More Chapters and more members continue to characterize the rapidly expanding IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, it was reported to the Administrative Committee (AdCom) on 6 February. All 22 voting members of the AdCom along with more than a dozen other Society leaders met the day before the ISSCC in San Francisco. Chapters have expanded from 20 to 30 in 6 months, while membership is now over 13,000 from a start of 7,000 just four years ago and is growing at 9% annually. In addition, there were status reports on conferences and workshops, the JSSC, and many projects that are making more Society intellectual property available electronically. Full minutes of the meeting, along with background attachments and presentations, are available at: www.sscs.org/info/minutes.
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The SSCS AdCom met preceding the ISSCC. Seated l-r: John Corcoran, Gerhard Fettweis, Christer Svensson, Bob Swartz, Bruce Wooley (President), Asad Abidi (Secretary), Toshiaki Masuhara, Charlie Sodini (Vice-President), T. R. Viswanathan. Standing l-r: Mark Horowitz, Willy Sansen, Rudy van de Plassche, Steve Kosonocky, Neil Weste, Dave Hodges (Treasurer), Eby Friedman, Sergio Bampi, Anantha Chandrakasan. Top l-r: Kevin O'Conner, Dick Jaeger, Chris Mangelsdorf Missing: Lew Terman (Past President), Jan Van der Spiegel |
The AdCom has funded a new SSCS Outstanding Chapter Award to be given annually to an SSCS Chapter that has shown consistent, outstanding leadership and initiative in organizing activities. The criteria for selection will be based on:
All Chapters were notified this spring about the award and its 1 July 2000 application deadline for the first year. The AdCom will decide on the outstanding Chapter during their 27 August 2000 meeting. The $1,000 award is for chapter activities, and a Certificate of Recognition for display will also be presented during the week of the ISSCC, February 2001. More information can be obtained from: www.sscs.org/chapter/awardnews.htm.
The AdCom agreed to enter into a Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG. VDE is the German National EE Association, and ITG is its Information Technology Society. The SSCS VDE/ITG Sister Society Agreement consists of a mutual exchange of privileges on:
The Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG was initiated by the IEEE Germany Section and the IEEE Communications Society. An um-brella agreement between IEEE and VDE was already in place. The IEEE Communications, Circuits and Systems, and Information Theory Societies have already signed the Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG.
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The Publications Committee recommendations that the AdCom approved include: funding the Digital Archives of the ISSCC 1955Ð2002, improvements of indexing for both the ISSCC and JSSC electronic collections, and a page budget for the Journal of Solid State Circuits in 2001. The members of the Publications committee are l-r: Steve Lewis (JSSC Editor), Dave Hodges, Dick Jaeger (Chair), Asad Abidi, Rudy van de Plassche, Tim Tredwell. |
Preparation and production of a digital archive of ISSCC digests from 1955 to 2002 was authorized by the AdCom on 28 August 1999. At the February 2000 AdCom meeting, additional components were authorized to enhance the utility of the ISSCC CD album. This includes hyperlinked citations and references and the cost of conversion of the ISSCC Slide Supplements. The ISSCC Digital Archive is expected to be available for purchase at the 2001 ISSCC.
Improvements were also planned and funded for the JSSC subject index, including hyperlinking of the references. The result will be an improved merged JSSC/ISSCC Digest master index. The budget for the two projects is now $235K.
Continuing the successful introduction of a CD of the ISSCC Short Course for 2000, the AdCom has agreed to fund another Short Course for 2001. The CD version of the 2001 Short Course is planned to utilize the Online Video-on-Demand already available through IEEE at http://ieee.mediaplatform.com/vod/ieee/.
The SSCS technically cosponsors a select list of meetings each year. These meetings are always listed in the Events Calendar at the back of this newsletter and online at www.sscs.org/meetings/. At the February 2000 meeting, the Society agreed to technically cosponsor:
The AdCom has fiduciary responsibility for an annual budget of over $2 million with assets of over $3 million. Treasurer Dave Hodges reported on the financial health of the Society and presented a balanced preliminary budget for 2001. The page budget for the JSSC for 2001 was approved at 2,100 pages. The Journal published 2,068 pages in 1999 and 2,352 pages in 1998. The financial health of the Society continues to be excellent.
The AdCom ended its meeting with a challenge to suggest better ways of serving members in line with the core purpose and technical expertise of the Society and to take advantage of its financial health. John Corcoran agreed to collect suggestions in order to present topics for further discussion at the August AdCom. Members are welcome to propose suggestions for Society programs by emailing John at john_corcoran@agilent.com.