acm’s annual report for FY14

DOI:10.1145/2691599 ACM Council President ACM’s FY14 Vinton G. Cerf Vice President Annual Report Alexander L. Wolf Secretary/Treasurer As I write this letter, ACM has just issued Vicki L. Hanson a landmark announcement revealing the Past President monetary level for the ACM A.M. Turing Alain Chesnais Award will be raised this year to $1 million, SIG Governing Board Chair Erik Altman with all funding provided by Google puter science and mathematics. I was Publications Board Inc. The news made the global rounds honored to be a participant in this Co-Chairs in record time, bringing worldwide inaugural event; I found it an inspi- Jack Davidson visibility to the award and the Associa- rational gathering of innovators and Joseph A. Konstan tion. Long recognized as the equiva- understudies who will be the next Members-at-Large lent to the Nobel Prize for award recipients. Eric Allman science, ACM’s now This year also marked the publica- Ricardo Baeza-Yates carries the financial clout to stand on tion of highly anticipated ACM-IEEE- Cherri Pancake the same playing field with the most CS collaboration Radia Perlman esteemed scientific and cultural prizes Curricula 2013 and the acclaimed Re- Mary Lou Soffa honoring game changers whose con- booting the Pathway to Success: Prepar- Eugene Spafford tributions have transformed the world. ing Students for Computer Workforce Salil Vadhan This really is an extraordinary time Needs in the United States, an exhaus- SGB Council to be part of the world’s largest educa- tive report from ACM’s Education Representatives tional and scientific society in comput- Policy Committee that focused on IT Brent Hailpern ing. Membership is at a record high for workforce needs at the U.S. state and Andrew L. Sears the 12th consecutive year, ACM contin- national levels as well as the educa- David A. Wood ues to expand its global reach thanks tional pathways to meet those needs. regional council chairs to our thriving hubs in Europe, India, As you read the following pages you and China, and ACM’s position at the will discover a year filled with ambi- ACM India forefront of computer science educa- tious initiatives and new services de- PJ Narayanan, President tion has never been more prominent signed to increase the professional ACM Europe than it is today. value of your ACM membership, wher- Fabrizio Gagliardi This year marked the stellar debut ever you may be in the world. Yet with ACM China of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, all these achievements, ACM remains a Jianguang Sun which brought together 200 students work in progress and there is still much Younghao Lin with 40 international recipients of work to do. Issues of open access and ACM-W the most prestigious awards in com- digital library sustainability remain Valerie Barr high priorities for ACM’s leadership. USACM Extending ACM’s global influence and Eugene Spafford visibility even further will always be of This really is an Education Board utmost importance. Andrew McGettrick extraordinary time The coming year will see new op- portunities and new challenges and Practitioners Board to be part of the Stephen R. Bourne ACM is ready to take on both with great world’s largest determination. As always, we will look educational and to our dedicated volunteers, members, ACM Headquarters and industry partnerships to help scientific society guide us. ACM’s future is a journey we Chief Executive Officer in computing. take together, and has been my great John R. White pleasure to serve as your president for Chief Operating Officer this part of the trip. Patricia M. Ryan

Vinton G. Cerf, acm president July 2012–June 2014

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ACM’s Annual Report for FY14 Highlights of ACM Activities: July 1, 2013–June 30, 2014

