University of California, Berkeley professor and former ACM President David Patterson discusses the upcoming re-launch of Communications of the ACM in this video presentation.

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A great deal of thought and energy has gone into Communications of the ACM's redesign to make the publication more relevant, more vital, and more appealing to ACM members. All aspects of the publication were scrutinized: its content, its look, even its name. The result is the new CACM, which will debut with the July issue. An accompanying redesign of the CACM website is already under way. Learn more about the redesigned CACM magazine from CACM's new Editor-in-Chief, Moshe Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Institute at Rice University.