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ACM SIG Governing Board Report on ACM History Committee

This report outlines the goals, current projects, and future projects of the ACM History Committee in preserving and conveying ACM's contributions to the history of computing. It also highlights some SIG efforts in preserving their own history.

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ACM SIG Governing Board Report on ACM History Committee

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  1. ACM SIG Governing BoardReport on ACM History Committee Mark Scott Johnson 2004/03/21

  2. Presentation Outline • Executive Summary • Background • Committee Goals • Current Projects • Future Projects • Some SIG Efforts to Date • Q&A ACM History Committee Report

  3. Executive Summary • The ACM EC recently chartered and seeded a standing committee to preserve ACM’s history. • I’ve been appointed to represent the SIGs on this committee. • There will be funding requests to the SIGs in the future. ACM History Committee Report

  4. Background • 2003/08: Rick Snodgrass (SIGMOD Past Chair) circulates proposal to preserve ACM’s history. • 2003/12: Maria Klawe (ACM President) appoints Rick co-chair of Ad Hoc Committee on ACM History. ACM History Committee Report

  5. Background (cont.) • 2004/01/30-31: Committee meets in New York City. • 2004/02: ACM EC approves standing ACM History Committee (same members). • 2004/03: ACM Council asked to approve first-year budget. ACM History Committee Report

  6. Background (cont.) • Committee Members: • Rick Snodgrass, Co-Chair • David Wise, Co-Chair (and ACM VP) • Beth Kaplan, Archivist, Charles Babbage Inst. • Bill Aspray, Historian, Indiana Univ. • Tom Haigh, Historian, Consultant • Mike Mahoney, Historian, Princeton Univ. ACM History Committee Report

  7. Background (cont.) • Committee Members (cont.): • Pat Ryan, ACM COO • TBD, ACM Awards liaison • TBD, ACM Ed Board liaison • [Bob Allen], ACM Pubs Board liaison • M.S. Johnson, ACM SGB liaison ACM History Committee Report

  8. Committee Goals • Preserve historical materials to help historians tell ACM’s story. • Convey ACM’s contributions to the History of Computing. • Help SIGs preserve their history and convey their contributions. ACM History Committee Report

  9. Current Projects • Oral Histories • 5-10/year, starting with early ACM Presidents and Turing Award winners • Turing Award Website • EiC under ACM Pubs Boards • Identify Possible External Funds ACM History Committee Report

  10. Current Projects (cont.) • Ancillary Material in the DL • Non-technical portions of all ACM publications and conferences, including SIG newsletters • Under ACM Pubs Board • ACM HQ Archives • Audit existing archive • Draft Archive Retention Policy • Draft Archive Plan ACM History Committee Report

  11. Future Projects • Create ACM Archive. • Improve ACM (including SIG) Award Websites. • Develop Training Workshops on History (for SIGs and others). ACM History Committee Report

  12. Future Projects (cont.) • Encourage Scholarship of the History of Computing. • Encourage Scholarship of ACM’s Organizational History and Contributions to Computing. • Produce Follow-up to Turing Award Lectures Book [possibly]. ACM History Committee Report

  13. Some SIG Efforts to Date • SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH history columns in their newsletters • SIGMOD History Project • SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conferences • SIGSOFT Impact Project ACM History Committee Report

  14. Q&A ACM History Committee Report

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