Sigaccess fy’04 Annual Report
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What are they?Communities are collections of people that are associated with SIGCHI who share a common interest. Communities may be geographic or topical. A community is a collection of people who by banding together can speak with a common voice and organize their needed activities. InfrastructureSIGCHI has created an infrastructure for the formation of communities. Any 5 SIGCHI members can form a community with the approval of the SIGCHI EC. They can then solicit members from the community at large. A SIGCHI member can be a voting member of at most 5 communities so as to focus their interest. They can be an affiliate member of as many communities as they desire. The infrastructure automatically manages elections, announcements, web space and mailing lists for communities. The procedures for managing the creation, approval and demise of communities have been encoded into the website so that there is a minimum of overhead for maintaining a large number of communities. GovernanceTo a large degree communities are self-governing. They may define their own sets of officers whether elected or appointed. They may then express themselves in whatever way they desire. ImpactCommunities become the mechanism for the membership to adapt SIGCHI to their needs. Communities will be the primary mechanism for the formation and management of small conferences. This will create an open self perpetuating leadership mechanism that is missing for many of the small conferences. This will also allow constituencies to organize and collectively express their needs and concerns in a more coherent way. This will also create mechanisms for developing volunteer leadership for SIGCHI at large. It is also hoped that this will simplify and regularize the creation and organization of local SIGCHI chapters. 4. Innovative programs which provide service to some part of our technical community 4.1. Public Policy 2010-2011 was the first full year that we had an Adjunct Chair for Public Policy, Jonathan Lazar, to create and curate a discussion of public policy within the SIGCHI community. Here are the SIGCHI activities related to public policy that took place during the year:
4.2. Education We have also begun our initiative of outlining a SIGCHI vision on HCI Education issues. Following the appointment of a Vice Chair for Education, Jennifer Preece, we have undertaken a study of the current state of HCI education. The study began in April 2011, and will be completed in December 2011 with a final report due in January 2012. We identified and have engaged a research assistant. Two phases of the three-phase study have been completed. Interviews and surveys of educators, researchers, managers, practitioners and students of HCI have been conducted and analyzed. A preliminary report has been generated and the final stage of the project is under development. The final stage of the study will include: focused surveys and interviews; brainstorming around HCI education methods and needs; and proposals for requirements and specifications for online resources, including social media infrastructures for reaching out to our constituencies, to support the broader HCI education community. 5 Summary of key issue that the membership of SIGCHI will deal with in the next 2-3 years We will continue to advance the internationalization of SIGCHI in the next few years with a continuing focus on Asia. We will also entertain specific proposals for workshops in other areas such as, but not limited to, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and South America. We will continue to seek to enhance our relationships to other societies and organizations broadly concerned with human computer interaction. In 2011, SIGCHI has 35 active local chapters on 5 continents, of which 32 are professional and 3 student chapters. SIGCHI Local Chapters are doing valuable work in gathering locally together students, academics, as well as practitioners in the field of HCI. This is why SIGCHI is actively searching for better means to support our chapters. Besides the existing ACM chapter benefits, during FY 2010-2011 SIGCHI EC decided to put forward the following benefits and opportunities for the SIGCHI Local Chapters:
SIGCOMM FY’11 ANNUAL REPORT July 2010 - June 2011 Submitted by: Bruce Davie, Chair SIGCOMM continues to be a vibrant organization serving the broad community of people interested in all aspects of computer networking. We continue to run a stable of successful, high-impact conferences, several of these being in co-operation with other SIGs. There are a number of highlights to report from the past year. One of the major efforts of the SIG for several years has been to increase the involvement of members of the community from outside the U.S. and Europe. This year was quite a milestone in that regard, as SIGCOMM became the first SIG to hold its annual flagship conference in India. The conference, held in New Delhi, was very successful, with attendance numbers comparable to prior years but with much greater representation from the Indian subcontinent. Fundraising from local companies was very effective and enabled a large amount of travel support to be offered to students both from the region and from around the world. The local organizing committee went beyond the normal call of duty to ensure smooth logistics and a good experience for all attendees. In the same vein, the SIG has increased its funding for regional conferences in the networking field as well as adding additional funds to the geodiversity travel grant program. The latter program enables young faculty from under-represented regions to attend our flagship conference; this year we have expanded it to also allow support for graduate students. We have also added COMSNETS, a major networking conference in India, to the set of regional conferences we support financially, while continuing to support the Latin American Networking Conference (LANC) and the Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC). We seek to foster the success of these conferences by means such as invited speaker support and student travel grants. The SIGCOMM newsletter, Computer Communications Review, continues to thrive as a journal with high quality and timely articles under S. Keshav's editorial guidance. An online submission and review