The term of the current Editors-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) will end soon. The ACM Publications Board has chartered a search committee to identify suitable candidates for Editor-in-Chief of TAP, and to recommend one for approval by the Board.

Search Committee

Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, Chair
Michael Langer, McGill University
Ann McNamara, St. Louis University
Holly Rushmeier, Yale University, ACM Publications Board Liaison

Duties

The duties of ACM Editors-in-Chief are summarized in http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/evaluation. Further information can be found in ACM Publications Policies http://www.acm.org/publications/policies.

Qualifications

Candidates should have a well-recognized research record in inter-disciplinary research that crosses the boundaries between perception and computer science disciplines such as graphics, vision, acoustics and haptics. In addition, candidates should have editorial experience.

Nomination Process

To nominate a colleague, send a summary of candidate's relevant research contributions and editorial qualifications to the committee chair, whose email address is interran@cs.umn.edu The committee accepts self-nominations, which should be accompanied by the candidate's vita and a statement of their "vision" for the journal.

Deadline

The committee will start evaluating candidates after August 30, 2008. Nominations arriving after this date are not guaranteed to be considered.