SIGARCH Viability Review

Doug Burger

SIGARCH Chair

September 2010

Financial Goals

• Grow fund balance slowly– Industry contributions to conferences high– NSF, IEEE matching funds common– SC fellowships endowed

• Support students and outreach– Increased student travel support to all >=33% conferences– Child care and companion travel programs– Supported CRA-W/CDC Architecture Workshop in 2008– Supporting CRA-W scholarship recipients

Membership Benefits

• Conferences– Copious healthy conferences supported

• Awards– Publication, student, career, service awards

• Outreach– Support for students, access, diversification

• Publications– SIGARCH newsletter in addition to conferences

• Stabilized membership– Current membership of 1389

• Increase of 45 from 2009, decline from 1427 in 2006

– Membership fees flat for many years, e-membership option reduces costs

• Currently 270 members registered under electronic option

Goal #1: Intellectual Excellence• SIGARCH Goal #1: Building an intellectual community and recognizing excellence

within that community• Publications

– SIGARCH Computer Architecture News• 4 regular issues, several have special sections on workshop proceedings

• Special issues: ISCA and ASPLOS proceedings

• Plan to reinvigorate non-special issues

– “Publications plus” program with SC, ICS, SPAA proceedings– New e-membership option, reduced dues and no print mailings– SIGARCH announcement email 2x/month

• Outreach– Enhanced student travel, companion travel, child care support– SC fellowships, CRA-W support for diversification in the area

• Awards– Eckert-Mauchly, Maurice Wilkes, ISCA Influential Paper, Distinguished Service Award (2008),

Ken Kennedy (2009), ASPLOS Best Paper (2009)

– Planned awards: Doctoral Dissertation award, ASPLOS influential paper award– ISCA co-sponsored by SIGARCH proudly hosted the ACM A.M. Turing Lecture

Goal #2: Successful Meetings• SIGARCH Goal #2: have a rich portfolio of successful,

influential, healthy conferences• 50-100% sponsorship

– ISCA, ASPLOS, SCXY, ICS, SPAA, HPDC, GRID

• 10-49% sponsorship– PACT, NOCS, ANCS, SENSYS, ICAC

• In cooperation: 6 conferences• Moved ASPLOS to annual conference

– Creating Influential Paper Award

• Many overlapping architecture conferences– SIGARCH, SIGMICRO, IEEE TCCA sponsors– Other SIGs for some conferences– Complex to set schedules

Goal #3: Policy Transparency

• SIGARCH primarily a research-supporting organization• Formalization and documentation of policies

– Award committee procedures (Eckert-Mauchly)– ASPLOS Steering Committee composition

• Bylaws Change– In 2009, changed bylaws to be gender neutral and add

Information Director position

• New expanded website close to ready– Enhanced transparency, publication of all procedures,

committee composition rules, etc.– Community can understand how everything works from reading

the website