I am happy to announce that two new ACL members will join the exec as of January 1, 2012:

• vice-president-elect: Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• member: Jian Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

They replace Ido Dagan (current past president) and Lori Levin (member). The ACL exec acknowledges Lori and Ido for their for the hard work they devoted to ACL during their terms.

Our 2011 president, Kevin Knight, will stay on the board as past president for a year. We welcome our current vice-president Ken Church to the position of ACL president for 2012.