Monday August 28, 2000 AdCom will meet at the Handlery Hotel, Union Square,  San Francisco.

 3. Welcome and Introductions
 4. Secretary's Report -- Attendance  Asad Abidi
 5.  Treasurer’s Report  Dave Hodges
 6.  Meetings Committee Report   Mark Horowitz
 7.  Chapters Committee Report Jan Van der Spiegel
 8.  Publications Committee Report  Dick Jaeger
 9.  Awards Committee Report Dick Jaeger
10. Membership Committee Report Steve Kosonocky
11. Sister Society Agreement VDE/ITG  Charlie Sodini
12. Sensors Counci Report Bernard Boser
13. Educational Activities Committee Report Kevin O’Connor
14. Executive Office Report Anne O’Neill
15. New Technical Committees Asad Abidi
16. Next AdCom Meeting Bruce Wooley
17. New Business
18. Adjournment Bruce Wooley
19. Record of Electronic Ballots since 28 August 1999

1. Approved decisions

Motion 1: To approve the minutes of 28 August 1999.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 2: To technically cosponsor TSA-VLSI 2001.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 3: To technically cosponsor for the year 2000 and 2002, the Asia-Pacific ASIC.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 4: To the fund the Asia-Pacific ASIC with a $10,000 grant.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 5: To fund an outstanding chapter of the year award with dates for evaluation and review to be determined by the Chapters Committee. The motion passed without dissent. Details are in the body of the minutes.

Motion 6:  To establish a page budget for the JSSC for 2001 of 2100 pages.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 7:  To authorize an allocation of up to $ 125,000 to produce a merged JSSC / ISSCC master index including hyperlinked citations, hyperlinked references and new subject index,  and to cover the cost of conversion of the ISSCC Slide Supplements in addition to the conversion of the Digest.  The motion passed without dissent. More details are in the body of the minutes.

Motion 8:  To fund membership expenses for 2000 as forecast at $42K.  The original budget  of $25.8 as understood in mid 1999 did not include AdCom election expenses and other expenses.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 9:   To join the Sister Society Agreement with VDE/DGE.  The motion passed.

Motion 10:  To fund $25K for a Educational on-line Video-on-Demand and CD of the ISSCC short course for 2001. The motion passed without dissent.

2. Action Items

Pending action items from the 27 August 1999 meeting

AI 8-99 C.  Anne O'Neill will develop, with meetings committee approval, a questionnaire for  attendees of SSCS sponsored and technically co-sponsored meetings to learn how the attendees view the quality of the meeting and how they rank it with other meetings that they may attend.

AI 8-99  I.  T.R. Viswanathan will investigate MOSIS  funding issues at CAS, and make a recommendation whether SSCS should contribute to this program.

New Action items from 6 February 2000 meeting

AI 2-00 A. AdCom members are to forward to John Corcoran, ideas for better serving members with Society surplus.

3. Welcome and Introductions:

The meeting was called to order by SSCS President Bruce Wooley.

4. Secretary's Report:  Asad Abidi

A. Roll Call:
(a) Voting members present:
 

Asad Abidi	Anantha Chandrakasan	Sergio Bambi
Gerhard Fettweis	Ebby Friedman	Dave Hodges
Mark Horowitz	Dick Jaeger	Steve Kosonocky
Chris Mangelsdorf	Toshiaki Masuhara	Kevin O’Connor
Willy Sansen	Charlie Sodini	Christer Svenssen
Bob Swartz	Lew Terman	Rudy Van der Plassche
Jan Van der Spiegel	T.R. Viswanathan	Neil Weste
	Bruce Wooley

(b) Voting members absent:
 

none

(c) Non-voting members present:
 

Bill Biddermann	Bernard Boser	Jonathan David
Rahesh Kumar	Moon-Key Lee	Steve Lewis
Anne O’Neill	Stan Schuster	Tim Tredwell
John Trnka	Kwang S. Yoon

(d) Guests:

Cary Y. Yang, President EDS


B. The minutes of the 27 August, 1999 SSCS AdCom meeting were distributed earlier in the fall by Secretary Asad Abidi.
 Motion 1: To approve the minutes of 27 August 1999.  The motion passed without dissent.

