1. Steve Woods Sr. Manager, Creative Services 5 February 2014
Computing Now
Steve Woods
Sr. Manager, Creative Services
5 February 2014

2. A Brief History…
Launched in May 2008 under founding EIC Dejan Miloicic, primarily to consolidate efforts and promote CS publications
Started with magazines with plans to expand to transactions, conferences, and STCs
In 2010, we added podcasts and videos to CN
By 2011, included Trans on Computers with multimedia content
Oct 2012, site redesigned to include topic channels, featuring articles, blogs, white papers
Jan 2013, Cecilia Metra took over as EIC. Added Education and Conferences departments to the site
Pending IT development, we hope to add the calendar of all CS conferences, including CFPs, deadlines, etc, in 2014

3. Content Types
Monthly Themes – articles from mags, journals, and proceedings
What’s New – features from all mags, highlighted in newsletters
Content channels – topically arranged, new & aggregated content
Podcasts – most from mag columns, but some original
Videos – authors, events, interviews, keynotes
Blogs – CS volunteers, directors, authors, consultants
Calls for Papers – all mags, journal links, STCs
Magazine homepages – featured content, current and back issues
Education and Conferences – tutorials, webinars, keynotes, calls
News – podcast, newsfeed, interviews

4. Monthly Usage:

5. Page Views, Year Over Year Average Time on Homepage
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Jan
29,321
48,624
43,694
57,937
104,583
Feb
33,214
45,541
51,814
79,342
95,570
Mar
36,387
44,285
50,051
85,053
88,221
Apr
31,030
45,880
50,505
76,569
81,867
May
30,769
39,325
41,503
73,575
81,523
June
16,552
38,347
40,519
43,928
65,235
84,687
July
8,005
36,660
38,551
44,091
70,729
94,770
Aug
8,986
33,061
41,513
45,397
92,083
85,494
Sept
9,224
38,824
50,588
44,998
88,708
87,650
Oct
11,329
47,066
47,023
46,329
66,978
90,011
Nov
12,153
39,424
43,199
49,592
75,083
77,004
Dec
11,629
33,308
36,221
40,051
72,400
68,693
Total
77,878
429,420
523,279
553,964
903,692
1,040,073
% Increase
21.86%
5.86%
63.10%
163.10%
Average Time on Homepage
2013
Jan
2:18
Feb
2:26
Mar
2:30
Apr
1:44
May
1:42
June
1:50
July
1:33
Aug
1:39
Sept
1:45
Oct
1:36
Nov
1:43
Dec
1:38

6. Visitors
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Jan
18,947
16,511
14,737
20,340
45,431
Feb
10,216
14,575
17,269
28,786
40,903
Mar
11,351
14,678
17,662
30,702
37,295
Apr
8,981
14,609
17,546
28,253
33,814
May
8,302
13,289
14,207
27,952
34,828
June
4,664
11,766
13,719
13,526
24,582
35,867
July
2,018
11,450
13,255
13,309
27,913
43,256
Aug
1,736
9,690
14,274
14,617
34,281
37,318
Sept
2,127
10,687
17,936
15,441
33,651
37,424
Oct
3,372
13,780
16,985
14,984
23,813
39,256
Nov
3,657
13,296
15,158
17,124
30,340
33,014
Dec
3,497
10,127
11,767
13,440
29,395
30,055
Total
21,071
138,593
176,756
185,873
340,008
448,461
% Increase
27.50%
5.16%
82.90%

7. Notable Recent Content
Nov 12: Modern Programming Languages
Sept 12: High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud
Sept 13: Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Sensing
June 13: Indoor Positioning and Navigation
AI’s 10 to Watch 2013 (8241; 3385; 1650; 2610; 1006; 1170)
Is Everything We Know about Password Stealing Wrong? (1764)
So, You Want to Start a Software Company (1722)
Self Perceptions about Software Engineering: A Survey of Scientists and Engineers (838)
Landing a Spacecraft on Mars (655)