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SIGITE FY’11 Annual Report

July 2010 – June 2011

Submitted by: Mark Stockman, Chair

2010-2011 was another successful year for ACM-SIGITE. The SIG continued its tradition of fulfilling conferences and entered into several initiatives to serve its membership.

SIGITE 2010 Conference on IT Education

Central Michigan University hosted the 2010 annual conference in Midland, MI. The conference again generated revenue for the SIG and saw the number of attendees reach similar levels of past conferences, though paper submissions were down. Procedures put in place in 2010 by the SIGITE Executive Committee regarding reviews raised the overall quality of papers to what we had seen in years past. With this increased quality, SIGITE also resumed its Best Paper Award for the conference, presenting it to Randy Connolly for his work, 'Small service is true service while it lasts: integrating web services into IT education.'

The addition of travel grants to students attracted graduate student attendance and submission of research to the conference. Nine students had their papers accepted and were given financial support to travel to Midland to present their work. Their inclusion provided some great fresh ideas for the conference attendees. The Executive Committee has decided to continue this practice of providing travel grants for up to ten students who have their papers accepted for publication in the conference proceedings.

The final day of the conference consisted of some great discussion among the membership on the direction of the society and how to make SIGITE a more attractive venue for publication of IT research.

IT Research Conference

This discussion has led to a new initiative that the SIGITE Executive Committee has decided to implement, the addition of a new conference specifically dealing with traditional research (and so named) as opposed to the pedagogical research we have seen submitted most often in the past. The thought is that the name of the annual SIGITE conference (Conference on IT Education) dissuades those academics doing more traditional research from submitting their work. This new conference/symposium will be co-located with the annual SIGITE conference starting next year in Calgary. Long-time SIGITE member and volunteer Jeff Brewer from Purdue University has agreed to spearhead this initial offering. Jeff and his team of other SIGITE volunteers will have something ready to announce to those attending the SIGITE 2011 conference at West Point, NY in October of this year.

Two Year IT Curriculum

Next, a group of dedicated SIGITE members have spent the past few years crafting a draft of a model curriculum for two-year programs. A significant percentage of the SIGITE membership come from such two year IT programs, so the SIG has put effort into meeting the needs of this group. This first draft has been completed and is being prepared to present to the SIGITE membership for comment. A next step will be to present this document to the ACM Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges (CCECC) as the start to the discussion on an official ACM two year IT curriculum.

Communication/Social Media Initiatives

In an effort to better communicate with its members and reach out to prospective new members, SIGITE marched forward on an initiative this year to revamp its website and jump into the world of social media. After several failed/mediocre attempts at creating a website in-house or using students, the Executive Committee decided SIGITE would be best served by hiring an outside Web Developer for this project. In February of 2011, the new SIGITE website was unveiled (http://sigite.org). It satisfied the Executive Committee’s requirements of a pleasing, maneuverable site that was easy to maintain. The maintenance of the site is quite easy using the Wordpress content management system.

Integrated in the website are the SIG’s entry into social media; Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and a blog. These have had varying degrees of success but the blog in particular has been a great venue to quickly communicate with members about happenings in the computing education realm and the upcoming conference.

SRII Partnership

In early 2011, Mark Stockman (Chair) was approached by the president of an emerging professional society, Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII), to discuss linkages between our organizations. Discussions showed there were several areas in which the two societies could work together for mutual benefit. SRII is a group, primarily made up of high ranking IT industry professionals, dedicated to the investigation of integrating IT solutions into the service industries. A few areas they are interested in is IT curriculum and research, both of which overlap with the SIGITE community. The discussion of these issues continued with Mark Stockman being invited to participate on a panel at the SRII conference addressing IT Curriculums and Research. SIGITE looks forward to pursuing this relationship linking its primarily academic membership to the industry leaning SRII community towards the advancement of IT curriculum and research.

SIGITE 2011 Conference on IT Education

Finally, work is well underway in the planning of the SIGITE 2011 conference to be held in West Point, NY hosted by the US Military Academy. Thanks to new efforts to publicize the call for participation and the new website, paper submissions are up 80% this year after last years disappointing submission level. To build continuity and assure all jobs are being performed for the conference, the SIGITE Executive Committee has implemented a policy whereby each Conference Chair will be asked in preceding conferences to serve as the Sponsorship Chair and Program Chair. This has started in the SIGITE 2011 conference; the 2012 Conference Chair Randy Connolly is currently serving as Program Chair and Dave Armitage is currently serving as Sponsorship Chair.

