ACM

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ACM

• John R. White
• CEO

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Outline

• ACM Today
• ACM Transition
• ACM Initiatives and Priorities
• Digital Library
• Industrial Relations

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ACM Today

• Membership
• 80,000 members worldwide (30 outside U.S.)
• 60,000 professionals
• 20,000 students
• 680 chapters worldwide
• 540 student chapters
• 50 professional chapters
• 90 SIG chapters

• Publications
• 25 journals and magazines
• 80 conference proceedings
• Book series -- ACM Press
• Ubiquity -- a new electronic publication and
  forum addressing the profession of IT
• Digital Library

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ACM Today

• Technical Activities
• Thirty-six Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• 80 sponsored conferences and symposia
• Reaching into new areas --
• E-Commerce
• Continue active in established areas, for example
  ...
• Graphics Software Engineering
• Programming Languages Systems
• Software Engineering Theory

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ACM Today

• Education
• Continue collaboration with IEEE-CS and IFIP TC-3
• Curriculum
• Accreditation
• Increasingly active in elementary (K-12) issues
• Improving teacher training for teaching IT
• Improving education programs for IT
• Improving the use of IT in education
• John Glenn Commission
• Preparing to deliver the International Computing
  Drivers License (ICDL) in the U.S.

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Transition(s)

• ACM is in transition
• As a society
• As a business
• As a worldwide presence

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Transitions - as a society
From
To

• a membership organization
• a print-based published of journals and magazines
• an organization that measures success in terms of
  membership levels and subscription levels

• an electronic community
• not just ACM members
• IT professionals world-wide
• an electronic publisher
• an organization that measures success in terms of
  web-hits, digital library searches, and downloads
  from a world-wide-web community

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Transitions - as a business
From
To

• selling products
• charging for paper content
• selling to members

• selling an experience
• finding what you need
• using information differently
• charging for electronic services
• selling to everyone

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Transitions - in the world
From
To

• U.S. centric
• sub-member of IFIP
• New York centric operation
• competing for members with national societies

• global
• full international, member of IFIP
• CEO that lives and works in Europe
• providing value to members of all societies
  world-wide

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Transition - implications

• The future of ACM is as an electronic community
• What we sell is the value of being a part of
  the ACM electronic community
• The ACM electronic community is world-wide

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ACM - Current Initiatives

• Electronic products and services
• Digital Library
• Digital Video Library
• Worldwide accessibility and performance
• Education
• New focus on elementary (K-12) arena
• Information Technology Profession

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Information Technology Profession - Initiative

• Motivation
• The world is utterly dependent on the PEOPLE who
  design, build, manage, operate, teach, and repair
  information technology.
• Question/concern
• Who are these people?
• Are they receiving a proper education?
• Are they keeping up to date?
• Who certifies them?
• Are there enough of them?
• Are they trustworthy?

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Information Technology Profession - Initiative

• Goals
• Nurture the worldwide development of the
  Information Technology profession
• To establish the structures and environment that
  will enable the profession to flourish, including
  providing it with
• - a coherent identity
• - a substantial intellectual core
• - and recognized standards of practice

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Information Technology Profession - Initiative

• Activities
• Formulating what it means to be an IT
  professional
• Ensuring professional education meets the needs
  of IT professionals and those who employ them.
• Addressing professional issues such as standards
  of practice, certification, risks to the public,
  and the ethical responsibilities of
  practitioners.
• Creating model projects within universities,
  pre-college schools, and nonacademic training
  programs that will test the effectiveness of
  different approaches to professional IT
  education.
• Enlisting professional societies in allied
  disciplines and in other countries to develop
  coordinated stances on critical issues in
  curricular reform, workforce development,
  research partnerships between academia and
  industry, professional certification, and
  lifelong learning.

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Information Technology Profession - Initiative

• Current State
• Leader Peter Denning
• Steering Committee being formed
• Specific projects being formulated
• Working to build a coalition of corporations and
  societies worldwide

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Outline

• ACM Today
• ACM Transition
• ACM Initiatives and Priorities
• Digital Library
• Industrial Relations

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Digital Library

• History
• Digital Library Today
• Future Plans

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Digital Library - History

• 1990 - Electronic publishing initiative
• Electronic production and distribution vision
• 1996 - plans for a Digital Library announced to
  members
• 1997 - Digital Library launched
• Full text for all journals, magazines, and
  proceedings 1991 - 1997
• Citations for all journals, magazines, and
  proceedings 1985 - 1991
• 150,000 pages
• Open House until December 31, 1997
• January 1, 1998 began selling subscriptions to
  ACM members and institutions

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Digital Library - Today

• Subscriptions
• 35,000 individual
• 19,000 professionals
• 16,000 students
• 350 institutional
• institutional subscriptions
• consortia
• corporate site licenses

• Content
• All journals 1985-2000
• All proceedings 1985-2000
• Size
• 700 proceedings
• 22 journals (15 years)
• 50,000 entries
• 370,000 pages
• 10,000 critical reviews

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Digital Library - Features

• Organization
• Meta-data in HTML
• Citation
• Abstract
• Index terms
• Critical reviews
• Full Text in PDF
• Meta-data freely accessible
• Four third-party journals included

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Digital Library - Features

• Worldwide delivery via Digital Island
• Digital Island content delivery solutions
  company
• Data centers interconnected via an ATM backbone
• Local content (caching) centers
• Private network with direct reach in 25 countries
• Objective ensure high-performance access
  worldwide
• Digital Library available to members of other
  societies
• Agreements in place with 10 societies
• Moving to include content from these societies
  where appropriate

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The Digital Library Today

• Monthly activity
• 1Million hits
• 80,000 searches
• 100,000 downloads
• 64,000 proceedings
• 36,000 journals and magazines
• 200 GB of traffic

• Digital Island
• All non-North American traffic moving over DI
  network
• Past 30 days (MB)
• North America 12,940
• Asia/Australia 38,141
• Europe 49,250
• Latin America 3,344
• Africa 295
• TOTAL 103,970

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Digital Library - Future Plans

• Complete the capture of all ACM content
• All journals, proceedings, SIG Newsletters from
  1947 forward
• Include the ACM Guide to Computing Literature
• 350,000 citations
• Services
• Technical interest profiling and early alert
  service
• Virtual Binders for organizing digital library
  content
• Electronic forums
• Reference linking using DOI and CrossRef facility
• More third-party content

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Industrial Relations

• A viable relationship with industry is critical
• Partners - in shaping the leading edge of
  information technology
• Customers - of what we produce
• Resource - for special projects and programs
• A viable relationship with industry is a
  challenge
• Industry expects relevance
• Industry expects a tangible return one their
  investment

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ACM Experience

• Engage industry in ACM leadership
• President
• Members of ACM Council
• Partner on critical projects
• ACM1
• Education
• Certification
• Supporting the IT profession
• Industrial Advisory Board