Membership in the Solid-State Circuits Society grew by 8% from December 1998 to December 1999, to a total of 13,237. This puts us third in overall growth compared with all other IEEE societies, following closely behind the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society at 12% and the IEEE Communications Society at 10.5% during the same period. Clearly the growth of these societies represents industry trends, which have also been reflected in the stock prices of those companies working in those areas over the past year.
Growth in the Solid-State Circuits Society has also come from very successful promotions at our conferences. With the very kind help of Linda Dreisbach, the EDS/SSCS membership promotion at the 1999 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting this past December recruited 109 new SSCS and EDS members. With Linda's help, we've been able to continue offering staffed membership desks at our major conferences.
Have you visited the Solid-State Circuits Society Web page lately (www.sscs.org/info)? Let us know what you think. If you have any suggestions on how the Society can better serve its members or what you would like to see on the web page, send an email to sscs@ieee.org.
Congratulations are extended to the following SSCS members for their recent promotion to IEEE Senior grade:
Ching-Yuh Tsay
Jie Si
Dietrich W. Vook
Steve Kosonocky
Membership Chair
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
stevekos@us.ibm.com