SIGKDD FY’11 Annual Report

July 2010-June 2011

Submitted by: Usama M. Fayyad, SIGKDD Chair
1. Annual Awards

ACM SIGKDD 2010 Innovation Award to Prof. Christos Faloutsos - Jun 22, 2010.Citation: for contributions to graph and multimedia mining, fractals, self-similarity and power laws; indexing for multimedia and bioinformatics data, and data base performance evaluation.

ACM SIGKDD 2010 Service Award to Prof. Osmar R. Zaiane - Jun 22, 2010. Citation: for his significant service and contributions to the global KDD community, especially as the Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations, the flagship newsletter of SIGKDD (Associate Editor from 2004 to 2007).
1.2 SIGKDD Distinguished Dissertation Award

The 2010 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation award has attracted a high number of excellent applicants. The winner was

Dr. Mohammad Al Hasan  was awarded the 2010 SIGKDD Distinguished Dissertation Award for his thesis work titled:  Mining Interesting Subgraphs by Output Space Sampling  >>
(advisor: Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 

Dr. Mohammad Al Hasan's dissertation presents an innovative and general approach to frequent pattern mining with a potential to dramatically improve the performance of currently available tools. His dissertation was selected from among a number of very strong candidates and receiving this award serves as a clear recognition of its contributions to the KDD community. 



Runner-up: 
Dr. Jilles Vreeken >> for Making Pattern Mining Useful >>
(advisor: Arno Siebes, Utrecht University).
Certificates of Recognition: 

Dr. Qiaozhu Mei for “Contextual Text Mining”. 


(advisor: Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

Dr. Pauli Miettinen for “Matrix Decomposition Methods for Data Mining: Computational Complexity and Algorithms”. 


(advisor: Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki)
All annual awards were presented at KDD-2010 Conference in Washington, D.C. as part of the opening ceremony to the conference.

The 2011 Dissertation Awards will be announced in July 2011 and will be awarded at the SIKDD-2011 conference in San Diego, CA on August 21, 2011.


2. Significant Publications

The KDD 2010 annual conference maintained SIGKDD position as the leading conference on data mining and knowledge discovery, with a record 679 submissions and 121 accepted papers in total (17.8% acceptance rate) overall. As has been in the past, the conference consisted of two major tracks:



  1. The Research Track: attracting 578 research submissions with 101 papers accepted for presentation (17.4% acceptance rate) based on the review of a Program Committee consisting of 45 senior program committee members over 240 regular PC members.

  2. The Industrial/Government Applications Track: with 101 submissions and 20 accepted papers for presentation and publication.

Among the topics presented at KDD-2010 were Social networks, Recommender systems, Clustering, Temporal & Streams Mining, Anomaly detection, Graph mining, Text mining, Search and advertising, Security and Privacy, Enterprise & Finance applications, Telecom applications, and Information Extraction & Text Mining. This in addition to traditional data mining classification, clustering, research and applications papers.

Of note this year was the high level of attendance at the I/G Applications track with all sessions filled or over-subscribed. This has led us to confirm our plans for 2011 in creating a new format to be called the “Industry Applications Experience” track which will consist primarily of invited speakers and heavily edited presentations by the program committee – we believe some of the best applications in our field are deployed by teams who do not have the time or permissions to write full papers that are evaluated based on classical research criteria.


2.1 KDD-2010 Conference Dates and Attendance

KDD 2010 was held in Washington, D.C. stating Sunday July 25th to Wed July 28th, 2010. Saturday July 27th was provided as an extra day for extended workshops. Conference Workshops took place on July 24-25, and Tutorial on July 25th. The opening session with awards ceremony was held on July 25th evening as part of the plenary opening session of the formal conference.



2010 SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award

The award recognizes papers presented at the annual SIGKDD conference that advance the fundamental understanding of the field of knowledge discovery in data and data mining. For more information please refer to the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award page. Awards were sponsored by HP.



