Communications of the ACM
To the Members of ACM
Credit: University of Athens
It is an honor for me to be communicating with you for the first time as ACM President. I intend to be doing this regularly, from the pages of Communications, and any other channel I will be setting up for interaction between us.
I am currently working together with the other elected officers to develop the agenda of our term and establish plans to implement it. On the table are the issues that I presented in my candidacy statement, as well as those that members raised in the Q&A process that was set up during the election. The ACM Executive Committee is having a thorough discussion, starting from taking stock of how well ACM is fulfilling its mission and planning to further strengthen what is in excellent shape already, but mostly to focus on what seems weaker or missing and bring it to the same level of prominence. All issues are prioritized according to the needs of the community and their potential for timely impact.
Comments
Noureldien Abdelrahman
"We will ensure candidates from all regions of the world are considered for all major positions and, without making any discounts on excellence, strive for diversity in the overall mosaic of ACM leaders and members of ACM bodies"
This statement express an ideal idea theoretically. Practically it is hard if not impossible to be applied. Striving for diversity, globally, without discounting excellence measures needed for ACM leaders and members of ACM bodies, is just a fiction. This is simply because there is a computing knowledge gap between the global regions. So we need to hack the gap first.
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