system has been established, allowing authors and reviewers to interact with each other anonymously before a paper acceptance decision is made. This has substantially improved authors' perception of the review process and simultaneously improved the paper quality. Acceptance rates for the newsletter are around 20%, on par with top-tier conferences. CCR turnaround time is rapid compared to most journals: for technical papers it is 8 weeks for review and 16 weeks for publication; for editorials it is 1-3 days for review and 6 weeks for publication. We continue to offer both online and print access to the newsletter. This year we have begun to make some changes to the online presence of CCR, and we are examining the possibility of offering online-only SIG memberships in 2012 to those members who don't require a print copy of the journal. With respect to awards, SIGCOMM has recognized Vern Paxson with the SIGCOMM award for lifetime achievement; he will receive the award and present a keynote talk at the annual SIGCOMM conference in August 2011 in Toronto. SIGCOMM also has recognized "They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices" S. Gollakota, H. Hassanieh, B. Ransford, D. Katabi and K. Fu as the best paper in that conference. Two "Test of Time" awards will also be given at the conference for the best papers with long-lasting impact from 10-12 years ago. Those papers are both from SIGCOMM 2001: "Chord:A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications", by I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Karger, M. F. Kaashoek, and H. Balakrishnan, and "A Scalable Content-addressable Network", by S. Ratnasamy, P. Francis, M. Handley, R. Karp, and S. Shenker. SIGCOMM has recognized Nick Feamster with its Rising Star award; he received his award and delivered a keynote address at the CoNEXT conference held in December 2010 in Philadelphia. We have also instituted a new doctoral dissertation award, to recognize the best Ph.D. thesis in the computer networking field in a given year. The award runs on a similar timetable to the ACM's best thesis award. After several years of diligent service, Ramesh Govindan has stepped down as Awards Chair, and Bruce Maggs has been appointed in his place. Bruce will administer the numerous awards programs that the SIG offers. During the year, three SIGCOMM members were recognized as ACM Fellows: past SIGCOMM Chair Mark Crovella, Stefan Savage, and David Rosenblum. The following SIGCOMM members were made Distinguished Members of ACM: Martin Arlitt, Serge Fdida, Yu Charlie Hu, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Ramachandran Ramjee, Joseph. D. Touch, Alec Wolman, and Jun Xu.
(education.sigcomm.org) by which members of the community are able to share education-related resources. There will be a workshop on computer networking education at this year's annual conference. Olivier is also running a Shadow PC for the CoNEXT conference as a way to educate the current generation of graduate students in the best practices of technical paper reviewing and program committee operation. SIGCOMM has now had a Technical Steering Committee in place for just over a year. The TSC has responsibility for selecting PC chairs, crafting policies related to the PC operation and technical program, and providing a repository of knowledge about the technical aspects of the conference. Administrative and fiscal responsibility for the conference continues to reside with the SIGCOMM EC. The TSC has advised the 2011 PC Chairs and just selected PC chairs for the 2012 conference. We will shortly have the first opportunity to appoint new members to the TSC and two members' terms expire. In addition to supporting regional conferences, the SIG has capitalized on its strong financial position to increase general student travel support to both SIGCOMM and CoNEXT conferences. CoNEXT this year will take place in Tokyo, the first time it has been outside of Europe or the U.S. The CoNEXT conference is growing into a high-quality, general networking conference of comparable quality to the SIGCOMM conference. With a smaller audience than SIGCOMM, it can be a little more interactive, and has had successful panel sessions and student workshops. At CoNEXT 2010 in Philadelphia, an industry panel session focused on ways to improve the level of interaction among industrial and academic participants in our community, with representatives from Cisco, Conviva, CMU, Google, Intel, Juniper, and MIT. The issue of how networking research can have more impact on industry continues to attract attention. We have planned a second panel for the upcoming SIGCOMM conference and are examining the approaches taken by other SIGs (some of which have entire "industry days" at their conferences, for example). We continue to be concerned about the extreme selectivity of the flagship conference (which has an acceptance rate around 10%). As long as submissions rates remain high and we keep the conference single track, it is hard to directly affect the acceptance rate. We are attempting to build CoNext up to a level that it is seen as a peer conference to the Sigcomm conference, with a particular focus on high quality program committees and PC Chairs, to offer another venue for publication. We also seek to ensure that the paper selection process at the flagship conference is as fair and open as possible, something we hope the TSC can facilitate. Finally, we are attempting to make journal publication a more realistic alternative to the flagship conference. We have committed to provide financial support to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking to defray some of the page costs of longer papers, and our representatives on the ToN steering committee are also looking at ways to foster more community engagement (e.g. via online forums) with journal publications. Finally, the SIGCOMM main conference continues to thrive. In keeping with ACM's mission of becoming a more truly global organization, we are holding our flagship conference outside North America two years out of three. After the successful 2010 edition in New Delhi, SIGCOMM 2011 returns to North America, with Toronto being the host city. In 2012 we will be holding the conference in Helsinki, Finland. SIGCSE FY’11 Annual Report July 2010- June 2011 Submitted by: Renee McCauley, Chair This report concludes my first year as SIGCSE