Best Research Paper: innovative contribution

Connecting the Dots Between News Articles
Dafna Shahaf and Carlos Guestrin

Best Research Paper: technical contribution

Large Linear Classification When Data Cannot Fit In Memory
Hsiang-Fu Yu, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang, and Chih-Jen Lin

Recognized Finalists

Discriminative Topic Modeling based on Manifold Learning
Seungil Huh, and Stephen E. Fienberg

Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models
Tomoharu Iwata, Takeshi Yamada, Yasushi Sakurai, and Naonori Ueda

Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence
Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Jure Leskovec, and Andreas Krause

A Scalable Two-Stage Approach for a Class of Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
Liang Sun, Betul Ceran, and Jieping Ye

Learning Incoherent Sparse and Low-Rank Patterns from Multiple Tasks
Jianhui Chen, Ji Liu, and Jieping Ye

KDD-2010 Conference continued to have strong participation of the industrial researchers, as evidenced by the record 101 papers submitted to the industrial track (only 20 accepted). This year we enhanced the criteria for acceptance and raised the bar on what we considered a real application that is deployed and used in the field. This resulted in diminished acceptances but a much higher quality of content.



2010 SIGKDD Best Industry/Government Track Paper Award

The award recognizes papers presented at the annual SIGKDD conference that advance the fundamental understanding of the field of knowledge discovery in data and data mining. This year's Best Industry/Government Track Paper Award is sponsored by Open Data Group. For more information please refer to the SIGKDD Best Industry/Government Track Paper page.



Best Industry/Government Track Paper

Optimizing Debt Collections Using Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K Reddy, David L Jensen, Vince P Thomas, James J Bennett, Gary F Anderson, Brent R Cooley, Melissa Kowalczyk, Mark Domick, Timothy Gardinier

Honorable Mention of Best Industry/Government Track Paper

Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure: More, Better, Faster Experimentation
Diane Tang, Ashish Agarwal, Deirdre O'Brien, Mike Meye
2.2 Conference attendance and Budget Management

The KDD-2010 conference continued a strong tradition of high attendance and continued healthy financial management and performance. The conference attracted a total of 877 registrants. This is an all-time high, with the exception of KDD-2000 held just prior to the bursting of the Internet Bubble. We continue to thrive and draw interest through years of crisis and low travel budgets.



Revenue Summary:

  • Final registrations: 877 Registrants

  • Revenue from Registrants: $500,795

  • Revenue from Sponsorship: $83,800

Revenue from Exhibitors: $12,500 (5 exhibitors apart from Sponsors)
2.3 Workshops and Tutorials

In addition, KDD 2010 hosted 14 Workshops (as opposed to 11 in 2009) and 12 Tutorials (as opposed to 7 in 2009). Workhops were held Sat-Sun August



W1

Mining and Learning with Graphs Workshop 2010 (MLG-2010)

Sat-Sun

W2

Large-scale Data Mining: Theory and Applications (LDMTA-2010)

Sun-AllD

W3

Useful Patterns (UP)

Sun-AllD

W4

Social Media Analytics (SOMA 2010)

Sun-AllD

W5

KDD Cup 2010: Improving Cognitive Models with Educational Data Mining (KDD Cup 2010)

Sun-Morn

W6

9th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD10)

Sun-Morn

W7

Tenth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining(MDMKDD 2010)

Sun-Morn

W8

The Fourth International Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Online Advertising (ADKDD'10)

Sun-Morn

W9

Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP 2010)

Sun-Morn

W10

CM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-KDD)

Sun-AftN

W11

The 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (SensorKDD)

Sun-AftN

W12

The 4th SNA-KDD Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNAKDD 2010)

Sun-AftN

W13

Novel Data Stream Pattern Mining Techniques (StreamKDD)

Sun-AftN

W14

Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings (MultiClust)

Sun-AftN

The tutorials were held during the day Sunday July 25th, 2010 and consisted of the following tutorials:


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Tutorial Title

Schedule

T1

Large-scale Data Mining: MapReduce and Beyond

Sun-Morn

T2

New Developments in the Theory of Clustering

Sun-Morn

T3

Temporal Pattern Mining

Sun-Morn

T4

Learning through Exploration

Sun-Morn

T5

Geometric Tools for Graph Mining of Large Social and Information Networks

Sun-Morn

T8

Mining Web Search and Browse Logs

Sun-Morn

T6

Privacy-aware Data Mining in Information Networks

Sun-AftN

T7

Introduction to Graphical Models for Data Mining

Sun-AftN

T9

Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks

Sun-AftN

T10

Outlier Detection Techniques

Sun-AftN

T11

Recommender Problems for Web Applications

Sun-AftN

T12

Indexing and Mining Time Sequences

Sun-AftN


2.3 SIGKDD Video Releases: the KDD-2010 conference program videos

We released the full video program of KDD-2010, all recorded material is published in video format on: http://videolectures.net/kdd2010_washington/


2.4 SIGKDD Explorations

We announced a new Editorial team for SIGKDD Explorations at KDD-2010. The new Editor-n-Chief as of July 2010 will be: Bart Goethals of University of Antwerp and the Associate Editors will be: Charu Aggarwal of IBM TJ Watson Research Center and Srinivasan Parthasarathy of The Ohio State University.