ACM, the Association for Computing creation of an umbrella Gold-OA ACM Education Machinery, is an international scientific journal. Moreover, the board helped ACM continues to lead the computer and educational organization dedicat- to found the Clearinghouse for the science education community through ed to advancing the arts, sciences, and Open Research of the U.S. (CHORUS), the work of the ACM Education Board, applications of information technology. a publishing industry effort to facili- the ACM Education Council, ACM tate compliance with U.S. open access SIGCSE, Computer Science Teachers Publications mandates. Association (CSTA), and ACM Educa- The cornerstone of ACM publications ACM Press Book Series, in partner- tion Policy Committee. is the ACM Digital Library (DL) serving ship with Morgan & Claypool publish- The CS2013 Final Report, a com- as the primary distribution mechanism ers, finished its first full year of opera- prehensive joint activity of ACM and for all the Association’s publications tion. Three titles were introduced in IEEE-CS, was published at year-end as well as host to scientific periodicals FY14, all available in the DL. 2013 to great acclaim. The report con- and a set of conference proceedings The Coalition to Diversify Comput- tains guidance for undergraduate CS from external organizations. The DL, ing presented its inaugural edition of programs, including a revised Body of now available at 2,650 institutions in Celebration of Latinas in Computing at Knowledge and over 80 course exem- 190 countries, boasts an estimated the Grace Hopper Celebration in early plars. five million users worldwide. An ad- FY14. This publication followed the The first Heidelberg Laureate Fo- ditional 31,000 individual subscribers CDC’s Celebration of Black Women in rum brought together 200 young re- in 196 countries have DL access. The Computing, which is now in its second searchers, 22 Turing laureates, and 11 result of this widespread availability edition. Fields/Abel laureates. The weeklong led to more than 20 million full-text The Computer Science Teachers event offered students a unique op- downloads in FY14. Association (CSTA) worked with Mi- portunity to share ideas with legends ACM is committed to increasing the crosoft to develop a set of curricular in the fields of computer science and scope of material available via the DL. resources. CS Principles: Computation mathematics. Last year, over 23,000 full-text articles in Action Curriculum was designed to ACM’s Education Board was were added, bringing total DL hold- engage a variety of students in socially charged with overseeing the launch ings to 425,000 articles. ACM’s Guide relevant, project-based learning. of the inaugural Learning@Scale con- to Computing Literature is also integrat- SIGLOG debuted its first newsletter ference in Atlanta last March. The ex- ed within the DL. More than 105,000 in FY14 and SIGMOBILE introduced tremely successful event marked the works were added to the bibliographic an epub format for making content first time a conference was spawned by database in FY14, bringing the total more easily accessible using popular a Board within ACM. Guide coverage to more than 2.3 mil- mobile devices. Indeed, MobiSys 2014 The ACM Education Policy Com- lion works. provided epub files for all accepted pa- mittee (EPC) released its much-antic- ACM is the publisher of 79 periodi- pers and made them freely accessible ipated report: Rebooting the Pathway cals, including 44 journals and transac- to all conference attendees. to Success: Preparing Students for Com- tions, 8 magazines, and 32 newsletters puter Workforce Needs in the United as of year-end FY14. During the year, States. This latest report calls on edu- ACM added 450 volumes of conference ACM’s partnering cation and business leaders and pub- and related workshop proceedings to lic policy officials nationwide to take its portfolio. The ACM International with Code.org immediate action aimed at filling the Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) represents a pipeline of qualified students pursu- added 94 new volumes, a significant in- ing computer science and other com- crease over FY13. significant puter-related degrees, and to prepare The ACM Publications Board con- investment in them for the 21st century workforce. tinues to examine ways to offer authors ACM’s partnering with Code.org and readers greater open access to our seeing real represents a significant investment published material. In the past year, in computer science in seeing real computer science exist addition to continuing current policies and count in U.S. high schools. It is an and experiments offering authors a exist and count in investment that has paid off substan- choice of copyright options and a suite U.S. high schools. tially. At the end of FY14, 22 states had of author-retained rights, the Publica- moved to enact legislation to make tions Board approved in concept the computer science count as a core

