ACM SIG Board
Area B Status Report
1997-08-24
Mark Scott Johnson, ACM SIG Area Director

 
SIG Name 
(SIG Type) 
SIG Chair 
(Program Director)
Membership and Retention Rate 
[thru 1997-07]
Technical Meetings 
[approved since 1997-02-09]
Pubications Other Activities
ARCH 
(multi-service)
Jean-Loup Baer [extended] 
(Lisette Burgos)
2,968 (73%) WS on I/O in || & Distr. Systems; 
ICS: Supercomputing (Austria)
quarterly newsletter, on time Maurice Wilkes Award (endowed)
DA 
(multi-service)
Steven Levitan
(Lisette Burgos)
864 (56%) CAD '97; 
ISPD97: Physical Design; 
ISSS97: System Synthesis (Belgium); 
Low Power Electronics & Design; 
VLSI Design (India); 
WS on Timing Issues; 
FPGA98; 
ISPD98
quarterly newsletter, on time
GRAPH 
(multi-service)
Steve Cunningham [reelected] 
(Pat McCarren)
6,841 (56&66%) UI Softwire & Technology; 
WR Software & Technology (Switzerland); 
WS on Graphics Hardware; 
IEEE Visualization '98; 
Autonomous Agents; 
Record attendance at SIGGRAPH '97
quarterly newsletter, one time; 
Supporting ACM Digital Library
Extensive online presence
ICE 
(multi-service)
Hossein Saiedian 
(Lisette Burgos)
637 (51%) none newsletter still overdue
MICRO 
(conference)
Jim Bondi 
(Lisette Burgos)
512 (73%) none annual proceedings, on time
SOFT 
(multi-service)
David Notkin
(Julie Goetz)
5,190 (65%) Quality Week '97; 
PDSE97: SE for || & Distr. Systems; 
SCM97: SW Config. Mgt.; 
ISSTA 98: SW Testing & Analysis; 
ICSE'98 (Japan); 
ESEC/FSE 97 (Switzerland)
bimonthly newsletter, on time Outstanding Research Award

 
SIG FY97 Revenue Budget (Actuals [thru 1997-05]) Fund Balance [thru 1997-05] Status 
(as of)
Next Review Issues Comments
ARCH $1.4M ($172K) $804K Regular 1998-02 Supercomputing reg. fees (resolved); 
Webpage not maintained
DA $1.6M ($1.5M) $1.6M Regular 1998-02
GRAPH $9.6M ($11.6M) $7.7M Regular 
(1997-08)
2001-10 Conf. staffing (resolved); 
Allocation reporting; 
Critical of Societies WG
ExCom approved Bylaw changes for Society model
ICE $39K ($23K) $171K Transitional
(1997-05)
n/a Dissolution on track (two responses so far) Chair not here 
MICRO $31K ($16K) $30K Regular 1998-11 Webpage not maintained Chair not here
SOFT $328K ($154K) $476K Regular 
(1997-02)
2001-02 PDSE97 & SCM97 concerns (resolved); 
Slate was late; 
No annual report