5.  Treasurer’s Report:  Dave Hodges  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

• SSCS will close the 1999 fiscal year with positive financial results.  (A final accounting from IEEE headquarters was not available when this report was prepared.)  With an overall budget of about $2.1M in income and expense, we will have at least a small operating surplus, compared with a budgeted deficit of $71K.  Details are shown in attached files.
• The interest plus appreciation shown in the budget is a conservative estimate.  Some costs are not recorded yet for the CD-ROM. The meetings category includes accumulated results of ISSCC for 1995-99 years, for all of the audits for these five years of annual meetings closed in 1999.  ISSCC financial results are summarized below for the past several years.  ISSCC plus other much smaller meetings represent about 60% of both income and expense for SSCS.
• Our second largest financial commitment is to the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, amounting to about 30% of the SSCS annual budget.  Priority is on publishing all finally accepted papers without delay.  For 1999, this was accomplished within the budgeted page count; however, costs were above budget.  With a boost from the increased nonmember subscription rate, JSSC still produced an operating surplus.
• The AdCom category in the first chart of the attachment includes costs of the executive office (about half of the total) as well as the chapters, distinguished lecture series, awards expenses, and AdCom’s own meeting expenses. CDROM publication adds a big expense for 1999, but preliminary indication is that we will recover most of this cost from sales.  We should consider most of these to be discretionary expenses under direct control of AdCom.
The SSCS remains in excellent financial health, with assets approaching $3M.  The 11 year record is shown in deetail in attached spreadsheets.  The adopted 2000 operating budget, as approved by AdCom, and preliminary 2001 budget, are shown on the spreadsheets.

A. ISSCC  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

B. Syposium on VLSI Circuits  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

C. CICC Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

D. Other Technical Cosponsorship

Three meetings were presented for SSCS technical cosponsorship:
 

2001 VLSI-TSA  International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications www.erso.itri.org.tw/VLSI-TSA/ April 18 - 20, 2001  Taipei Taiwan, R.O.C. Paper Deadline: October 20, 2000 General Chairman: Tak Ning Program Chair:   Ran-Hong Yan Lucent Technology Holmdel NJ Tel:   +1 732 949 7695 Email:  rhy@lucent.com	AP-ASIC 2000 Asia-Pacific Conference on ASICs  www.ap-asic.org 28-30 August 2000 Cheju, Korea Deadline for submission of camera-ready pdf papers: 30 March 2000 Contact:  AP-ASIC’00  Research Institute of ASIC Design  Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Phone  +82 2 361 3523  Fax:  +82 2 364 8162  E-mail:  asic2000@ap-asic.org
	AP-ASIC 2002 Asia-Pacific Conference on ASICs  7-9 August 2002 tentative Taipei, Taiwan

Motion 2: To technically cosponsorship TSA-VLSI 2001.  The motion passed without dissent.

Motion 3: To technically cosponsorship for the year 2000 and 2002, the Asia-Pacific ASIC.  The motion passed without dissent.

E. Funding the  Asia-Pacific ASIC
 Moon-Key Lee and Kwang S. Yoon presented plans for the second Asia-Pacific ASIC. Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

Motion 4: To the fund the 2000 Asia-Pacific ASIC with a $10,000 grant.  The motion passed without dissent.

