Dear Members of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and computing community

Welcome to this cooperative, ACM/IEEE Computer Society Discussion Forum.  As we noted in our co-published letter, “From the Presidents of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM” that appeared in the August, 2011 issues of CACM and Computer magazine, we have created this Forum to solicit comment, discussion, ideas, and suggestions regarding matters that related to cooperative activities that would benefit the members of both of our societies as well as the computing community in general.

All contributions to this Forum will automatically be noted as “anonymous.”  However if you wish to leave your name and email address, please feel free to do that.  Alternatively, you can email us directly. We welcome your input to this Forum.

Alain Chesnais, ACM President - president@acm.org

Sorel Reisman, IEEE Computer Society President - sreisman@computer.org