Chair. I want to thank all of the members of the 2010-2013 SIGCSE Board: Daniel Joyce, Vice-Chair, Doug Baldwin, Treasurer, Susan Rodger, Secretary, Barbara Owens, Immediate past-chair, Tiffany Barnes, Mark Guzdial and Amber Settle, our publication editors: John Impagliazzo, Z Sweedyk, and Henry Walker, and my ACM contacts, especially Ginger Ignatoff, for their support this past year. Awards: Each year, SIGCSE gives two awards for outstanding contributions to the computer science education community. The SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community was presented to Gordon Davies, Department of Computing, Open University (retired). The SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education was presented to Matthias Felleisen, Trustee Professor at College of Computer Science, Northeastern University. Both awards were presented during the 2011 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. In 2011, two of our conferences gave their first ever "best paper" awards. The SIGCSE 2011 best paper award went to Kathi Fisler, Guillaume Marceau and Shriram Krishnamurthi for their paper entitled "Measuring the Effectiveness of Error Messages Designed for Novice Programmers." ITICSE 2011 best paper award went to Randy Connolly for his paper "Beyond Good and Evil Impacts: Rethinking the Social Issues Components in Our Computing Curricula."
SIGCSE sponsored three conferences: the Technical Symposium, the ITiCSE conference and the research conference known as the ICER workshop. The International Computing Education Research Workshop (ICER 2010) was held in Aarhus, Denmark at Aarhus University, August 9 & 10, and was chaired by Michael Caspersen. A Doctoral Consortium for Ph.D. students pursuing computer science education research was held on August 8. The workshop included 12 papers and one keynote address. It also included two workshops: a pre-conference workshop on assessment and a post-conference workshop on how a socio-cultural framework can enrich (research in) computer science education. The number of attendees was 38. The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011) was held at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas, March 9-12, and was chaired by Ellen Walker and Thomas Cortina. The conference drew a record crowd and included 3 keynote presentations, 107 papers, 22 panel or special sessions, 35 workshops, 48 posters, 36 birds-of-a-feather sessions, 7 videos, a student research competition, and a robot hoedown. The number of attendees was 1187. The Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education conference (ITiCSE 2011) was held in Darmstadt, Germany at Technische Universität Darmstadt, and was chaired by Guido Rößling. The program included 3 working groups, two keynote presentations, and 65 papers, 52 posters and 16 tips, techniques, or courseware presentations. The number of attendees was 199. In addition, SIGCSE cooperates with many groups and grants in-cooperation status to several conferences, giving us an even larger impact across the world. Other accomplishments: * The SIGCSE by-laws were changed to officially re-establish the immediate past-chair as a member of the Executive Board. * Membership benefits were changed to provide members with a single CD each year that contains all conference proceedings, the SIGCSE Bulletin, and the ITiCSE conference working group reports. * SIGCSE completed the 2011 fiscal year with a healthy surplus. SIGCSE is active in many areas and innovative programs, including: * endorsement of the Computing Principles project, which involves development of a new course to broaden participation in computing and computer science. * partnership with other disciplinary societies in Project Kaleidoscope's (PKAL) Mobilizing STEM Education for a Sustainable Future. * participation in curriculum revision efforts in the areas of Software Engineering and Computer Engineering * support of various special projects, including the "Taulbee for the Rest of US" (TauRUS) project to survey U.S. institutions offering undergraduate degrees in Computer Science to collect information on degrees, students and faculty * funding of speakers from SIGCSE conferences to present at several in-cooperation conferences through our speakers fund Key issues that the membership of that SIG will have to deal with in the next 2-3 years: * An important issue will be dealing with increased international expansion of ACM. SIGCSE already has an international presence with a significant international membership. We sponsor an annual conference held outside the U.S. (ITiCSE) and another workshop that rotates through being held in the U.S. Europe and Australasia. What we currently do not have is any international representation on the SIGCSE Board. We have an Australasian "chapter" (which seems like an odd name for such a large number of members and geographic space), and are discussing European, Indian, Chinese and South American expansion (more "chapters"?). Managing this growth and providing an equitable voice for these regions will be a key issue for SIGCSE. * SIGCSE will continue to participate in ongoing ACM education projects such as curriculum revisions * We will continue to collaborate with CSTA on K-12 issues. SIGDA FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 - June 2011 Submitted by: Patrick Madden, Chair Awards Given Out: SIGDA Distinguished Service Awards Prof. Qinru Qiu, service to SIGDA through the SIGDA E-Newsletter Prof. Martin Wong, service to SIGDA through the Outstanding New Faculty Award Committee Dr. Peter Feldmann, service through the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award committee Prof. Radu Marculescu, service through a number of programs, including the Outstanding New Faculty and Outstanding PhD Award Committees Prof. Qing Wu, for service through the SIGDA E-Newsletter and YSSP Program at DAC ACM Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in EDA to Nishant Patil SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award to Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar from Rice University ACM/IEEE A. R. Newton Award to Jason Cong/UCLA and Eugene Ding/Xilinx Pioneering Achievement Award to Scott Kirkpatrick SIGDA Technical Leadership Award Natarajan Viswanathan, IBM Frank Liu, IBM Raju Balasuramanian Zhuo Li, IBM All recipients were heavily involved in benchmarking efforts.
