SSCS Chapter Caf

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SSCS Chapter Café

• Bruce Hecht, Jonathan David
• Jan van der Spiegel
• February 2007

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SSCS Chapter Café

• Itinerary
• Introductions (5 min)
• Chapters update Jan van der Spiegel (5 min)
• Distinguished Lecturer preview tour (15 min)
• Chapter Café format
• Round 1 (20 min)
• Chapter Stories
• Round 2 (20 min)
• One person stays at the table as the host to
  communicate the conversation

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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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SSCS Distinguished Lectures joining our luncheon

• Rinaldo Castello preview
• Dennis Fischette preview
• Ian Galton preview
• Tadahiro Kuroda preview
• Akira Matsuzawa preview
• Sreedhar Natarajan
• Bram Nauta
• Toshiaki Masuhara
• Vojin Oklobdzija
• Betty Prince preview
• Takayasu Sakurai
• Mehmet Soyuer preview
• Jan van der Spiegel
• Ken Uchida
• Albert Wang

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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 Chapter Café

• World Café Format for hosting a collective
  conversation between local IEEE Chapters and the
  Boston Section
• Originally developed by Juanita Brown and David
  Isaacs for conversational dialog in group formats
• Described in their book
• The World Café Shaping Our Futures Through
  Conversations That Matter (2005)

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Café Ideas

• The knowledge and wisdom we need are already
  present and accessible
• Intelligence emerges as the system connects to
  itself in creative ways
• Collective insight evolves from
• Honouring unique contributions
• Connecting ideas
• Listening into the middle
• Noticing deeper patterns and questions

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Questions for dialog on Chapter Activities

• What program plans do you have for the coming
  year?
• What kinds of challenges are you facing in your
  chapter?
• What opportunities are there, and how can your
  colleagues within SSCS help you succeed?
• What would it take to create change on this
  issue?
• What could happen that would enable us to feel
  energized in this situation?
• What challenges might come our way, and how might
  we meet them?
• What conversation, if begun today, could ripple
  out in a way that created new possibilities for
  the future?