Dietmar Jannach is a Professor at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. He has authored more than 150 publications in areas including recommender systems technology, knowledge-based systems development, constraint-based systems, semantic web applications and web mining, and software engineering. His awards include the Advancement Award by the Province of Carinthia (Austria) in the area of Technical Sciences, and several Best Paper Awards, including the ACM Best Full Paper Award at ACM RecSys 2019. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief (along with Li Chen of Hong Kong Baptist University) of the new journal ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS).

TechBriefs is a series of short technical bulletins by ACM’s Technology Policy Council that present scientifically-grounded perspectives on the impact of specific developments or applications of technology. Designed to complement ACM’s activities in the policy arena, the primary goal is to inform rather than advocate for specific policies. The new edition focuses on policy issues raised by facial recognition and its use by governments and the private sector, noting that “facial recognition use is increasing despite the technology’s fundamental limitations, creating profound privacy and ethical challenges.”

Jean Camp is a Professor at Indiana University, where she directs the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering. Her research focuses on the intersection of human and technical trust, leveraging economic models and human-centered design to create safe, secure systems. Camp’s books include “Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce,” and “Economics of Information Security.” She is a member of the ACM US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC). Camp was recently named an ACM Fellow for contributions to computer security and e-crime measures.

Twenty-five ACM members have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in recognition of their efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society. Congratulations to: Ruzena Bajcsy, Eric Brewer, Claire Cardie, Susan Davidson, Rina Dechter, Paul Dourish, Kathleen Fisher, Michael J. Franklin, Juliana Freire, Simson Garfinkel, Mark Hill, Ayanna Howard, Somesh Jha, Yann LeCun, Robin Murphy, Elizabeth Mynatt, Rafail Ostrovsky, David A. Padua, David Parkes, Jignesh M. Patel, Yong Rui, Tuomas Sandholm, Michael Scott, Padhraic Smyth, and Tandy Warnow!

ACM has named 71 members 2021 ACM Fellows for significant contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cryptography, data security and privacy, medical informatics, and mobile and networked systems, among other areas. The ACM Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.

As of January 2022, and for a two-year period, all papers published in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages (TOPLAS) will be published as Gold Open Access (OA) and will be free to read and share via the ACM Digital Library. During the first two years, authors will be given the option (but not required) to pay the APC. Archival content will be made open access as of January 1, 2022 as well. For those authors financially unable to pay the APC as of 2024, ACM has developed a waiver program to ensure that no accepted articles to TOPLAS go unpublished as a result of financial need.

Although research on computational thinking (CT) within K-12 has been emerging over the past few years, few studies have investigated the teaching of CT at the younger ages. The ACM and the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund co-funded this special research publication to examine empirically-based studies that focused on the integration of computational thinking at the elementary levels into a variety of learning disciplines including math, ELA, science, and computer science.

In this ninth episode of ACM-W’s webinar series, “Celebrating Technology Leaders,” host Bushra Anjum and panelists Tertia Labuschagne, Virginia Grande, Courtney Thurston and Katie Panciera will discuss mental health, wellbeing, and self-care. They will provide practical guidance and pointers that anyone can benefit from. Register here for the webinar, which will take place Wednesday, March 16 at 12 pm PDT.

ACM Focus is a new way to explore the breadth and variety of ACM content, and to stay current with the latest trends in your technical community. ACM Focus consists of a set of AI-curated custom feeds by subject, each serving up a focused set of the latest relevant ACM content that provides overall awareness of relevant ACM activities, people, talks and a variety of published works. Examples of topic categories include AI, Web, Applied Computing, Society, Graphics, and more. The feeds are built in an automated fashion and are refined as you interact with them. Explore ACM Focus today!

The Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference will be held this year as a fully virtual event. The virtual conference platform is now accessible for all participants. Participants can watch the pre-recorded presentation videos about the scientific papers. During the live conference in March, authors will only briefly pitch their work and engage in Q&A sessions to discuss their solutions and results. Keynoters include: Valeria Bertacco, University of Michigan; Edoardo Charbon, EPFL; Silvia Bodoardo, Politecnico di Torino; Georges Gielen, University of Leuven; and Wolfgang Burgard, University of Freiburg.

The 27th Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces will be virtually. ACM IUI serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. The conference is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. Keynote speakers are Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech; Ana Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico; and Stuart Russell, University of California at Berkeley.

Postponed from October 2021, the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking will be held in person in New Orleans, with a hybrid option. Keynotes will be delivered by Edward Knightly (Rice University), Mary Baker (Additive, HP), Ness Shroff (The Ohio State University) and 2021 SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award recipient Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University). MobiCom 2022 is being planned for its normal time in Fall 2022.

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