Stan Schuster (left) and Steven Garverick (absent for photo) are the recipients of the grateful appreciation of the Solid-State Circuits Society, expressed by SSCS President Charlie Sodini (right), for their eight years of service organizing Solid-State Circuits Technology Workshops.

Stan Schuster and Steven Garverick were honored at the SSCS Administrative Committee meeting last February for serving as co-chairs of the Solid-State Circuits Technology Workshop program for close to a decade, going back to the days when the Society existed as a Council. The workshops, scheduled twice a year, were designed as small gatherings on a specific technical area, often an emerging technology, to ensure that dialog among participants was a primary feature. Workshops left the spark of ideas in participants' minds and sometimes the vision of the depth of challenges before them, but never in a published proceedings - you had to be there. Programs of some past workshops are still listed in the history section on the Society's Web pages.
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Here is a partial list of the technology topics the workshop series featured:

• Inplications of Near-Limit CMOS on Circuits and Applications (Feb. '03)
• Analog Telecom Access Circuits and Concepts (Feb. '02)
• Circuits for 2.5- and 3-G Wireless Systems (Feb. '01)
• Low-Power Circuits (Oct. '01)
• Biomedical Electronics Workshop (Oct. '00)
• Design for Multi-GigaHertz Processors (Feb. '00)
• MEMS Interface Circuits (Oct. '99)
• Internal Cool Electronics (Oct. '98)
• CMOS Imaging Technology (Feb. '96)

The Society will continue to organize workshops, but in conjunction with existing conferences. Combining workshop events with conferences makes attendance more convenient for many participants and ensures the success essential for continuation of this kind of program.