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SSCS AdCom. (l-r) Back row: Chris Mangelsdorf, Neil Weste, Stan Schuster, Bryan Ackland. Middle row: David Hodges, Richard Jaeger, Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio, Kiyoo Itoh, Gerhard Fettweis, John Corcoran, Bernhard Boser, Mark Horowitz, Anantha Chandrakasan, Kevin O'Connor. Front row: Anne O'Neill, Jonathan David, Christer Svensson, Gary Baldwin, Charles Sodini, Bruce Wooley, Lew Terman, Ralph Wyndrum, Asad Abidi, Jan Van der Spiegel. |
The Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society met 4 February 2001 in San Francisco, before the start of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Ralph Wyndrum, IEEE Division 1 Director, provided the AdCom with an overview of the IEEE directions and challenges.
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The AdCom thanked John Trnka (right) for his outstanding service as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (1995–2001). SSCS President Bruce Wooley presented a plaque to Trnka in recognition and appreciation of his dedication. |
The AdCom made decisions on publications, conferences, and funding of a history project. It approved up to $25K for the printing and mailing of a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques covering Integrated and Nonintegrated Silicon RF and Microwave Circuits. This special issue will be of interest to many SSCS members and so will be sent to them as well as to subscribers of the Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. It is expected to be available in late 2001.
Bernhard Boser was approved as the new editor of the JSSC beginning in 2001. The AdCom approved the budgeting of 2140 pages for the Journal in 2002.
The Society will continue expanding its digital archives of key Society publications in solid-state circuits. The AdCom authorized an expenditure of up to $130K to include the full archive of the Digests of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in a merged JSSC/ISSCC/VLSI Circuits database and the printing of a DVD from it in 2002.
Anantha Chandrakasan was approved as Vice Chair of the ISSCC Program Committee. To support students' and others' travel to Society conferences, the AdCom approved up to $20K to be available as matching funds to SSCS-sponsored conferences.
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The SSCS Meetings Committee. (l-r) Stan Schuster, David Hodges, Mark Horowitz, Anantha Chandraksan, Rakesh Kumar. The AdCom approved two recommendations of the Meetings Committee: 1. Appoint Anantha Chandraksan as the Vice Chair of the ISSCC Program Committee 2. Establish matching funds to defray students' and others' travel expenses to Society-sponsored conferences. |
To help defray expenses for chapter chairs' travel to the Society Chapter meeting held each February at the ISSCC, the AdCom approved up to $10K.
Up to $15K has been approved for a Solid-State Circuits History Project. In conjunction with the IEEE History Center, the SSCS will record oral histories of prominent developers on a given topic within the broad spectrum of solid-state circuits.
The AdCom will meet again 27 August in San Francisco to conduct Society business and to elect new officers for 2002.