ANNUAL REPORT 2019FISCAL YEAR ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. Letter from the President It’s been quite an eventful year and challenges posed by evolving technology. for ACM. While this annual Education has always been at the foundation of exercise allows us a moment ACM, as reflected in two recent curriculum efforts. First, “ACM’s mission to celebrate some of the many the ACM Task Force on Data Science issued “Comput- hinges on successes and achievements ing Competencies for Undergraduate Data Science Cur- creating a the Association has realized ricula.” The guidelines lay out the computing-specific over the past year, it is also an competencies that should be included when other community that opportunity to focus on new academic departments offer programs in data science encompasses and innovative ways to ensure at the undergraduate level. Second, building on the all who work in ACM remains a vibrant global success of our recent guidelines for 4-year cybersecu- the computing resource for the computing community. rity curricula, the ACM Committee for Computing Edu- ACM’s mission hinges on creating a community cation in Community Colleges created a related cur- and technology that encompasses all who work in the computing and riculum targeted at two-year programs, “Cybersecurity arena” technology arena. This year, ACM established a new Di- Curricular Guidance for Associate-Degree Programs.” versity and Inclusion Council to identify ways to create The following pages offer a sampling of the many environments that are welcoming to new perspectives ACM events and accomplishments that occurred over and will attract an even broader membership from the past fiscal year, none of which would have been around the world. The Council is tasked with identify- possible without the exhaustive efforts of our generous ing best practices, devising plans-of-action, and seek- and energetic volunteers from around the world. ACM ing strategic partnerships to help us advance diversity, is grateful for your resolve and commitment. both within ACM and across the broader community. In the coming year, there is much to do and more For decades, ACM has been a leading force in keep- to explore. As I write this letter, ACM just debuted a ing the computing field, policymakers, and the general total transformation of its Digital Library, complete with public informed about the impact of technological new functionality and an array of enhanced search fea- advances. As technology advances, so do the issues tures and tools. The move to this new platform offers faced as a society. Headlines reflect that data breaches, members a contextualized, responsive resource provid- election compromises, and threats to privacy are oc- ing an exceptional reading experience on a variety of curring on a global scale. To strengthen and expand on devices. I wish you happy hunting in the new DL the efforts of our existing policy committees in the U.S. (dl.acm.org) and all the best for the year ahead. and Europe, ACM has established a worldwide Technol- —Cherri M. Pancake ogy Policy Council. TPC brings together leading policy ACM President, experts to develop a global perspective on the issues July 2018–June 2020 2 ACM ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 Publications Portfolio ACM’s Publications Publications remain one of Portfolio ACM’s principle activities and pivotal lines of business. The “The Publications ACM Publications Board is 54 charged with overseeing a rich Board seeks to Journals and maintain and Transactions portfolio, including research journals, magazines, books, and strengthen conference/workshop proceed- ACM’s position 7 ings (in tandem with ACM SIGs Magazines as the preferred and through the International publisher of Conference Proceedings Series, ICPS). The Board also oversees computing 31 publication policies, ethics and research and to Newsletters plagiarism cases, author rights extend our reach as well as guides the ongoing to become a development of the diamond of ACM’s publications offerings—the ACM Digital Library. leading provider FY19 was a fruitful year in terms of publication activities of advanced- and achievements. One of the major efforts was the level content migration of the ACM’s Digital Library from its long- and services standing in-house platform to Atypon’s comprehensive for the broader publishing platform, Literatum. This migration offers a wide range of features, including data and code-first computing objects, user interface enhancements, and preprint industry” server. In addition to reviewing the migration progress, the Publications Board continues to look forward on — Jack W. Davidson and issues of code storage, replicability, and broader DL Joseph A. Konstan services. The Board played a key role in garnering com- Co-chairs, munity feedback from a beta version of the new DL, ACM Publication Board and those comments were taken into account during the migration phase. In FY19, over 34,000 full-text articles