Each of our major conferences and symposia have had best paper awards. The major award for a related transaction is: TODAES Best Paper Award to Meikang Qiu and Edwin H.-M. Sha, for the paper "Cost minimization while satisfying hard/soft timing constraints for heterogeneous embedded systems"
University Booth: SIGDA sponsors a booth on the exhibit floor of the Design Automation Conference (DAC, the major conference in the area, with a total attendance of around 5000 people). Students from a wide range of universities have their travel expenses at least partially supported, and present their research projects along side industry vendors. Use of video taped demonstrations (for display on the web) was expanded; selection criteria became more strict. PhD Forum: Also at DAC are presentations from a carefully selected set of PhD dissertations. 27 students were supported to present at DAC, and were featured during the annual member meeting. Student Research Competition: SIGDA participated in the ACM SRC again. Two winners at the conference level (which took place at DAC) were in the top three at the SRC finals. SIGDA CADathlon: At the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), student teams compete in a set of design automation related programming problems. The contest is modeled after the ICPC, and attracts around twenty teams.
Design Automation Summer School. Design automation is something of a niche field, and only a handful of universities have departments large enough to cover the full range of design automation topics. The objective is to broaden the education opportunities, such that we can keep more students in the field. DASS is held in alternating years. This year’s speakers were: Srinivas Katkoori (U South Florida) Gi-Joon Nam (IBM) Chris Myers (U. Utah) Natasa Miskov-Zivanov (U. Pittsburgh) Jennifer Dworak (SMU) Mondira Pant (Intel) Philip Brisk (UC Riverside) Peter Feldmann (IBM) SIGDA has organized a number of technical committees (comprised of a chair, vice chair, and members), to help the SIG focus on more narrow research fields, while still allowing a good connection to the board. Some TCs are still struggling, and have not been as productive as we might hope.
SIGDA continues to be under financial pressure. The major conference, DAC, has shifted from an event that brought in large surpluses (in the range of $200,000 or more), to one where we expect a loss (in the range of $25,000). For this past DAC, there was a modest surplus ($100k over allocation); given the size of DAC, we have higher expectations. There has been significant concern over how DAC handles its finances and budgeting. Contracts for DAC management and exhibits services were considered this year; SIGDA has been dissatisfied with the current vendor, and the staff at ACM share our concerns. Considerable effort was put into obtaining good bids from alternate vendors, and the ACM staff should be commended for their work. Alternate vendors produced outstanding bids, and had the full support of SIGDA. The DAC executive committee voted in favor of switching exhibits management to a new vendor. Switching vendors would have saved DAC between $100k and $300k per year, and would have brought in vendors who have provided excellent service to other ACM conferences. Unfortunately, IEEE and EDAC, the other two sponsors of DAC, refused to support the use of the alternate vendors. This created an impasse; the DAC executive committee was asked to vote again, and shifted their support as a means to end the impasse. The SIGDA board feels that this was a costly mistake, and not in the best interests of SIGDA members, ACM members, and the DAC community as a whole. SIGDA has shifted the web site to be based on Drupal; the transition has gone smoothly. In the Fall of 2010, the SIGDA Treasurer, Prof. Tony Givargis, asked to step down from the board for personal reasons. He was replaced by Prof. Srinivas Katkoori, who had been active in a number of SIGDA events. In July 2011 (after the end of the financial year), the SIGDA board and a number of volunteers met in Washington DC – this was a board meeting, coupled with a meeting with NSF directors. We believe we have communicated the concerns of design automation researchers, and have opened a dialog which will allow SIGDA members to work more effectively with NSF. Yüklə 0,99 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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