2022Q3 Reports: Member at-large

Paper awards policies

(a) Finalized discussion and suggestions encouraging the next conference chairs to follow anonymity in best paper awards reviewing, and the ACL Exec committee came up with multiple concrete suggestions to give to conference chairs on how to handle the anonymity issues based on either pre-cameraready or post-cameraready versions; (b) discussions on having more types of diverse awards, including student paper awards.

ACL Cloud GPU program for underserved communities

In active conversation with NSF program directors about recent, relevant GPU/infrastructure programs such as NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and CloudBank.