were added to the Digital Library, bringing the total DL holdings to 516,000 articles. ACM’s Guide to Computing Literature is 3 ACM ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 Publications Portfolio also integrated within the DL. More than 95,000 works were added to the bibliographic database in FY19, bringing the total Guide coverage to more than 2.90 million works. During the year, ACM added 671 volumes of conference and related workshop proceedings to its portfolio, including 282 volumes added to ACM’s ICPS, a 14% increase over FY18. ACM magazines continue to generate an enormous number of downloads from the ACM Digital Library. Communications of the ACM counted over 2.4 million article downloads. Moreover, traffic to the flagship magazine’s website this year resulted in 3.6 million pa- geviews and 1.05 million unique users. Ubiquity, eLearn, and Interactions magazines also garner article annual downloads and/or website traffic in the six figures. ACM Books, launched in 2014, continues to thrive. FY19 has seen the completion of ACM Books Collection I (25 titles) and the start of Collection II. The series published six new titles in FY19 and signed publishing agree- ments for six additional titles. ACM’s Publications Board also approved the ACM Trans- actions in Quantum Computing and the ACM Transac- tions in Evolutionary Learning and Optimization. 30,000 18.3 MILLION WORLDWIDE Number of full-text Number of individual downloads in FY19 DL subscribers 2,850 FROM 6.3 MILLION 90 COUNTRIES FROM OVER Number of institutional 160 COUNTRIES DL subscribers Number of DL users worldwide 4 ACM ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 Education ACM leads the computer science education community through the work of its ACM Education Board, the ACM Education Council, ACM SIGCSE, Computer Science “Computer Teachers Association (CSTA), and ACM Education Policy Committee. education is Amy Ko speaking at the 2019 SIGCSE Conference, a celebration so important The Education Board’s highly anticipated report Reten- of the SIG’s 50th anniversary. that everyone tion in Computer Science Undergraduate Programs in the U.S.: Data Challenges and Promising Interventions was wants some of released. This comprehensive study outlined the chal- it. Computer lenges and promising interventions to improve engage- education is so ment and retention of all students, particularly women important that and underrepresented minorities. even small parts The final draft of the curricular guidelines for the Cy- of it are valuable bersecurity Curricular Guidance for Associate Degree Programs (Cyber2yr) was released for global public and useful.” comment. ABET CSAB is developing criteria for accredit- ing two-year programs in cybersecurity based on the — Mark Guzdial Cyber2yr guidelines—a first for CSAB. in ACM Inroads, December 2018 The Data Science Curriculum taskforce seeks to define what the computing/computational contributions are to the field of data science in order to provide guidance for David Joyner presenting his work at the CS or similar departments offering data science pro- 2019 ACM Learning @ Scale conference. grams at the undergraduate level. In FY19, the taskforce released a first draft of computing discipline-specific competencies. The 6th Annual ACM Conference on Learning@Scale was held in Chicago, with students representing almost 44% of the total attendees. 5 ACM ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 Professional Development The Practitioners Board and Chapter Stats in Queue in FY19, with another Professional Development FY19 167 Total New Chapters trio under development. Committee (PDC) directed FY 19 was the year ACM’s “No longer does many new products and new U.S.-based Committee on Professional professional chapters 5 it seem possible initiatives designed for Ethics shared the recently computing professionals and to learn for a new professional updated Code of Ethics and managers. In FY19, the Board while, earn for a 25 chapters outside the U.S. Professional Conduct with the created and expanded a rich world. The Code was translat- while, and then set of activities. new U.S.-based ed into Spanish and Chinese; retire. Careers The PDC’s successful webi- student chapters 45 it was presented at confer- may extend over nar series TechTalks (formerly ences in Poland; and board periods of six known as Learning Webinars) new student chapters members consulted with eth- continue to be some of the 92 outside of the U.S. ics groups in Australia, Italy, decades or more most exciting programs from New Zealand, and the U.K. during which ACM Learning. Highlights in The SIGSOFT webinar series time technology FY19 include talks from lead- had a very busy year, produc- will have ers in AI, machine learning, and deep learning. Indeed, ing 12 webinars on such topics as gender-inclusive a webinar on adversarial machine learning broke all software engineering, the role of programmers in the changed society records (both live and on demand).