7.  Chapters Report: Jan Van der Spiegel Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

A. Chapters Committee Membership
The current membership of the Chapters Committee includes: Sergio Bampi (Region 9)
Jonathan David (Region 6), Chris Mangelsdorf (Region 1), Toshiaki Masuhara (Region 10)
Eric Vittoz (Region 8), Jan Van der Spiegel (coordinator)
B. Update on new chapter formation
Currently there are 30 SSCS chapters with 9 new chapters since August ‘99.
1. Beijing SSCS Chapter (Prof. Z.H. Wang)
2. Bulgaria (CAS/SSC - Dr. Mladenov)
3. Germany (SSCS - Dr. H. Blume, Aachen)
4. Greece CAS/SSCS (A. Skodras)
5. Minsk Belarus SSCS (Poland section) (S. Mulyarchik)
6. New South Wales - Australia (CAS/SSC - N. Weste)
7. Novosibirsk student SSCS chapter (I. Novikov, Novosibirsk State Tech. Univ.)
8. U.K. and Scotland (J. Brown)
9. Ukraine (ED/MTT/CPMT/SSC) (N. Voitovich)


Looking at new chapters per region shows strong growth in Region 8 with 7 new chapters and moderate growth in Region 10 with 2 new chapters. The Region 8, division I & IV meeting last September helped with the growth and development of new chapters in that region.
 

  Geographical distribution:
 

Region(s)	Number of chapters
1- 6 (USA)	7
7 (Canada)	2
8 (Europe)	16
10 (Far East)	5
9 (Latin America)	Porto Alegre being formed

There are 3 student chapters.
 

Roster of current chapters with their chairs:
 

Atlanta (CAS/SSC - M. Brooke, P. Allen)	Montreal (M. Sawan)
Baltimore (ED/SSC), Paul Potyraj	Nizhny, Novgorod (Russia) (EDS/MTT/AP/CPMT - Y. Belov)
Beijing, Z. Wang	Novosibirsk (EDS/MTT/COM/CPMT - Boris Kapilevich)
Benelux, M. Steyaert	Novosibirsk student chapter, Ilya L. Novikov
Boston, Bruce Hecht	NSW-Australia (CAS/SSC),  Weste
Bulgaria (CAS/SSC), Mladenov	Ottawa (SSCS/CAS/EDS), Ken Schultz
Chicago (SSC/ED/CS) N. Phoenix	Santa Clara, John Merrill
Dallas (Paul Yu)	Seoul, Korea (SSCS/EDS), Moon Lee
Finland/Estonia (SSC/SP/CAS), Vello Kukk	Taipei, C. K. Wang
Germany, Blume	U.K and Rep. Ireland, M. P. Kennedy
Greece (CAS/SSC), Skodras	U.K and Scotland, J. Brown
Iran student Chpt Sharif Univ, Fotowat	Ukraine (ED/MTT/CPMT/SSC), N. Voitovich
Japan, H. Ishikawa	West Switzerland, C. Eng
Los Angeles, Asad Abidi	Yugoslavia (SSCS/EDS), Ninoslav Stojadinovic
Minsk Belarus, Mulyarchik	Zurich, Qiutung Huang

There are recent inquiries about SSCS chapter formation from the following areas:
1. Bombay,
2. Chile,
3. Campinas Brazil,
4. Israel
5. Japan
6. Lithuania,
7. San Diego,
8. Shanghai
9. Uruguay
10. Philadelphia


C. Proposal for an “Outstanding Chapter Award”

For the following reasons the Chapters committee proposes and Outstanding Chapter Award.
• To acknowledge the outstanding work of chapter chairs
• To show SSCS cares about chapters
• To motivate other chapters to follow best practices
• To advertise chapters and stimulate new chapter formation
 
Proposal
• The SSCS Outstanding Chapter award will be given to one or more chapters which have shown consistently excellent leadership and outstanding initiative in organizing activities.
• Selection will be based on several factors: the quality and quantity of activities and programs, the accrual of practical benefits for local members, demonstrations of successful outreach to the professional community, and growth in chapter size.
• The award will be based on programs organized during the period of June 1 to May 31.
Nomination can be by: members of the chapters committee, members of AdCom, any SSCS member
Nominations will be due by 1 July*, using a nomination form (available on the web)

Selection will be by the Chapters committee:

They will review and rank-order the nominations and recommend a nominee(s) to AdCom.  AdCom votes on the nominee during the summer AdCom meeting. The preference is for one award and not more than two awards will be given annually upon recommendation of the chapters committee. A chapter cannot receive an award more than once every three years.


