ACM Update

November 2, 2013

John White

Outline

• ACM Update

– Membership

– International initiatives

– Education

– Upcoming ACM retreat

Membership

• Membership

ACM Today

31-Aug-13

Professional 76,674Student 32,076

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Total

• Membership

Total 108,750 100%

US 52,154 48%Canada 3,442 3%Europe 16,535 15%India 7,170 7%China 14,412 13%Hong Kong 428 0%Other Intl. 14,609 13%

ACM in General

• Membership

Total 108,750 100%

US 52,154 48%Canada 3,442 3%Europe 16,535 15%India 7,170 7%China 14,412 13%Hong Kong 428 0%Other Intl. 14,609 13%

ACM in General

• Membership – Professional

Total 76,674 100%

US 38,912 51%Canada 2,613 3%Europe 12,409 16%India 3,589 5%China 9,369 12%Hong Kong 349 0%Other Intl. 9,433 12%

ACM in General

• Membership – Student

Total 32,076 100%

US 13,242 41%Canada 829 3%Europe 4,126 13%India 3,581 11%China 5,043 16%Hong Kong 79 0%Other Intl. 5,176 16%

ACM in General

• Trends– Total

June-08 June-09 June-10 June-11 June-12 Aug-13 % Change

Total 88,882 94,204 97,110 96,280 103,663 108,750 22.4%

US 53,439 55,608 55,744 54,543 53,384 52,154 -2.4%

Canada 3,498 3,705 4,173 3,867 3,538 3,442 -1.6%

Europe 14,615 15,328 16,753 17,141 16,514 16,535 13.1%

India 2,683 2,858 3,868 4,564 4,402 7,170 167.2%

China 1,149 1,846 1,733 1,556 11,470 14,412 1154.3%

Hong Kong 421 456 552 478 448 428 1.7%

Other Intl. 13,077 14,403 14,287 14,131 13,907 14,609 11.7%

Membership

• Trends– Professional

June-08 June-09 June-10 June-11 June-12 Aug-13 % Change

Total 66,535 68,596 68,717 68,514 74,502 76,674 15.2%

US 41,882 42,369 41,331 40,612 39,892 38,912 -7.1%

Canada 2,833 2,936 2,890 2,835 2,723 2,613 -7.8%

Europe 11,131 11,720 12,374 12,315 12,335 12,409 11.5%

India 1,457 1,675 2,425 2,742 2,270 3,589 146.3%

China 482 587 719 680 7,852 9,369 1843.8%

Hong Kong 359 357 351 354 349 349 -2.8%

Other Intl. 8,391 8,952 8,627 8,976 9,081 9,433 12.4%

Membership

• Trends– Students

June-08 June-09 June-10 June-11 June-12 Aug-13 % Change

Total 22,347 25,608 28,393 27,766 29,161 32,076 43.5%

US 11,557 13,239 14,413 13,931 13,492 13,242 14.6%

Canada 665 769 1,283 1,032 815 829 24.7%

Europe 3,484 3,608 4,379 4,826 4,179 4,126 18.4%

India 1,226 1,183 1,443 1,822 2,132 3,581 192.1%

China 667 1,259 1,014 876 3,618 5,043 656.1%

Hong Kong 62 99 201 124 99 79 27.4%

Other Intl. 4,686 5,451 5,660 5,155 4,826 5,176 10.5%

Membership

International Initiatives

International Initiatives

• Europe

– Established ACM Europe as a legal entity within the EU

– First European Computing Research Congress (ECRC) held in May in Paris

– Issued report on secondary computing education in Europe

– Engaging research funding issues/policy at the EU level

• India

– Legal entity within India with ACM India Council elected by ACM Indian members

– Education initiative

– Taking a CRA-like role for India

International Initiatives

• China

– MOU with China Computer Federation (CCF) extended

– Rebuilt the ACM China Council

– Held a meeting of the full ACM China Council in Changsha

• Building agenda for chapters, education, publication, awards

• Soon will start monthly translation of CACM to Chinese– Five articles per month– High quality translation

» First pass: contractors» Second pass: ACM China CACM Editorial Board domain experts

– MOE may invest in this effort» Acknowledge CACM as a legitimate publication in China» Contribute to raising awareness of the Chinese version of CACM

Education

Education

• CS 2013 coming to a conclusion

• Education Policy

– The “community” partnering with code.org to build a public/private partnership to shift the US education system

– ACM is in a unique partnership with code.org

– Code.org• Scaling the strategy to increase access to real CS in K12

• Leading the advocacy work of CinC

• Leading the public awareness work of CS Education Week

• MOOC’s Symposium

– ACM Symposium on Learning @ Scale

– Sponsor: ACM Education Board

ACM Retreat

Origins

• Original motivation

– Open access movement and the challenges/threats posed to the ACM publishing program (and business)

– Getting in front of publishing trends

• But there are major challenges to multiple dimensions of ACM

– Membership

– Technical communities (SIGs) and conferences

– Publishing/DL

– The models that underpin all of the above

Structure

• Question to be answered:

– How must ACM restructure its portfolio of core activities, and the business models that support them, to stay relevant and viable in the future? 

• Approach:

– Unpack and understand the core activities and business model(s) surrounding: Membership; Conferences; Publications

– Understand the challenges and forces at play for each area and related model

– Assess the strengths/weaknesses of each model relative to emerging challenges and risks

– Explore new thinking for a very interconnected set of (current and future) core activities and the business models to underpin them

Participants

• Extended EC:

– Vint Cerf, Alex Wolf, Vicki Hansen, Erik Altman, Alain Chesnais, Ron Boisvert, Jack Davidson, Joe Konstan

• Key Volunteers:

– Wendy Hall, Moshe Vardi, Salil Vadhan, Stu Feldman

• ACM Staff:

– John White, Pat Ryan, Bernie Rous, Scott Delman, Wayne Graves, Donna Cappo, Russell Harris, Darren Ramdin