XRDS is the ACM's magazine for students, established in 1994. It is published quarterly and invites submissions of high quality articles of interest to computer science students. For more information on the types of articles XRDS publishes, see our About page. Potential authors should read our Author Guidelines. If you are interested in submitting an article to XRDS, please contact the editorial staff at xrds@acm.org.

The magazine plans to publish articles on the following topics:

Spring 2013 (December, January, February issue) : Scientific Computing

• Article submission deadline: November 30, 2012
• Advertising deadline: January 15, 2013

Summer 2013 (June, July, August issue) : Computer Science and Creativity

• Article submission deadline: March 1, 2013
• Advertising deadline: April 15, 2013

Fall 2013 (September, October, November issue) : TBD

• Article submission deadline: June 7, 2013
• Advertising deadline: July 15, 2013

Winter 2013 (December, January, February issue) : TBD

• Article submission deadline: September 6, 2013
• Advertising deadline: October 15, 2013

Please note that submitted articles do not necessarily have to fit the theme of the issue. Themed articles are typically written by experts in the field. Student authors typically have a much better opportunity of being published if they write about the student experience, including but not limited to experiences at an internship, advice for other students about their educational careers, and activities going on at their universities or ACM chapters that are unique and of interest to students worldwide.

Additionally, in recent past issues, we have covered the following topics:

• Big Data
• Startups
• Open Government
• Neuroscience and Computing
• Green Technology
• Banking, Currency and e-Commerce
• Human computation
• Programming
• Interfaces and human-computer interaction
• Cloud computing
• The social web