SIGKDD Explorations published two issues in the last fiscal year:

July 2010, Volume 12, issue 1 and was edited by prior E-i-C: Osmar Zaiane of University of Alberta.

December 2010, Volume 12, Issue 2: this issue included a special issue focusing on: Special Issue: Unexpected Results in Data Mining. This issue had two guest editors: Christophe Giraud-Carrier of Brigham Young University and Margaret H. Dunham of Southern Methodist University.
3. Significant programs that provided a springboard for further technical efforts

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (TKDD) launched in 2007, http://tkdd.cs.uiuc.edu/, with Jiawei Han as editor in Chief, has continued as one of the two major journals in our field. TKDD published 5 issues in 2010 and 1 issues in 2011 so far.

The original major journal in our field, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, currently with Geoff Webb as Editor-in-Chief continues to be a top-cited journal internationally. This journal was launched in 1996 with Usama Fayyad as founding Editor-in-Chief.
4. A very brief summary for key issues that the SIGKDD membership will have to deal with in the next 2-3 years.

Some of the key issues for SIGKDD and SIGKDD members:



  • Maintaining effective SIGKDD operation after transfer to new SIGKDD leadership.

  • Difficulty in getting industry participation in KDD conference which we are addressing with the new Industry Applications Experience track launched in KDD-2011

  • Growing rift in the relevance of problems that academia can work on due to the difficulty of getting access to large real-world data, with some of the most important data and research problems locked inside Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other web “giants”. We are currently working on a solution to provide big compute platform for academic research

  • Getting new membership and especially student members

  • Negative perception of “data mining” in the US (and sometimes reality) that data mining is a technology which invades privacy (e.g. Recent NH and VT laws prohibiting “prescription data mining”)

  • Addressing issues of data privacy and the role of data mining positive or negative in that arena

  • Competitive pressure from a new generation of APPLIED conferences that are drawing attention and causing some attention pressure. KDD-2010 is responding by creating an additional applied invited track on predictive analytics as well as new formats for fireside chat on important topic and special applied panels.

  • Creating more forums for participation on-line as well as a professionally produced magazine for the field if the economics justify it.

  • Creating a new generation, web 2.0 web presence for SIGKDD and KDD conferences. We started this effort in 2011 and hope to announce results at KDD-2011.



5. Financial Snapshot

SIGKDD continues to have a healthy financial balance sheet and surplus cash balance. Operations of the SIGKDD generated over USD $196,000 in surplus, further enhancing our cash balance and re-enforcing our financial feasibility as a SIG.

We plan to increase investment activities in the next fiscal year to institute some value added programs that increase the value of SIGKDD to members as well as enhance the field as a whole. We are also considering hiring dedicated staff to address issues that need more systematic attention, such as web site maintenance and PR and promotions, as well as marketing activities related to the field.

SIGMETRICS FY’11 Annual Report

July 2010 - June 2011

Submitted by: Carey Williamson, Chair

ACM SIGMETRICS had another strong and active year, culminating in the SIGMETRICS 2011 conference at ACM FCRC 2011 in San Jose. In addition to a strong technical program at the conference, we presented our annual SIG awards, and held our Executive Committee meeting to discuss the state of the SIG as we hand over to a new slate of SIG officers this summer.


Awards

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Dr. Onno J. Boxma was selected as the recipient of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award.


Dr. Boxma holds the chair of Stochastic Operations Research in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Eindhoven University of Technology.

His main research interests are in queueing theory and its applications to the performance analysis of computer-communication and production systems. He has published about 180 refereed papers on these subjects, and he is co-author/co-editor of five books on queueing theory and performance evaluation.


Dr. Boxma received his award at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 conference in San Jose, as part of ACM FCRC 2011. The citation for his award was: "For outstanding contributions to queueing theory and exceptional leadership in the performance evaluation community".

The 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award was presented to Dr. Adam Wierman.


