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September 2008 Conference Call


History Committee Conference Call, September 11, 2008, 4:00-5:00 PM Eastern Time

Participants: Bill Aspray, Mary Hall, Len Shustek, Rick Snodgrass, and David S. Wise
  1. Discussion of new members for HC
    • We tentatively agreed to some historians to invite to the committee.
    • SIG representation?
    We'll work with Alex Wolf, chair of the SIG Governing Board, to appoint a SGB liaison.
  2. On October 14 David Mary will represent HC to the ACM Pubs Board in their meeting at HQ.
  3. We discussed possible new interviews to commission.
  4. Scheduling spring face-to-face meeting.
We need to schedule this soon, possibly colocating the HC spring f2f meeting with another ACM unit, either in NY or west coast. Appendix:

The list from PubsBd for one hour.

  1. Archive and Access to Referee Reports (25 minutes)
    1. Current policies and practice
    2. Who should have the rights to access reviews?
    3. How should an access policy be administered?
  2. Turing Award Site (10 minutes)
    1. Plans for content on the TA site
    2. Open access to papers by Turing Awardees: proposed implementation
  3. Proposed New Content for the DL (25 min)
    1. Classic books initiative
    2. (old) AFIPS Proceedings
    3. ACM MemberNet
    4. USACM reports
    5. ACM Reports: curricula, globalization, etc.
    6. Interviews "journal"
    7. Journal jump off page for each journal
    8. Others?