Award

The award will be given to during the week of the ISSCC and consist of a certificate or a plaque and a check for $1,000 for use of chapters activities.


Motion 5:  To fund an SSCS "Outstanding Chapter of the Year" Award
 

The SSCS Outstanding Chapter award will be given to a chapter that has shown consistently excellent leadership and outstanding initiative in organizing activities. Selection will be based on several factors: the quality and quantity of activities and programs, the accrual of practical benefits for local members, demonstrations of successful outreach to the professional community, and growth in chapter size. The award will be based on programs organized during the period of 1 July to 30 June.*

Nominations for the award can be made by members of the SSCS Chapters Committee, SSCS AdCom members, or any individual SSCS member. Nominations need to be made using the Chapters Award Nomination form available on the SSCS website. All nominations need to be received by 1 July. The chapters committee will review all nominations and rank-order them based on the criteria listed above. The chapters committee will recommend a nominee to AdCom, for approval by its voting members during the summer meeting.

The award will be given to a Chapter Representative during the week of the ISSCC. The award will consist of a certificate and a check of $1,000. As a general rule, one award will be granted each year, though the chapters committee will have the discretionary power to recommend two awards in an exceptional year, or forgo the presentation of an award if no qualified candidate is available. A chapter cannot receive an award more than once every three years.

 
*The dates shown in the these minutes were not part of the original motion.  These dates were finalized by the chapters committee after the AdCom meeting as AdCom requested at the time of the original motion.

The motion passed without dissent.


D. Other issues
 

Mr. Van der Spiegel reported his participation in the Region 8 Div. I & IV Chapters meeting held 12 September 1999 in Belgium.  Attended by about 60 chapters chairs, the meeting provided an opportunity to explore joint chapter formation and contributed to the strong growth of chapters in Region 8.

The second SSCS Chapters meeting in SF is scheduled 9 February 2000 (12pm in room Pacific I). 18 participants are expected.  The focus includes:  Best chapter practices; successes and challenges and the gathering of  feedback from chapters chairs.

Mr. Van der Spiegel acknowledges the contributions of Lew Terman and Anne O’Neill.

A. JSSC Report: Stephen Lewis, Editor  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

December and January issues were late.
Regular paper submissions continue at high level.
Publication Delay components (days):

	Most Recent 6-month Period	Previous 6-month Period
First Action	93	125
Author Revision	89	82
Publication	122	188
TOTAL	304	395

Detailed tables on Manuscripts Actions, Regular Issue Papers Published, Paper Publication Delay History and a bar chart of Mauscript Submission History are attached.

Associate Editor Changes:

Retired: Nakagome and Svensson
New:  Miyamoto and Rothermel

Mona Mittra is the IEEE Managing Editor.  Elizabeth Stewart has been hired as the new Associate Editor.

The page budget for the year 2000 is 2300.
The page count in 1999 is 2,068 (Page count in 1998 was 2352)
Page charge revenue 1 July 1999 to 31 December 1999 was $36,850

The 1998 Best Paper was awarded to Marc J. Loinaz, Kanwar Jit Singh, Andrew J. Blanksby, David A. Inglis, Kamran Azadet, and Bryan D. Ackland for their paper "A 200-mW, 3.3-V, CMOS Color Camera IC Producing 352 x 288 24-b Video at 30 Frames/s," published in the December 1998 issue of the Journal.

Motion 6:  To establish a page budget for the JSSC for 2001 of 2100 pages.  The motion passed without dissent.

B. Electronic Publishing Report: Tim Tredwell  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

1. Report of sales: Tredwell presented figures that illustrated a net revenue from production investments for recorded and predicted sales of the 89-94 CD set introduced at the February 1999 ISSCC, as well as the two products obtainable through check off on the 2000 ISSCC registration form; the recent decade set set of CDs 1989 to 98  and the archival CD / DVD album set of the JSSC available for the first time at this meeting.

