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(ACM 2010) 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.(ACM 2010b) Issues exist for every quarter since Fall 1994, with a few extra, mid-Summer, issues.(ACM 2010c)
List of editors-in-chief # Editor-in-chief Start of term End of term1Saveen Reddy199419942Lorrie Faith Cranor199419963John Cavanos199619984Lynellen D. S. Perry199820015Bill Stevenson200120056Jerry Guo200620097Chris Harrison200920128Peter Kinnaird and Inbal Talgam201220139Inbal Talgam and Sean Follmer2013201510Jennifer Jacobs and Okke Schrijvers2015201711Gierad Laput and Diane Golay2017201912Diane Golay2019202113Karan Ahuja2021202314Karan Ahuja and Jiayi Li2022202315Jiayi Li2022202516Julia Gersey2025Present
Current Editorial Board 1Feature Editors#Murtaza Ali, Sejal Bhalla, Poojita Garg, Srijan Pandey, Prena Ravi, Jack Thoene, Jessica Yauney2Department Editors#Sai Varun Chandrashekar (Updates), Fiona Herzog (Events), Pavithra Sripathanallur Murali (Hello World), Lynette Hui Xian Ng (Pointers), Frank Schotanus (Milestones)3Senior Editor#Denise Doig
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.
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