Activity Report of the IEEE/CSS IAC to BoG

Eduardo F. Camacho

Dec 4, 2003

 

 

 

    1. The committee met at the ACC in Denver (June 4, 2003) with a good attendance. The Committee discussed mostly the issue of the Control around the Globe initiative ( publishing a series of reports about the state of control in different countries of the world to be published in the IEEE CSS CSM under the heading of "Control around the Globe") The results of the discussion was:
      1. The IAC still believes this idea is very important for the main objectives of the Committee.
      2. The new IEEE CSM editor (Dennis Bernstein) who attended the Committee though that the initiative was interesting and should be pursued.
      3. Several members of the Committee would act as a Editorial Committee for the series (seeking and tracking contributions, suggesting modifications, helping to prepare some guidelines ....).
      4. The reports were going to be prepared by one or few authors rather than a chapter.
      5. The reports should have a more journalistic approach than a mere description of groups, people and research lines.
      6. The first report commissioned to Alexander Frakov (Russia). A first draft of this report has been produced and was discussed. Although the report had many good points, it needed polishing. I contacted A. Frakov with comments of how to improve the report.
      7. I have contacted people in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica and Uruguay to prepare a report for their countries.
    2. There are some problem for Iranian citizens in the IEEE as their memberships are being cancelled. IEEE is following US Government Policy in cancelling those memberships. Iranian "former" members are no longer qualified for support for hotel/registration at the CCA in Turkey. A number had applied for that support and are now being turned down. This was discussed at the IAC meeting and the Committee hopes that the situation improves so that this restrictions can be lifted.

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