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Listening Within

Events in 2020 created a moment of reckoning and a movement centered on and illuminating deeply ingrained patterns, processes, and prejudices of inequity and injustice faced by generations of Black Americans. Almost no institution was immune to probing questions concerning diversity, inclusion, and equity. Many professional membership organizations were also being asked to address the injustices manifested in their practices and traditions. Within ACM, however, the insider perspectives on this issue were not always clear. And so, from April until August 2021 I carried out research to determine whether ACM members, volunteers, staff and external experts believed that ACM should and could become a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization. This research is captured in a report entitled: All the Voices: Doing the Work to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout ACM.

ACM members shine bright in Arkansas

ACM members shine bright in Arkansas

"Teach your children well" value-neutrality and CS202X

Beginning with the work of the ACM Curricular Committee on Computer Science in the early 1960s, and continuing approximately every decade since, ACM members have contributed to establishing curricular guidelines for undergraduate computer science education [1, 2]. This work is continuing with the recent formation of the CS202X Steering Committee, which is tasked with revising the recommendations for the next decade [3]. As such reports are reflect the work of their associated Steering Committees and the input of the computing community, "the reports are documents that reflect their time" [6]. Furthermore, curricular reports are not value-neutral, nor should they be (see below). Instead, as SIGCAS members, we should attempt to infuse into the CS202X curriculum the values we expect computer science graduates to exhibit throughout their computing careers. Naturally, what specific values should be included is up to our membership and, as a individual member of SIGCAS, I'll explore this topic in the remainder of this Parting Opinion column.

SIGCSE members named distinguished ACM members

ACM announced the 2019 Distinguished Members class at https://awards.acm.org/ distinguished-members.

Report of a debate on Snowden's actions by ACM members

In 2012 Edward Snowden starting releasing a cache of computer files to a small number of journalists, which he claimed to have copied from servers at the US' National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA have disputed the context or interpretation of some of the material published by the journalists, but have confirmed that Snowden had previously worked at the agency as an employee of an external firm Booz Hamilton. The result of Snowden's revelations have included a large scale debate about the activities of both the US' NSA and their partner agency in the UK (Government Communications Headquarters) in monitoring the communications of individuals and organisations worldwide. ACM SIGCAS makes an Award each year called the "Making a Difference Award". Typically this has gone to a researcher in computer ethics or a practitioner or researcher in some other field of computer science whose work has had a significant socially beneficial impact. In 2013 some members of SIGCAS engaged in an online debate about whether Snowden would be a worth recipient of this award. The arguments put forth in this debate illuminate the divided opinions regarding Snowden's actions in the general population are also present in the computer ethics community. A distillation of the arguments put forward are presented in this piece without individual attribution to the commenters.

Ubiquity symposium: The science in computer science

In the third installment of this symposium, which originally appeared in the Communication the ACM , we go back to 1981. More than 30 years ago, I called on ACM members to employ more experimental methods and avoid confusing hacking (tinkering) with true science. Joining a long tradition of ACM Presidents speaking up about computing as science.

Ubiquity symposium: The science in computer science

The first article in this symposium, which originally appeared in the Communication the ACM, is courtesy of ACM President Vinton Cerf. Earlier this year, he called on all ACM members to commit to building a stronger science base for computer science. Cerf cites numerous open questions, mostly in software development, that cry out for experimental studies.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

From the presidents of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM

As most members of our organizations probably know, there is a great deal of overlap between the products and services offered by the IEEE CS and ACM. In fact, about 27% of ACM members belong to IEEE CS.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.

In the Virtual Extension

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.