tiers based on Carnegie classification
• Non-US academic
– Multi-tier pricing model
– Tiers based on annual usage
• Government
– Single tier
• Corporate
– Multi-tier pricing model
– Tiers based on revenue and usage
Digital Library Developments
• New search technology
– Endeca
– Leader in “guided navigation” search technologies
– New search technology release a few weeks ago
• Initially released behind the traditional advance search model
• Immediate serge in searches: from 50,000 a day to 70,000 a day
• Significant performance improvement
– Coming shortly
• Author pages
• Surfacing (multiple) publication statistics
– A bit later
• Guided navigation
• Working with design/usability consultants
• Will also engage a small consulting group from Pubs and the SIGs
ACM Initiatives
ACM Initiatives
• Internationalization
• Image and health of the field and profession
• A new Communications of the ACM
Internationalization
Internationalization
• Better geographic diversity within ACM
• Country/region-specific initiatives
– China
– India
– Europe
Geographic Diversity
• Observations from the Council retreat
– More non-US members than FY’02
– ACM geographic distribution is not that different from IEEE
– Greatest geographic diversity is in and around research
publications
• DL access and usage
• Journal/transactions editors
• Pubs Board
• Program committees for major research conferences
– Least geographic diversity centers on ACM leadership
• Council and Boards
• SIG leaders
Geographic Diversity
• Discussion and actions from the Council retreat
– Lead from our strengths (research publications/conferences
and education) when engaging outside the US.
– Work to increase geographic diversity in all aspects of ACM
leadership.
– When reaching outside the research community to local
practitioners, reconsider partnerships with national societies.
• The EC agreed to oversee this effort
China
• In China, ACM’s main goals are to:
– Contribute to the advancement of computing
– Help develop high-quality professional activities in China
– Raise awareness of ACM in China
– Grow ACM membership in China
China
• Approach in China:
– Establish an ACM China Task Force to lead the effort
– Work with the Task Force to develop a multi-year plan for ACM and China
• The ACM China Task Force
– Members
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Andrew Yao (Chair)
Tsinghua University
Professor Chuang Lin
Former Head, Computer Science, Tsinghua Univ.
Professor Zjhiwei Xu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Zhang Yaoxue Ministry of Education
Dr. Hui Su
IBM China Research Laboratory
Dr. Hong-Jiang Zhang
Managing Director,
Microsoft Advanced Technology Center
• Stu Feldman
• John White
ACM President and Google
ACM CEO
China
• Elements of an initial ACM-China plan
– Establish an ACM China office
– Establish an ACM China website
– Engage the academic and research communities
– Engage industry
China
• Elements of an initial ACM-China plan (detail)
– Establish an ACM China office
• An ACM Branch office has been established at Tsinghua University
• The ACM China Office:
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Provides information in Chinese to current and potential members
Facilitates financial transactions in joining ACM
Leads the promotion of ACM into the academic community
Supports the ACM China website
Supports ACM activities in China
– Establish an ACM China website
• Provide a version of the ACM website localized for China
• Facilitates joining and communicating with ACM from within China
• Create Chinese DL (Digital Library) Pearls
– A selection of abstracts (translated into Chinese) identifying key
papers for Chinese computer scientists to consider reading
China
• Elements of an initial ACM-China plan (detail)
– Engage the academic and research communities
• Promote the value of ACM membership to faculty and graduate
students at top 100 universities
• Organize an annual Education Summit on “Challenges in
Computer Science Education in China”
– Curriculum
– Accreditation
– Issues in teaching computer science
• Encourage ACM SIGs to hold more research conferences in China
China
• Elements of an initial ACM-China plan (detail)
– Engage industry
• Promote the value of ACM membership to industry leaders
• Promote the value of ACM membership to technical staff at
Chinese computing companies and organizations
• Organize a Technology Summit
– Organize a technical summit to discuss the technical challenges facing
Chinese industry. An important goal of this meeting would be to raise
awareness of the importance of computing professional staying
technically engaged and aware throughout their career.
China
• Progress to date
– ACM China office is established
• ACM China Office
East Main Building 10-104
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China (100084)
• Contact: Ms. Xie Yuyuan
phone: +86-10-62787704
Email: China acm.org
• Office Hours: 8:00am – 12:00 am, 1:00pm-5:00pm
China
• Progress to date (cont.)