2. Proposal for JSSC/ISSC Master Index: Tredwell reported on the current Master Index which contains:  1) abstracts of JSSC articles, 2) author, issue, title indexes and 3) metadata including issue, authors, title, keywords and data file of OCR recognized text of full article for use with search engine

He proposed the creatation of a merged JSSC / ISSCC Master Index with several enhancements:

• References
• Extract from articles and place underneath abstract
• Hyperlink to corresponding abstracts of ISSCC and JSSC
• Citations (within JSSC and ISSCC)
• Extract from database of references and place underneath abstract
• Hyperlink to corresponding abstracts of ISSCC and JSSC
• New subject index using current controlled vocabulary keywords
• Automatic extraction using key-word search of JSSC and ISSCC
• Manual sorting by indexer to remove “hits” on keywords that are not subject of article
• Similar to Circuits and Systems CD set (although Circuits and Systems does not have full-text OCR metadata for searching)

Motion 7:  To authorize an allocation of up to $125,000 to produce a merged JSSC / ISSCC master index including hyperlinked citations, hyperlinked references and new subject index,  and to cover the cost of conversion of the ISSCC Slide Supplements in addition to the conversion of the Digest.

The new master index will be used in:

•  ISSCC CD set
•  DVD of the merged ISSCC / JSSC
•  Inclusion with the JSSC CD set for future sales
•  IEEE Xplore web posting of JSSC / ISSCC

This  $125,000 is in addition to the original $110K for a CD archival collection of ISSCC Digests 1955-2002 that was allocated on 28 August 1999.  The component options of this $125,000 allocation are:

ISSCC references, citations & database            ~ $25K
ISSCC slide supplement conversion                  ~ $20K
JSSC references, citations & database              ~ $55K
Subject indexing (ISSCC, JSSC)                      ~ $20K
Merged ISSCC / JSSCC DVD - increment     ~  $5K

The motion passed without dissent.

3. Web Posting of the JSSC and ISSCC IEEEXplore

IEEE will be asking financial contributions from societies to post their archival issues.
We received these estimates from IEEE for the JSSC:

$55,300	Metadata import    Only $6K would be required if do new ISSCC/JSSC Master Index
$5,600	Design SSCS interface         $33K pro-rated over 6  societies
$15,000	Translate data from DVD     Will probably be less if we do new master index -- databases are compatible.
$30K - $40K	Total ~ for ISSCC & JSSC with new master index
(JSSC)~ $76K (ISSCC) $50K	Total ~ without new master index

It is recommend that SSCS plan on porting ISSCC & JSSC to Explore in 2001.

4. Budget plans for 2002 :We will propose for 2002 expenditure the following projects:

a.  Electronic conversion and database          $125K - $160K
 (including references, citations, subjects)
 of the VLSI Symposium for availability
 in 2002 as a VLSI CD set and as part of
 the merged JSSC / ISSCC / VLSI DVD

 b. Web posting of the ISSCC & JSSC          $40K - $60K
 electronic archive on IEEE Explore
 for availability in 2002

c.  1999 / 2000 JSSC annual CD                    $60K

Mr. Jaeger reminded AdCom that Fellows nominations are due March 15.

Mr. Jaeger will check with IEEE awards office if nominations for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Field award have been completed in time for the January 31 deadline.  If none have arrived, Mr. Jaeger will request an extension and pursue completion of nominations of previously suggested candidates.
 

Mr. Kosonocky reported on Society membership growth, membership promotions, membership retention, and expenses for 1999 and 2000.

Motion 8: To fund membership expenses for 2000 as forecast at $42K.  The original budget  of $25.8 as understood in mid 1999 did not include AdCom election expenses and other expenses.  The motion passed without dissent.

Mr. Kosonocky reported on an August '99 action item to seek joint memberhip promotions with CAS.  CAS is in the middle of a reorganization and would like to postpone deciding on joint promotions.

Mr. Kosonocky led the AdCom proposed funding a student chapter leader to come to AdCom once a year and lead a Student/Gold gathering at ISSCC.  Members discouraged this inititiative;  AdCom meetings were thought as not very  interesting or appropriate for student members.