2 communications of the acm | january 2015 | vol. 58 | no. 1 acm’s annual report for FY14 graduation credit in science and math. and Public Policy assists ACM in a Moreover, over 17 million students, variety of internationally relevant parents, and teachers participated in The ACM-W issues pertaining to and the Hour of Code during Computer Sci- Scholarship program public policy. CCPP’s respected ACM ence Education Week. Forum on Risks to the Public in Com- ACM, through the EPC, participated further enhanced puters and Related Systems, designed in the Leadership Council of the STEM its support for women to discuss potential and serious com- Education Coalition. White House puter-related risks with a global au- briefs on STEM policy allowed educa- undergraduate and dience, covers such issues as human tion stakeholders to learn about the graduate students safety, privacy, election integrity, Administration’s proposed STEM re- and societal/legal responsibilities. organization plans and to discuss such in computer science Over this fiscal year, 63 issues of the issues with policymakers. and related Risks digest were produced. The CSTA continues to thrive as a key component in ACM’s efforts programs. Students to support computer science at the The 38th Annual ACM International high school level. CSTA membership Collegiate Programming Contest reached almost 17,000, an increase of (ACM-ICPC) was hosted by Ural Federal 21% over FY13. Indeed, there are now ACM Queue, the online practitioner’s University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, with 55 CSTA chapters in 25 U.S. and four magazine spirited by the Practitioner 122 teams competing in the World Fi- Canadian provinces. Board, surpassed the million-pageview nals. Earlier rounds of the competition ACM Europe and Informatics Eu- threshold, with 1,158,741 pages viewed included nearly 32,000 contestants rope continued the work they began over the last 12 months. representing 2,200 universities from last year with their report “Informatics 94 countries. Financial and systems Education—Europe Cannot Afford to Public Policy support for ICPC is provided by IBM. Miss the Boat,” which highlights the ACM’s U.S. Public Policy Council (US- The top four teams won Gold medals need for increased investment in CS ACM) made significant progress this as well as employment or internship education for Europe to remain com- year in delivering on its mission to edu- offers from IBM. petitive in a global technology area. cate and inform policy leaders, ACM The ACM Student Research Com- The group, newly named Committee members, the computing community, petition (SRC), sponsored by Micro- on European Education, plans to sup- and the public about U.S. policy issues soft Research, continues to offer a plement this report by mapping out in- related to IT and computing. unique forum for undergraduate and formatics education both for curricula One of USACM’s major projects this graduate students to present their and for teaching methodologies across year was the establishment of the ACM original research at well-known ACM- Europe. Merit Award in Public Policy to honor sponsored and co-sponsored confer- ACM India established an Educa- efforts by individuals or groups that ences before a panel of judges and at- tion Board with the goal of increasing exhibit excellence in computing policy tendees. This year’s SRC saw graduate knowledge and interest in computing engagement. The ACM Awards com- and undergraduate winners compete throughout the nation’s school sys- mittee approved USACM’s proposal for against more than 215 participants in tem, improve teaching methods and this new policy award last May, with the contests held at 17 ACM conferences. content in engineering colleges, and agreement the award will be given ev- The ACM-W Scholarship program encourage the use of online material ery other year, beginning in 2016. further enhanced its support for for learning about computing. USACM also participated in sev- women undergraduate and graduate eral multistakeholder partnerships to students in CS and related programs. Professional Development help educate and raise awareness of The committee awarded over 40 stu- The Practitioners Board and Profes- technology issues among legislators dent scholarships in FY14 to stu- sional Development Committee (PDC) and the public at large. Among those dents to attend research conferences directed many new products and initia- joint efforts were: working on the around the world. tives designed for computing profes- Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, sionals and managers. USPTO software partnership, Internet Internationalization In FY14, ACM PDC continued the policy task force, and Congressional Representatives from government, in- successful webinar series with consis- Internet Caucus Advisory Committee. dustry, and academia considered Eu- tent monthly webcasts, tighter inte- ACM Europe established a EUACM rope’s future global competitiveness gration with SIGs, and a more diverse body (similar to USACM) to address in research and innovation at a spe- set of topics. The committee added 13 public policy concerns affecting the cial open session at the ACM Europe webinars in FY14. Among the featured European computing community. Council meeting last March. The panel topics: IPv6 security, Intro to WebGL, The first policy position of ACM Eu- explored “The Future of Computer Sci- Ruby for the Nuby, Hadoop/Big Data, rope was issues regarding the Trans- ence Research in Europe,” particularly and MOOCs. Atlantic Trade Agreement. some of the weaknesses in the Horizon For the fourth consecutive year, The Committee on Computers 2020 research program, for which the

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EU has invested nearly 80 billion eu- Balance Sheet: June 30, 2014 (in Thousands) ros. The meeting proved a unique op- portunity to address the funding, edu- cational, and research issues facing CS research in Europe. Assets ACM Europe also steered sever- Cash and cash equivalents $37,024 al activities to raise the visibility of Investments 79,657 ACM’s mission and value throughout Europe. The Council of European Accounts receivable and other current assets 7,593 Chapter Leaders (CECL) was created Deferred conference expenses and other assets 7,661 last year to promote networking be- Fixed assets, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization 1,046 tween chapter leaders and to help grow more sustainable chapters. ACM Total Assets $132,981 Europe has been working tirelessly to increase the number of ACM con- LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS ferences in Europe. They also further strengthened their collaboration with Liabilities: Informatics Europe to share resourc- es and organizational insights. Accounts payable, accrued expenses, and other liabilities $13,996 ACM-W Europe held its first event Unearned conference, membership, and subscription revenue 24,627 at Manchester University last March. Total liabilities $38,623 womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing brought students, career Net assets: researchers and practitioners to pres- Unrestricted 87,851 ent, share, and celebrate their techni- cal accomplishments and experiences Temporarily restricted 6,507 working and studying computing. The ACM China Council was re- Total net assets 94,358 formulated this year; its new agenda Total liabilities and net assets $132,981 focuses on growing the number of chapters, launching student chap- Optional Contributions Fund — Program Expense ($000) ters, starting new China-wide awards, bringing more conferences to China, Education Board accreditation $95 and engaging in education work, par- USACM Committee 20 ticularly the translation of CS2013 to Chinese. In FY14, the number of Total expenses $115 chapters in China grew 77%. ACM India is now in full opera- tion as a separate legal entity. The Re- managing rights and permissions. The tinue to strengthen their online pres- search Board of ACM India continues system, used by all ACM journals, pro- ence to build global awareness as to develop; a highlight of its efforts ceedings, and magazines, completely well as incorporate social media into included a major faculty summit orga- automates the rights transfer process. their operation at every opportunity. nized by ACM India and MSR India In Statistics prove that more and SIGHPC hosted two webinars during FY14, the number of chapters in India more readers are accessing ACM’s the year that broke all previous ACM grew 16%. magazines via mobile devices. Com- records for participation. The SIG A series was organized by ACM-W munications of the ACM, ACM Inroads, also chartered the first ACM “virtual India jointly with Madras Manage- XRDS, and Interactions are acces- chapter,” which focuses on education. ment Association. The talks were sible as easy-to-use mobile apps for intended for company executives, iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. Conferences professionals, administrators, consul- These downloadable apps enable SIGGRAPH 2013 welcomed 17,162 tants, and students. Of special inter- members to access their favorite artists, research scientists, gaming est was the first-of-its-kind CODhER ACM magazines in a new way. experts and developers, filmmak- Hackathon to promote participation ACM-W debuted a new website ers, students, and academics from 77 among women in technical events. designed to act as an international countries to Anaheim, CA. Over 1,350 hub for all of the council’s events, an- speakers and contributors participat- Electronic Community nouncements, programs, and online ed in the event and SIGGRAPH’s exhi- ACM’s e-Rights transfer application services. The site also introduced a bition hall drew 180 industry organi- system completed its first full year of digital version of thepopular ACM-W zations from 15 countries. operations. This comprehensive sys- Connections newsletter. Both SIGCOMM and SIGKDD drew tem gives authors new options for ACM SIGs across the board con- record-high attendance to their flag-