Dr. Wierman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. His research interests focus on resource allocation and scheduling decisions in computer systems and services. His PhD work received the CMU School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the INFORMS Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has multiple paper awards to his credit, including the 2003 ACM SIGMETRICS Best Student Paper Award, the 2010 IFIP Performance Best Paper Award, and the 2011 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award. He has also received multiple teaching awards at CMU and at CalTech.
Dr. Wierman received his Rising Star award at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 conference in San Jose. The citation for his award was: "For fundamental insights into scheduling and fairness in modern computing systems".
Our SIG presented its next "Test of Time" award at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 conference as well. This award honours SIGMETRICS work published 10-12 years ago that still has significant impact today.
There was a tie this year for the award. The co-winners were:
"A Case for End System Multicast" by Yang-hua Chu, Sanjay Rao, and Hui Zhang (ACM SIGMETRICS 2000). This paper demonstrated that multicast functionality could be provided at end systems using an overlay network, with only modest performance penalties.
"Stable Internet Routing without Global Coordination", by Lixin Gao and Jennifer Rexford (ACM SIGMETRICS 2000). This paper provided a formal analysis of BGP routing policies, and showed how to ensure convergence to stable Internet routes without requiring routers to divulge their BGP configurations.
Conference Activities

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The annual ACM SIGMETRICS conference is the premier forum for performance evaluation research, which spans a wide range of application domains in computer and communication systems.
The 2011 conference took place in San Jose as part of ACM FCRC 2011. Arif Merchant (Google) was the General Chair, with Kim Keeton (HP Labs) and Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University) as Program Chairs.
Because it was an FCRC year, organizing the conference was slightly easier than usual, since dates, hotel contracts, registration, and catering arrangements were handled by ACM HQ. However, there is still a lot of communication/coordination required with ACM, and several items are beyond the control of the General Chair (e.g., dates, scheduling, room assignment, catering prices).
The registered attendance for our event this year was 120, which was lower than expected, but still above the budgeted break-even point of 100. A particular highlight this year was on the sponsorship front, with the General Chair raising a total of $38K from sponsors, which really helped with the bottom line for the conference. We expect to finish with a small surplus of $5-8K from this year's event.
The general feedback on the conference was very positive. The main conference was 2.5 days, from Thursday to Saturday. Two workshops were offered prior to the conference, namely MAMA

(MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis), and Green Metrics. Tutorials were also offered prior to the conference, but the attendance for these was disappointing.


The technical program was very strong, as usual. The 57-member PC had 21 first-timers who brought new faces, topic areas, and energy to the process. HotCRP was used for paper submission and review.

There was a two-phase review process, with all papers getting 3 reviews initially, and then the most relevant papers getting an extra review prior to the PC meeting, which was held at Columbia

University in late January. Ultimately, there were 26 papers accepted from 177 actual submissions (15%), and 20 posters as well. The program had a good mix of theory, systems, and networking topic areas.
Two papers received awards at the conference:
Best Paper

"Topology Discovery of Sparse Random Graphs with Few Participants"

Animashree Anandkumar (University of California at Irvine), Avinatan Hassidim (Google), Jonathan Kelner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award

"Network Architecture for Joint Failure Recovery and Traffic Engineering"

Martin Suchara (Princeton University), Dahai Xu (AT&T Labs-Research), Robert Doverspike (AT&T Labs-Research), David Johnson (AT&T Labs-Research), Jennifer Rexford (Princeton University)
The SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 conference will take place at Imperial College in London, UK on June 4-8, 2012. The General Chair is Peter Harrison (Imperial College), and the Program Chairs are Martin Arlitt (HP Labs) and Guiliano Casale (Imperial College). Early indications are that we will have a well-attended and well-organized conference, including a cruise on the Thames.
The dates, location, and organizers for SIGMETRICS 2013 are yet to be determined, by the new SIG Executive.
New Initiatives

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An ongoing initiative for our SIG is a proposed new journal, tentatively called ACM Transactions on Performance Evaluation (ToPE). We are currently updating our proposal based on feedback received from the ACM Publications Board, and have constituted a tentative editorial board and two Co-EiCs (Editor in Chief) for the journal. We hope to have the journal approved for launch later this year, perhaps in time for the SIG's 40th birthday in November 2011.

Issues and Challenges

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An ongoing challenge for our SIG is the slowly declining membership, which has been a trend for many SIGs since the introduction of the ACM Digital Library. We hope that the new journal, our awards program, and our increased visibility from co-sponsored and "in cooperation" events will help to promote the value of SIGMETRICS membership, and allow us to grow our membership base in the years ahead.
Leadership development is also a potential concern, as there seems to be a "changing of the guard" in the age demographic of SIGMETRICS. Finding high-quality people for technical roles such as PC Chair is not a problem, but we are exhausting our list of more experienced leaders for General Chair and SIG leadership roles. The recent trend of pressing Executive members into service as General Chairs for our conference is not really sustainable. More effort is needed to identify and nurture our future SIG leaders.

