Communications of the ACM Newsletter – New Digital Edition

Communications of the ACM Newsletter – New Digital Edition
July 2008


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With this issue, ACM is proud to announce the publication of an entirely redesigned and revitalized Communications of the ACM. In flipping through the pages of this Digital Edition, and of the beautiful print edition many of you will receive in the coming weeks, you will notice that in many ways CACM looks more like an entirely new magazine than a revamped version of its former self. A great deal of effort by a great many people has gone into this redesign, with the ultimate goal of making Communications of the ACM a magazine that is both of higher quality and more relevant for the broader computing community than ever before. It is our hope that you begin to see CACM fulfill both of these important goals with this July issue.



About the Redesign

The redesign refers both to the look and feel of the CACM pages and to the editorial scope of the magazine. In the past year, ACM hired the renowned international design firm Pentagram to completely overhaul the physical publication. They introduced a new three column format and new typography as part of an entirely new graphic design of the magazine. You will find the new magazine filled with comfortable white space, clean lines, fresh colors, more relevant imagery, and more readable typography.

In parallel, ACM appointed an active and vibrant new editorial team, led by Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi, to revamp the magazine's editorial model. Over the coming months, you will see many new editorial features in the magazine, but what is noteworthy for now is the introduction of several well defined sections, including Departments, an expanded News section with in-depth articles on hot computing topics plus shorter news briefs, Viewpoints or opinion articles by leading experts in particular fields, a completely new Practice section led by Stephen Bourne and the editorial board of ACM Queue magazine, Contributed Articles, Review Articles, and the Research Highlights section, which presents full length research papers from around the computing community along with one-page Technical Perspectives that seek to provide context and relevance for non-researchers interested in the latest and most important research coming down the pike.

As with any new magazine design, the first issue is a starting point, and your suggestions for improving the magazine will play an important role in how CACM evolves over time.

In this Issue

This issue offers a rich assortment of articles on emerging areas of computer science objectives, practical research applications, technology news developments, in-depth engineering features, even an editorial debate. Indeed, this great array of topics reflects the diverse professional interests and endeavors of the readers of Communications.

The cover story on Web Science, by James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Daniel Weitzner, examines an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web as an entity in its own right to ensure that it continues to flourish.

Also in this issue:

James Larus and Christos Kozyrakis ponder if transactional memory is the reasonable answer for improving parallel programming.
Mark Oskin traces how changes in computer architecture are about to impact everyone in the IT business.
Erik Wilde and Bob Glushko debunk some popular XML myths.
Adam Leventhal questions the potential of flash memory as a viable platform for a new tier in the storage hierarchy.
Margo Seltzer warns there is more to data access than SQL.
Stephen Andriole and Eric Roberts argue over the technology curriculum in the first in a series of Point/Counterpoint editorial debates. Look for other leading voices to take opposing sides of an industry issue in this new feature.
Donald Knuth reflects on the influences that set the course for his extraordinary career in this first of a two-part interview with fellow A.M. Turing Award winner Edward Feigenbaum.
News on the latest trends in cloud computing, quantum computing, and dependable software design.
A Q&A about model-checking technology with the recipients of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award.
Author Guidelines

In the current issue of the magazine you will find new Author Guidelines, which provide instructions on submitting manuscripts to the new Communications of the ACM. To visit this page, please Click Here.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and comments on Communications of the ACM. Please forward your feedback to: cacmfeedback@acm.org

Sincerely,

Scott Delman
Group Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery


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