The ACM History Committee currently has three major oral history efforts. These are the A.M. Turing Oral History project, the ACM Key Award Winners Video Series, and the India Industry Leaders Video project.

The fall 2020 status of each of these projects is detailed below.

Turing Oral History Project

All new Award holders have been interviewed, and work is ongoing to license existing Computer History Museum interviews of existing awardees. New interviews are also being conducted in partnership with the CHM. The Turing Award Winner Clips YouTube Channel boasts over 170 snippets from the interviews, with some 300,000 views between them.

Responsible Person: Andrew Meade McGee and Dag Spicer (Turing Award subcommittee); Tom Haigh, project director.

Start Date: FY 2016

Status: The work defined in the original proposal is essentially completed.

ACM Key Award Winners Video Series

Six-year project to conduct, edit, and do post-production of  interviews with winners of Key ACM Awards. Interviews are nominally one hour, conducted and recorded using a video conferencing system such as Zoom.  Over 300 videos have been completed and are archived with ACM and CBI.

Responsible Person: Chuck House, contractor

Start Date: FY2018-2019

Status: Nearly completed.

India Industry Leaders Video Project

A new oral history project has been piloted with two key figures in India’s computing field. Work is ongoing to learn how this experience can be turned into a larger-scale effort.

Responsible Person: Sachin Maheshwari (subcommittee chair)

Start date: June 2019

Status: Interviews completed with work being undertaken to archive and publicise these.