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2014 ACM Statement of Activities: Year ended June 30, 2014 (in Thousands) Award Recipients

Temporarily ACM A.M. Turing Award revenue Unrestricted Restricted Total Leslie Lamport

Membership dues $8,323 $8,323 ACM-Infosys Foundation Publications 20,375 20,375 Award in the Computing Sciences Conferences and other meetings 27,161 27,161 David Blei

Interests and dividends 1,870 1,870 Grace Murray Hopper Award Net appreciation of investments 6,813 6,813 Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb Contributions and grants 3,994 $1,556 5,550 karl v. karlstrom Outstanding Educator Other revenue 253 253 Award Net assets released from restrictions 1,763 (1,763) 0 Susan H. Rodger

Total Revenue 70,552 (207) 70,345 Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award Donna Cappo EXPENSES Russell Harris Program: Distinguished Service Membership processing and services $812 $812 Award Gerhard T. Goos Publications 11,207 11,207 Juris Hartmanis Conferences and other meetings 24,606 24,606 Jan van Leeuwen Program support and other 9,446 9,446 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Total 46,071 46,071 Robert D. Blumofe Charles E. Leiserson Supporting services: Software System Award General administration 11,263 11,263 Coq Marketing 1,167 1,167 Thierry Coquand Gérard Huet Total 12,430 12,430 Christine Paulin-Mohring Bruno Barras Total expenses 58,501 58,501 Jean-Christophe Filliâtre Hugo Herbelin Chet Murthy Increase (decrease) in net assets 12,051 (207) 11,844 Yves Bertot Pierre Castéran Net assets at the beginning of the year 75,800 6,714 82,514 Net assets at the end of the year $87,851 $6,507 $94,358* 2014 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award * Includes SIG Fund balance of $39,834K Trevor Mudge

2014 ACM-IEEE CS Ken ship conferences. SIGCOMM 13 was ACM also named 40 new Distin- Kennedy Award held this year in Hong Kong, and KDD guished Members in FY14, of which Charles E. Leiserson 2013 in Chicago noted a 16% growth there were four Distinguished Educa- ACM Presidential Award in participants over the previous year. tors, six Distinguished Engineers, and Mehran Sahami 30 Distinguished Scientists, bring- Recognition ing the total number of Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award There were 147 new chapters char- Members to 371. Sanjam Garg teredd in FY14. Of the 36 new profes- In the field of multimedia retrieval sional chapters, five were U.S.-based conferences, the Chinese Comput- Honorable Mention and 31 were based outside the U.S.; of ing Federation Conference Rankings Grey Ballard Shayan Oveis Gharan the 111 new student chapters, 53 were named ACM’s International Confer- established in the U.S. and 58 outside ence on Multimedia Retrieval first in The 2014–2015 ACM-W the U.S. the world. Athena Lecturer Award The ACM Fellows Program recog- Susan T. Dumais nized 50 members for their contribu- ACM India Doctoral tions to computing and computer sci- Dissertation Award ence in FY14. © 2015 ACM 0001-0782/15/01 Ramprasad Saptharishi

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