Suggestion from Anant Sahai
As a potential feature request, I think that there should be some
discussion with the Pub committee regarding the need for a long-lived
archive of source-code/data corresponding to plots and tables in
published transactions papers. The ideal here is "reproducible research"
as promoted by Donoho (among others) for more than a decade, and
recently promoted by an article in the IEEE Signal Processing magazine:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2009.932122
Right now, we have fragmented repositories being put up by various
groups like:
http://rr.epfl.ch/
But as the following paper from the economics community suggests, this
is a problem that journals (scholarly societies) need to address.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=931231
Our society had taken the lead a few years back in promoting Arxiv.Org
for preprints, and a decade or so back in getting all papers available
online. Maybe we need to push for having our papers be reproducible. It
is likely less of a burden for us since so many of our papers are
largely theoretical. We basically need a way to have trusted
"Supplemental Information" that accompanies the paper on Xplore. In
Nature & Science for example, such supplemental information is routinely
present and often many times the length of the published paper.
Down the line, this could even save us money if we could use this to
somehow make papers shorter. But that is not the main point.