SIGMICRO FY'11 ANNUAL REPORT

July 2010- June 2011

Submitted by: Erik Altman, Chair
The following are highlights of SIGMICRO's activities during fiscal year 2011.

SIGMICRO has worked to ensure the success of our flagship MICRO conference. MICRO celebrated its 43rd anniversary last year in Atlanta on and near the lovely Georgia Tech campus, and with an excellent technical program, outing, and high attendance. SIGMICRO has also helped start and support several other major conferences since 2001: CASES, CGO, and Computing Frontiers. All are doing well as reported below. As also reported below, we have a strong program to encourage attendance at our conferences by students and those facing financial hardship, with numerous travel grants provided to help defray cost of attendance, in addition to heavily discounted student registration rates.

Our ambitious history project has completed its first phase under the leadership of Yan Solihin, who with the help of historian Paul Edwards of the University of Michigan compiled excellent interviews with Bob Colwell and Edward Davidson. These interviews – both transcripts and oral recordings – are available on the SIGMICRO Newsletter site: http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/sigmicro-oral-history-transcripts. SIGMICRO was active in organizing and in trying to fund the "Bob Rau" award to recognize excellence in microarchitecture and closely related fields. However, it was ultimately decided that the award did not meet the criteria for an ACM-wide award (especially uniqueness and size of monetary award). Thus the Rau Award will be sponsored only by IEEE.

On a happier note, SIGMICRO for the first time, awarded plaques to the two 2011 inductees to the Micro Hall of Fame (http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/micro-hof.txt/view), Dave Albonesi and Mahmut Kandemir, with Dave Albonesi leading an effort to provide plaques to previous 31 members already in the Micro Hall of Fame (for authoring 8 or more papers in the Micro conference).

SIGMICRO CONFERENCE Activities

MICRO-43: December 4 – 8, 2010

http://www.microarch.org/micro43

SIGMICRO's flagship conference was successful with turnout of 313 people. In addition the conference had 248 submissions – 39 more than the already high 209 submissions received in 2009 and more than double the number received in 1997. Submissions came from more than 15 countries with China and Spain following the US in number of submissions. Of the 248 submissions, 45 were accepted, a relatively large absolute count for Micro, but only an 18% accept rate. There were also 8 workshops and 3 tutorials. Micro provided $10,000 for student travel grants.

In addition to the outstanding submission count, Micro enjoyed excellent technical talks, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials, and very effective organization by co-chairs Tom Conte and Sudha Yalmanchili. As testament to this excellence, SIGMICRO polled attendees using surveymonkey.com, with large majorities in all categories ranking the conference as "Excellent" or "Good".

Alas, the conference began on a sad note with a commemoration by Kemal Ebcioglu of Maurice Wilkes, pioneer in the field who died on November 29, 2010, only days before Micro began.



Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Outing: Atlanta Aquarium, with its huge tank, many football fields in area and including large sharks and whales.

General Co-Chairs: Sudhakar Yalmanchili and Tom Conte (Georgia Tech)

Program Chair: Sanjay Patel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keynotes: Krisztian Flautner, VP of Research and Development, ARM Gary Lauterbach, CTO and Co-Founder, SeaMicro

3 Tutorials:

  • ILDJIT: A Compilation Framework for Program Analysis, Optimization and Microarchitectural Design, Organizers: Simone Campanoni, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Glenn Holloway, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks (Harvard)




  • PCM: Phase Change Memories: A Systems Perspective, Organizers: Moinuddin Qureshi (IBM Research), Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Univ. of Virginia), and Bipin Rajendran (IBM Research)




  • GPU-PAT: Performance Analysis and Tuning for GPUs, Organizers: Hyesoon Kim and Richard Vuduc (Georgia Tech)



8 Workshops:

  • NoCArc: Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures

  • FPHM: the 3rd Workshop on Functionality of Hardware Performance Monitors

  • UCAS: the 6th Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems

  • MASVDC: Workshop on Microarchitectural Support for Virtualization, Data Center Computing and Clouds

  • CARL: the 1st Workshop on the Intersections of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Logic

  • WINDS: Workshop on the Interaction between Nanophotonic Devices and Systems

  • WRA: Workshop on Resilient Architectures

  • WTAI: Invited Workshop on Technology-Architecture Interaction: Emerging Technologies and their Impact on Computer Architecture


Best Student Paper Award:

Cancelled: After spirited discussion at SIGMICRO Business meeting, inspired by previous survey results and current student opinion.