– ACM website up and running
• http://china.acm.org/
• Information on ACM and tools to join are available
• Chinese Digital Library Pearls available
– ACM Education Summit
• Planning is underway to host first summit in conjunction with the
CS Deans meeting in Beijing in October 2008
– Campaign to promote ACM to academic community underway
– Campaign to promote ACM to industry is being considered
India
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ACM India Task Force
– Co-Chairs
• Dr. C. Mohan, IBM India Chief Scientist
• Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
– Senior Advisor
• Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)
Bangalore
– Members
• Dr. M.P. Ravindra, Sr. Vice President and Head of Education & Research, Infosys
Technologies
• Dr. Kesav Nori, Executive Director and Executive VP, Tata Consultancy Services
• Prof. Pankaj Jalote, Microsoft Chair Professor at IIT Delhi
• Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, Dean R&D at IIT Bombay
• Prof. Sanjeev K. Aggarwal, Dept of CSE, IIT Kanpur
• Prof. Kincha, Vice Chancellor, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
• Ms. Aruna Sundararajan, Government of India (Dept of Info Tech); CEO, Common
Service Centers (CSC) Initiative
• H.R. Mohan, The Hindu Newspaper and Computer Society of India (CSI)
– Guests
• Chair of the ACM Bangalore Chapter
• ACM SIGCHI Bangalore Chapter
India
• First meeting of the task force held in the Fall
• Issues
– Nascent research community
– Raising the quality of education
– Computing professionals have a mix of formal educational
backgrounds
– Must work “bottom up”
• Next steps
– Considering an Education Summit
– Working with a potential local partner to reach industry
– Encourage SIGs to consider holding research conferences in India
• Continuing to think through a multi-year plan
Europe
• The greatest concentration of ACM members outside the
US is in Europe
– 16% or over 10,000 professional members
– Greater percentage of academics and researchers
• There are EU-wide computing efforts
– SIGOPS-Europe (and the EuroSys conference)
– Informatics Europe
• The “posture” ACM needs to take is a delicate issue
• Organizing a one-day workshop with key leaders from
academic and industry to discuss what ACM is doing and
should do in Europe
Image and Heath of the Field
Image and Health of the Field
• Activities
– Globalization Report
– Computer Science Teachers Association
– Image Task Force
– National Center for Women and Information Technology
– ACM Education Policy Committee
ACM Education Policy Committee
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New committee of the ACM EC
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Purpose: to bring the scientific computing community to education policy
discussions
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Empowered to speak for ACM
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Membership
– Robert Schnabel – Committee Chair, Indiana University
– J. Strother Moore – University of Texas
– Fred Chang – University of Texas
– Mark Stehlik – Carnegie Mellon University
– Chris Stephenson – Computer Science Teachers Association
– Joanna Goode – University of Oregon
– Staff support
• Cameron Wilson
• Dave Bruggeman
• John White
ACM Education Policy Committee
• An emerging focus/agenda
– Focus on education and advocacy (vs. program development)
– Focus (for now at least) on US Education
– Focus primarily on K-12 STEM education, as this is the area with
the most serious issues where and the most attention is needed
– Engage at both the federal and state levels
– Initial goal:
• See computer science moved to a “higher” more fundamental level
when thinking about STEM – and not buried inside “Technology” in
people’s minds
• Work to see computer science treated as a legitimate math/science
elective at the high school level
ACM Education Policy Committee
• Initial actions
– Commented on the National Science Board’s National Action Plan
for STEM Education
– Major review of the funding available for computer science in
NSF’s STEM programs
– Meetings with the EHR division of NSF to talk about computer
science
– Pushing NCTM to endorse our position that computer science
should be a viable mathematics elective in high school
– Panel session at SIGCSE
– Engagements at Snowbird
Image and Health of the Field
• Activities
– Globalization Report
– Computer Science Teachers Association
– Image Task Force
– National Center for Women and Information Technology
– ACM Education Policy Committee
ACM Initiatives
• Internationalization
• Image and health of the field and profession
• A new Communications of the ACM