SSCS Membership Report to AdCom

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SSCS MembershipReport to AdCom

• Bruce Hecht, Membership Committee
• February 2007

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SSCS Membership Offers More for 2007

• IEEE Xplore access to all 51 years of the JSSC
• Three Great Improvements
• Online access to all SSCS sponsored CONFERENCE
  articles in Xplore
• Enhanced print Quarterly News publication
• The Solid-State Circuits Digital Archive 2-DVD
  set, offered at a reduced member price of 40,
  down from the 2006 price of 150.

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ISSCC Short Course Replays from DVD at
SSCS-SeoulSeptember, 2006Story from Jan van der
Spiegel Region 10 Chapters Meeting
Chapter Vice President Andy Chung initiated
and organized a replay from DVD of the ISSCC 2005
Short course on Analog-Digital Converters by MIT
Professor Hae-Seung Lee at Korea University. With
the addition of participating chapter professors
and stop-play for QA and summary comments, the
DVD replay became an audience-friendly and
interactive learning experience.
A strong example of SSCS response to members
needs.
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SSCS Membership Stats

• Membership numbers
• 73 Industry, 15 Education
• IEEE Membership by Region
• R1-6 at -1.1 (-2.1k/189k)
• R7-10 at 2.8 (2.9k/106k)

• Society Membership
• -2.5 average drop in memberships for all IEEE
  Societies (last year -3.4)
• SSCS dropped -2.6 (last year -2.6)

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IEEE membership growswhile society memberships
declineSource IEEE Membership Development
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The Journal Leads in

• The most articles downloaded through Xplore
• Read 50 more than the next most popular
• Reader satisfaction
• 99 of SSCS members read the IEEE JSSC
• Patent citations

New with 2007 dues
Online access to JSSC Conferences included with
dues
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Enhanced Newsletter
New with 2007 dues

• FALL LAUNCH ISSUE
• "Where CMOS is Going Trendy Hype vs. Real
  Technology," by T. C. Chen at the IBM T. J.
  Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY
  (USA)
• "Overview of CMOS Technology Development in the
  MIRAI Project" by T. Masuhara at the Association
  of Super-Advanced Electronics Technologies
  (Japan) and M. Hirose at the National Institute
  of Advanced Industrial Science Technology in
  Japan.
• more
• "Moore's Law - The Genius Lives On" by Patrick
  Gelsinger at Intel.
• "The Mythology of Moore's Law Why Such a Widely
  Misunderstood 'Law' is So Captivating to So
  Many," by Tom Halfhill at Microprocessor Report
• "The Impact of Moore's Law" by Robert Keyes at
  IBM
• "The Wider Impact of Moore's Law," by David
  Liddle at U.S. Venture Partners
• "Back to the Future, Part IV Moore's Law, The
  Legend, and the Man," by Gene Meieren at Intel.
• And three Moore reprints of original articles,
• from 1965, 1975, and 1995

• Technical highlights from industry, government
  and academia.
• Also hot topics, upcoming local events, and
  award-winning ideas and people.

Quarterly print and online included with dues
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Continuing theme Future EngineersMini-initiative
on careers in solid-state circuits Consider
existing programs and next steps

• IEEE programs
• TryEngineering.com
• IEEE PBS
• Design Squad TV show

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