Student travel: $10,000 donated by SIGMICRO.

CGO 2010: April 2 – 6, 2011

http://www.cgo.org/cgo2011
Also Co-Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN.

CGO [Code Generation and Optimization] for the first time in its 8 years ventured outside North America, with the conference set in Chamonix, France, in the heart of the Alps. Submissions increased 50% from 2010 to a record 105 papers, of which 28 were accepted (26.7%), actually one fewer papers than 2010. In addition, CGO 2011 featured two keynotes, a welcome reception / student poster session, and numerous workshops and tutorials. Indeed, there were 7 workshops and 8 tutorials, compared to 4 workshops and only 4 tutorials the previous year.
Location: Centre des Congrès - Le Majestic, Chamonix, France
General Chairs: Olivier Temam, INRIA

Program Chairs: Carol Eidt (Microsoft),

Michael O’Boyle (University of Edinburgh)



Keynotes: Erik Altman (IBM Research)

Xavier Leroy (INRIA)


8 Tutorials:

  • [ArBB] Array Building Blocks: A Dynamic Compiler for Data-parallel Heterogeneous Systems

  • [DyRIO] Building Dynamic Instrumentation Tools with DynamoRIO

  • [GCC] Essential Abstractions in GCC

  • [Parallel] GPU Programming Models, Optimizations and Tuning

  • [Pin!] Detailed Pin!

  • [PIPS] PIPS: An Interprocedural Extensible Source-to-Source Compiler Infrastructure for Code/Application Transformations and Instrumentations

  • [AlphaZ] AlphaZ and the Polyhedral Equational Model

  • [LoopVect] Program Optimization through Loop Vectorization


7 Workshops:

  • WIR-1: Workshop on Intermediate Representations

  • ACCA-1: Analyse to Compile, Compile to Analyse

  • IMPACT-1: First International workshop on Polyhedral Compilation Techniques

  • SMART-5: Workshop on Statistical and Machine learning approaches to ARchitecture and compilaTion

  • GROW-3: Workshop on GCC Research Opportunities

  • WISH-3: Workshop on Infrastructures for Software/Hardware co-design

  • ODES-9: Workshop on Optimizations for DSP and Embedded Systems


Best Paper Award:

Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Millions of Lines of Code,” by Ben Hardekopf and Calvin Lin


Best Student Presentation Award:

Highly Scalable Distributed Dataflow Analysis,” by Joseph L. Greathouse


Best Poster Award:

VMAD: a Virtual Machine for Advanced Dynamic Analysis of Programs,” by Alexandra Jimborean



CASES 2010: October 24 – 29, 2010

http://www.public.asu.edu/~ashriva6/esweek2010/cases2010
Also in cooperation with ACM SIGBED

CASES [Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems] joined two other embedded systems conferences in 2006 to create a larger "ESWeek" grouping and promote cross-fertilization of efforts in the embedded area. The combination of conferences was a success, and ESWeek was has been repeated ever since, with the 2010 version in Scottsdale, Arizona. In all, 58 submissions were received, of which 26 were accepted. There were also 8 workshops, an increase of one over 2009.

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

One of 3 Conferences in Embedded Systems Week: http://www.esweek.org



  • CASES

  • CODES+ISSS (Co-sponsored by ACM SIGDA and SIGBED)

  • EMSOFT (Sponsored by ACM SIGBED)


General Co-Chairs: Donatella Sciuto and Samarjit Chakraborty

Program Chairs: Vinod Kathail and Reid Tatge

Program Vice-Chair: Rajeev Barua
Keynotes:

Vida Ilderem

Vice President, Intel Labs, Director, Integrated Platform Research Lab
John Hennessy

President, Stanford University


Thomas A. Henzinger,

IST Austria


Computing Frontiers 2010: May 3 – 5, 2011

http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2011
After a year hiatus in Bertinoro, Italy, Computing Frontiers returned to its most frequent location, the island of Ischia, Italy, and continued to attract high quality papers on futuristic ideas on the frontier of computing, with a program consisting of 22 full papers and 20 posters. Reflecting the high quality of Computing Frontiers, selected papers have been invited for an extended special issue of the Springer International Journal of Parallel Programming.

