SSCS AdcomAugust 12, 2013Bill Bidermann

SSCS Adcom – Report Card

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Goal StatusDouble Fellow Nominations

Pre-Doctor Achievement AwardsWinners on WebChapter Count

New Member BenefitsSocial Involvement Opportunity

Education Database Content (Webinars/DL Lectures)Conferences Indexed by ThompsonIndia/China “Workshop”/Leadership

SSCS Membership Conference DiscountStudent Involvement

SSCS Adcom – Awards/Chapters/Membership

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SSCS Adcom – Goal Tracking

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100 New Student Members - Results

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University Chapters

Solicited 44 107

Responses Women 12 49

Responses Men 15 38

May 2012 = 153 May 2013 = 184 + 98 (16?)Next Steps 98 (or more)

• Survey/Personal Interviews (Gass/Bidermann)• Measure Retention

Observation – Chapters seem to value highly – opportunity!

SSCS Adcom – New Ideas (M. Perrott, Tzi-Dar)

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Goal Leader?Highly Value Tutorials – Double the number within 3 years. Full materials only available tomembers

Members only breakout room at ISSCC, VLSI, CICC,etc. with special badges identifying members

JSSC content viewable by members one week earlier than non-0members

JSSC available one week earlier in mail/email

Starbucks cars – agreat idea – extend to other conferences

Local restaurant coupons at conferences

Mentoring/Career counseling – explicit ideas o fdiscounted registration for mentors.

Provide free stuff with new memberships for the 1st yearConference tutorials and workshop material online Broader access to IEEE Explore material (TCAS, MTT, …)One free conference registration coupon. (Make it only for a conference in a different continent from the member's location)

ISSCC Keynotes searchagle like TED talks to increase visibliiity

I think the “it’s about the people you meet” (http://sscs.ieee.org/membership.html) is quite true.

Social Networking Proposal

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IEEE Biometrics Council

India’s Big Bet on Identity: March 2012 (IEEE Spectrum) The world’s largest biometric authentication system launched

The 6th IAPR/IEEE : ICB Madrid, Spain, June 2013Keynote: Ashok Pal Singh, Deputy Director General, Unique ID Authority of India (UIDAI) “ID for a Billion”

Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Track Down the Boston Bombers (and Why Humans Are Still Better at It): (Businessweek 2013-04-19)

Biometrics CompendiumCouncil newsletterDLP program established 2 local chapters: Italy R8 & Maldives R10

Request for 2014:For SSCS to continue as a member of the IEEE Biometrics Council at $2k/year

IEEE Life Sciences Technical CommunityPurpose: “To Establish the Life Sciences as a key field of interest to IEEE and attract to IEEE professionals, researchers and other interested parties who work at the intersection of the Life Sciences with Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics”

LS Content – Based on searches in IEEE Xplore using the following 10 keywords: bioinformatics, biology, biomedical, biometrics, health, “health care”, healthcare, “life sciences”, medical, and medicine.

Request for 2014:For SSCS to be a member Life Sciences Technical Community at $15k/year

SSCS Sponsored Publications 2012 # Content

2012 # with LS Content

2012 LS %

2011 # Content

Journal of Solid State Circuits 358 15 4.2% 348 15 4.3% 337 11 3.3%Solid State Circuits Magazine 138 4 2.9% 145 4 2.8% 163 7 4.3%

International Solid-State Circuits Conference 264 25 9% 271 31 11% 269 23 9%

Journal of Solid State Circuits 358 15 4.2% 348 15 4.3% 337 11 3.3%Solid State Circuits Magazine 138 4 2.9% 145 4 2.8% 163 7 4.3%

International Solid-State Circuits Conference 264 25 9% 271 31 11% 269 23 9%