John ImpagliazzoQatar University

Editor-in-Chief – Inroads

Background

ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

SIGCSE Bulletin (1969 through 1997)

SIGCSE Bulletin / inroads (1997 through 2009)

Last issue of SIGCE Bulletin / inroads as we know it

2009 December Volume 41, Number 4

ProblemsAuthors dissatisfied with ACM’s designation of inroads as a

“newsletter”Lack of professional recognitionProblems with tenure and promotion

The quality of inroads is not a “newsletter” as one would find in local community organizations

ACM publishes only Journals (Transactions)Magazines, and Newsletters (SIG)

Movement to transform inroads from a newsletter to a new designation

Inquiries from early 2000s to 2007 More deliberate resolve by SIGCSE Board from 2007 to 2009

New DirectionsACM Establishes a New Magazine

ACM Publication Board gives approval - 2009 May Name – ACM InroadsSimilar to CACM, Interactions, and other ACM magazines

Bifurcation SIGCSE relinquishes to ACM its “ownership” of inroadsSIGCSE is likely to continue the SIGCSE Bulletin

As a real newsletter in 2010 – Volume 42, Number 1Short news items – four to eight pages in length Likely distributed only online or through SIGCSE_Announce

listserv

First Issue of ACM Inroads 2010 March Volume 1, Number 1

Prepublication Evaluation Levels and ACM InroadsRefereed

External peer reviewAttributes: Correct, Clear, Original, Novel, Important Not available for ACM Inroads → Referred to Transactions on Computing

Education (TOCE)

Formally ReviewedExternal peer reviewAttributes: Correct, Clear → with elements of Originality, Novelty, and ImportanceAvailable for ACM Inroads: Invited Editorials, Standard Papers, Extended Papers

ReviewedInternal peer reviewAttributes: Correct, Clear → with elements of Originality, Novelty, and ImportanceAvailable for ACM Inroads: Featured Columns, Bits & Bytes, Peripherals

Highly EditedInternal reviewAttributes: Correct, Clear Available for ACM Inroads: Messages, Letters to the Editor, SIGCSE “Corner”

Look and FeelACM Inroads

Similar to current inroads Different as a magazine

Let’s see what ACM Inroads might look like CoverCover Contents and LayoutContents and Layout

Comments (pro or con) are welcome

Final ThoughtsAlthough no longer a SIGCSE publication, the new

ACM Inroads will be a SIGCSE member benefit

The Education Board/Council should consider contributing quarterly to the new magazine

As Editor-in-Chief, I … Thank the SIGCSE community for its readership and supportThank ACM Headquarters for its guidanceTrust ACM Inroads will be a successful endeavor for all

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