Location:

Ischia, Italy


General Chair:

Calin Cascaval, Qualcomm


Program Co-Chairs:

Victor Prasanna, University of Southern California

Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus
Keynotes:

Rodolphe Héliot, CEA-LETI, France



Katherine Yelick, University of California at Berkeley
Best Paper Awards:

  • Multi- and Many-Core Data Mining with Adaptive Sparse Grids,” by A. Heinecke and D. Pflüger

  • Efficient Stack Distance Computation for Priority Replacement Policies,” by G. Bilardi, K. Ekanadham, and P. Pattnaik


FUTURE PLANS
We are working to improve the value of SIGMICRO to its members:

  • Begun in 2008, SIGMICRO has been expanding the Micro Hall of Fame: http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/micro-hof.txt/view. The Micro Hall recognizes those authors with 8 or more papers since the conference inception in 1967. For the first time in 2010, SIGMICRO presented plaques at the conference to recipients. The Hall of Fame currently has 33 members, with two new members inducted in 2010: David Albonesi and Mahmut Kandemir. As noted in the introduction, David Albonesi is leading an effort to provide plaques to the previous 31 recipients. Unfortunately, we currently lack good records for Micro-1 through Micro-4, and hope this omission is soon remedied.

  • We have completed the first round of the SIGMICRO Oral History Project under the auspices of the larger ACM oral history project. Yan Solihin of North Carolina State led the effort, working with historian Paul Edwards of the University of Michigan. Prof Edwards compiled excellent interviews with Bob Colwell and Edward Davidson. These interviews – both transcripts and oral recordings – are available on the SIGMICRO Newsletter site: http://newsletter.sigmicro.org/sigmicro-oral-history-transcripts. They contain a vast array of information from the personal (Bob Colwell growing up as one of six children of a milkman and Ed Davidson’s fighting uncle to Intel’s concern in the 1990s about the imminent demise of the x86 architecture in the face of the RISC onslaught and Ed Davidson’s thoughts about advising graduate students.) Soon we hope to make the transcripts available in the ACM Digital Library as well, but wanted SIGMICRO to showcase them first.

  • As the Hall of Fame and Oral History project sites may suggest, the SIGMICRO Newsletter continues under the editorship of Russ Joseph, who has also been newly elected to the SIGMICRO Executive Committee.

  • We have considered other ways to add value, some of which may be taken up by the new leadership team (below):

    • Providing simplified mechanism for ACM and SIGMICRO membership when registering for our flagship MICRO Conference.

    • Encouraging qualified members of SIGMICRO to become Senior and Distinguished ACM Members.

    • Providing a discount on SIGMICRO membership for members of other SIGs. Joint membership helps encourage cross-pollination of ideas and areas, which often leads to productive results.

    • Minimizing conflicts between conferences dates.

    • Encouraging and developing SIGMICRO members to become ACM Distinguished Lecturers.

    • Reviving the effort to publish a few top SIGMICRO papers in CACM.


LEADERSHIP

The leadership of SIGMICRO remained stable in FY2011.


Chair:

Erik Altman (IBM)





Vice-Chair:

Lizy John (University of Texas, Austin)





Secretary-Treasurer:

Milos Prvulovic (Georgia Technological University)





Members-at-Large:

Jim Dehnert (Google)

David Kaeli (Northeastern University)

Sally McKee (Cornell University)


However, SIGMICRO welcomes the new blood, new ideas, and very capable leadership of a new set of leaders for FY2012:
Chair:

Pradip Bose (IBM)





Vice-Chair:

David Brooks (Harvard)





Secretary-Treasurer:

Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (IBM)





Members-at-Large:

Michael Gschwind (IBM)

Russ Joseph (Northwestern University)

SIGMIS FY’11Annual Report

July 2010- June 2011

Submitted by: Janice C. Sipior, Chair
Mission and Overview
SIGMIS is the Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems of the ACM. Members of SIGMIS are interested in information systems and technologies for management and the management of these systems and technologies. SIGMIS was founded in 1961 as the Special Interest Group on Business Data Processing and later was known as the Special Interest Group on Business Information Technology. SIGMIS publishes The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems (Data Base, for short) and holds the annual SIGMIS CPR conference dedicated to computer personnel research. SIGMIS also participates in the annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the annual International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) TC8 committee, as well as other conferences. SIGMIS promotes student achievement and partners with other organizations to provide services to members and to the profession.


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