A call for nominations for her successor

Éva Tardos’s sentence as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Journal of the ACM (JACM) is coming to an end. She has served almost six years. She will be paroled soon for her good behavior.

Today we announce that a grand jury is being convened. This group is charged with finding the right person to be indicted as the next editor-in-chief of the JACM.

Tips on possible suspects should be directed to lieutenant Chris Hankin here. Note that the location is not far from Scotland Yard. He is in charge of the grand jury:

Laura Haas (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University, Israel)
Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford, UK)
Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Salil Vadhan (Harvard University, US)
Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T, US), ACM Pubs Board Liaison

History

The JACM was established in 1954 and has published over 3,000 papers, since then. There were 196 submissions received in 2020 alone. The current editorial board is this. Previous editors-in-chief are:

1954 – 1958: Franz Alt
1959 – 1962: Mario Juncosa
1963 – 1965: Richard Hamming
1966 – 1968: Calvin Gotlieb
1969 – 1972: Gerard Salton
1973 – 1975: Raymond Miller
1976 – 1979: Edward Coffman, Jr.
1979 – 1982: Michael Garey
1983 – 1986: Michael Fischer
1986 – 1990: Daniel Rosenkrantz
1991 -1997: Tom Leighton
1997 – 2003: Joseph Halpern
2003 – 2009: Prabhakar Raghavan
2009 – 2015: Victor Vianu
2015 – currently: Éva Tardos

Selection

Typically many candidates are available, but only the most dramatic cases will be considered. Nominations should include a vita along with a brief statement of why the nominee should be considered. Why they are un-worthy to be made into the editor-in-chief? A vision statement is highly encouraged. The relevant law is found here:

Roles and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing

ACM’s Evaluation Criteria for Editors-in-Chief

Open Problems

All kidding aside. We thank Éva for her hard work keeping the JACM one of the top journals in the world. We can only hope that the next chief will be nearly as sucessful as she has been.