CGO Charter

 

Charter for the IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Code
Generation Optimization (CGO) 

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Mission Statement

• To foster innovation and advance technical development in the theory, practice, and application of
  code generation and optimization, encompassing static, feedback-directed, and runtime techniques.
• To promote cooperation and substantive technical exchange among members of
  academia and industry who are working in this area.
• To provide an annual meeting for the presentation and discussion of
  technical papers, and provide a means for the broader dissemination of these
  papers.

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Steering Committee Members

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute and work to implement ways to improve CGO’s vision, focus,
  growth, relevance, and success.
• Nominate and elect the annual chairs.
• Oversee the adjustment of the technical focus direction, as reflected in the call for papers.
• Be willing to serve on the program committee and attend all steering committee meetings.
• Take an active role in the CGO conference each year.
• Elect steering committee members, steering committee chair, and annual chairs.
• No member of the steering committee accepts any legal liability for the activities of CGO or persons at CGO events.

Term: 3 years

Term limits: None

Eligibility

• Must be
  actively involved in research and development of CGO techniques and
  systems.
• Must be an
  active participant in CGO, not missing its events for more than one year in
  a row.

Number of members on the steering committee

• Shall not be more than seven or fewer than three without a unanimous vote by the steering committee.

Current membership

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Steering Committee Chair

All of the responsibilities of a steering committee member, plus:

• Take the initiative to actively lead CGO, fostering a vision, shepherding its growth
  and vibrancy, keeping it relevant to the changing needs of the community.
• Set an agenda for and run the steering committee meeting.
• Implement the decisions of the steering committee, or delegate
  responsibility to do so.
• See that the next year’s chairs and location are selected in time to make
  an announcement at CGO.
• Oversee the finances and management of CGO, delegating these
  responsibilities to annual chairs as appropriate.

Term: 3 years

Term limit: Cannot be elected to consecutive terms, but eligible for re-election thereafter.

Eligibility

• Must meet eligibility requirements of a steering committee member.
• Must have served on the steering committee for at least one year.

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Annual Chairs

The program chair(s) and the general chair(s) are collectively the annual chairs for the purposes of this charter.

Responsibilities

Manage the annual conference, including:

• Set a tone and direction, as expressed in the call for papers.
• Select the program committee and appoint any remaining positions in the organizing committee in consultation with the steering committee.
• Handle publicity, logistics, registration, and finances.
• Organize and run the final program schedule, e.g. arrange panels, invited speakers, awards.

Eligibility

• Must be actively involved in research and development of CGO techniques and systems.
• Must be an active participant in CGO.

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Elections and Other Changes

• Election of steering committee chair shall be by majority vote of the steering
  committee.
• Election of
  steering committee members shall be by majority vote of
  the steering committee, in consultation with
  sponsoring organizations.
• Election of the next annual chairs shall be by majority vote of
  the steering committee and the current year’s annual chairs, in consultation with
  sponsoring organizations.
• Voting should occur only after a full discussion of the strengths and
  weaknesses of the nominated candidate. Discussion should be mediated by the
  steering committee chair, and members should strive for consensus.
• Ordinarily, all voting is open. Any steering committee member may
  request a secret vote, the results of which will be tallied by a
  mutually-agreed upon third party.
• This charter may be amended or augmented only by a two-thirds majority
  vote of members of the steering committee.

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Conference Proposal Procedure

The next year’s conference call for papers should be presented at the
business meeting and distributed at the conference. The following should be
part of the CFP:

• General location and approximate dates, if not the actual hotel and dates contracted.
• Primary chairs: general, program, finance, publicity, local arrangements, workshop, and tutorial.
• Paper solicitation, with dates, topic areas, and submission procedures.

Proposals for future conferences should be handled as follows:

• Proposals for years n+2 and n+3 should ordinarily be made at the business
  meeting for conference year n.
• All proposals should specify a proposed program chair, general chair, approximate
  location, and an argument for that location. Ideally, they should include approximate
  hotel, venue and transportation costs, and expected attendance.
• The steering committee will select the venue for year n+2 from among the competing
  proposals in the months after the conference in year n, and may request additional
  information from the proposers to make this decision.
• The steering committee will vote to select the venue and annual chairs for year n+2.

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The current charter was ratified on 4/28/2010 by the serving steering committee:

Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai

David August

Carol Eidt

Mary Hall

Kim Hazelwood

CJ Newburn

Ben Zorn

The original charter was ratified on 8/15/2001 by the following steering committee:

Brad Calder

Jong-Deok Choi

Tom Conte

Evelyn Duesterwald

CJ Newburn

Mike Smith

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Events

• CJ Newburn was unanimously elected to a 3-year term as steering committee chair by that committee, starting 8/15/01.
• Wen-mei Hwu was unanimously elected to a 3-year term as steering committee member by that committee, starting 2/17/02.
• Richard Johnson was unanimously elected as an annual chair by the steering committee, starting
  3/15/02.
• Brad Calder was unanimously elected as the steering committee chair in 2006.
• Wen-mei Hwu and CJ Newburn were unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2006 for a 2006-2009 term.
• In 2006, Mike Smith’s term was set to expire in 2008, and Tom Conte and Evelyn Duesterwald’s terms were set to expire in 2007, for the sake of staggering.
• Ben Zorn was unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2006 for a staggered 2006-2008 term.
• Brad retired from the steering committee in 2007, given his job responsibilities.
• Mike Smith was unanimously elected as the steering committee chair in 2007.
• Mike Smith was unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2007, for a staggered team ending in 2008.
• Tom Conte and Evelyn Duesterwald were unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2007 for a 2007-2010 term.
• David August was unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2007 for a 2007-2010 term.
• Ben Zorn and Mike Smith were unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2008 for a 2008-2011 term.
• Carol Eidt was unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2008 for a 2008-2011 term.
• CJ Newburn was unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2009 for a 2009-2012 term.
• Kim Hazelwood and Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai were unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2009 for a 2009-2012 term.
• David August was unanimously re-elected to the steering committee in 2010 for a 2010-2013 term.
• Mary Hall was unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2010 for a 2010-2013 term.
• Ben Zorn was unanimously elected as the steering committee chair in 2010 for a 2010-2013 term.
• Robert Hundt was unanimously elected to the steering committee in 2011 for a 2011-2014 term.