# XRDS (magazine)

XRDS, formerly Crossroads, is the flagship academic magazine for student members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Issues focus on computer science topics and are published quarterly in both print and electronic forms. The magazine is distributed to tens of thousands of students worldwide. The full text of every issue is available online to ACM members through the ACM Digital Library, with many articles selected by the editorial staff open to the general public. The first edition was published in 1994$^{(ACM2010)}$ and was ACM's first electronically produced publication, originally being distributed in HTML. It is run by a group of volunteer students and supported by staff at ACM headquarters in New York City. XRDS employs a mixed invited and unsolicited submissions model, which are refereed by a staff of permanent editors.$^{(ACM2010b)}$ Issues exist for every quarter since Fall 1994, with a few extra, mid-Summer, issues.$^{(ACM2010c)}$

## List of editors-in-chief

| # | Editor-In-Chief | Start of term | End of term |
| 1 | Saveen Reddy | 1994 | 1994 |
| 2 | Lorrie Faith Cranor | 1994 | 1996 |
| 3 | John Cavanos | 1996 | 1998 |
| 4 | Lynellen D. S. Perry | 1998 | 2001 |
| 5 | Bill Stevenson | 2001 | 2005 |
| 6 | Jerry Guo | 2006 | 2009 |
| 7 | Chris Harrison | 2009 | 2012 |
| 8 | Peter Kinnaird and Inbal Talgam | 2012 | 2013 |
| 9 | Inbal Talgam and Sean Follmer | 2013 | 2015 |
| 10 | Jennifer Jacobs and Okke Schrijvers | 2015 | 2017 |
| 11 | Gierad Laput and Diane Golay | 2017 | 2019 |
| 12 | Diane Golay | 2019 | 2021 |
| 13 | Karan Ahuja | 2021 | 2022 |
| 14 | Karan Ahuja and Jiayi Li | 2022 | 2023 |
| 15 | Jiayi Li | 2023 | present |

## List of editors (past and current)

| 1 | Department Editors |
| # | Marinka Zitnik, Finn Kuusisto, Jay Patel, Adrian Scoica, Apoorvaa Singh, Somdip Dey, Abhishek Bhattacharya, Rohit Goyal, Ashok Rao, Claudia Schulz, Poornima Ks, Oana Niculaescu [Alumni:] Vaggelis Giannikas, Arka Bhattacharya, Bryan Knowles, Derek Bronish, James Stanier, Rob Simmons, Dr. Anirban Basu, Ben Deverett, Daniel Gooch, Debarka Sengupta, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Shawn Freeman, Luigi De Russis, John Kloosterman, Darshit Patel, Kun Jin |
| 2 | Feature Editors |
| # | Erin Carson, Ryan Kelly, Michael Zuba, Richard Gomer, Billy Rathje, Hanieh Moshki, Virginie Lerays, Malay Bhattacharyya, Jed Brubaker, Hannah Pileggi, Ophir Friedler, Henri Maxime Demoulin, Raiful Hasan |
| 3 | Digital Content Editors |
| # | Pedro Lopes |
| 4 | Web Editors |
| # | Shelby Solomon Darnell |
| 5 | Managing Editors |
| # | Ronald B. Krisko (06/1994-10/1996) |
| 6 | Editor for Reviews |
| # | Sarah Kahl (2001-2002) |

## Relaunch

The magazine was originally titled Crossroads, but in May 2010, it was given a makeover led by then editor-in-chief Chris Harrison and the title was replaced by the pseudo-acronym "XRDS". Prior to the relaunch, the format of the magazine was similar to that of its cousin for ACM professional members, the Communications of the ACM, where articles are summaries of research papers. With the Summer 2010 issue of XRDS, ACM inaugurated a completely revamped edition of the magazine. Targeted to both graduate and undergraduate students contemplating computing careers, the newly redesigned XRDS offers breaking news and information, practical career advice, and first-hand stories and profiles of people in the computing field.