Ongoing activities include:

• Continue new member welcome letter
• Continue membership presence in the newsletter

- senior member award recognition
- membership report as appropriate
• Membership promotions

-Continue supportintg both at ISSCC/IEDM
- Generic package for others w/little staff support
• Send SSCS membership poster to all  tudent branches
• Put online survey on hold

- Coordinate with IEEE activities

IEEE Germany Section and the Communications Society initiated the Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG.  VDE is the German National EE Association, and ITG is their Information Technology Society.  An umbrella agreement between IEEE and VDE is in place.

The SSCS VDE/ITG Sister Society Agreement consists of a mutual exchange of privileges on

• Conference paper submissions
• Conference registration at member rate
• Appropriate form of co-sponsorship of conferences
• Same admission (if any) for Distinguished Lecture events.
• VDE/ITG members can subscribe to ComSoc publications at reduced sister society rates (which are higher than ComSoc member rates)

The IEEE Communications, CAS, Information Theory have signed the sister society agreement with VDE/ITG.  The Computer and Signal Processing Societies have rejected the sister society agreement because of concerns about offering member rates at conferences.

Motion 9: That SSCS join the Sister Society Agreement with VDE/ITG. The motion carried.

Financial Implications: Minimal; some ITG members will register at the IEEE member rate instead of the non-member rate for SSCS.

12.  Sensors Council Report:  Bernard Boser

The Sensors Council is planning to initiate a new Journal with the first issue expected in about a year.  A proposal is going forward for IEEE to loan the council $100,000 at no interest, with repayment expected in 6 years after publication of the first issue.
Elsevier has approached IEEE with an offer of slightly reduced subscription rate to members of the Council. IEEE TAB will address this issue. 

13. Education Activities Committee Report: Kevin O’Connor.

A.  Report on CD-ROM of Short Course from ISSCC 2000   -- Tim Tredwell Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]
 
Tredwell reported on the status of audio and video-taping of the short course presentation for the CD.  The taping requirements have been arranged  through Marriott for  $ 2,316.  That includes digital audio recording and one camera  recording analog video. They may upgrade to two cameras digital recording for IEEE.

Costs for the Production of the Short Course CD are currently quoted as:
 

$8,800	data preparation
$1,650	graphics
$600	mastering
$11,050	Total non-recurring expenses


 

$900	1,000 units replication
$500	1-800 support
$2,430	packaging
$3,830	Total expenses based on quantity

Total cost for production, not including the taping would be $14,880 or a unit cost of $14.88.

References cited by the speakers are: 17 from Cressler, 11 from Podell, 33 from Larson and still awaiting the list from Gilbert.  The slide formats of the speakers are: PDF from Cressler, PowerPoint from Larson, and Allstot has Gilbert's and Podell's but they still need to be checked.

Sales Status:
The CD has initially been offered only to short course attendees at $50 over the price of the course.  Of the 344 attendees, 274 have chosen to purchase the CD (80%), while 70 have declined (20%).  That produces revenues of $13,700 versus a total fixed cost of $17,196 for 1,000 CDs. Marketing  through SSCS newsletter and web site start after conference should generate additional sales.  At a suggested price is $ 200, we would need to sell  just 17 more discs to break even.   We expect about 200 additional  sales which would yield a net surplus with toal revenues of  $36,504.
 

Tasks to be Completed:

Obtain remainder of material from speakers (TR)
Electronic copy of presentation (Podell, Gilbert
Bibliography (Gilbert)
Sign contract with Sony (Anne)
IEEE copyrights and catalog numbers (IEEE Ed Activities?)
Duplicate tapes, send to Sony and IEEE (TJT)
Obtain copies of articles listed in references, send to Sony for scanning (TJT & TR)
Obtain pictures and bios of speakers (TJT)
Finalize disc design and links, resolve cross-platform issues (TJT)
Review disc and finalize quantities (all)
Advertise in SSCS newsletter and on web (Anne)
Mail to attendees (Sony or IEEE using mailing list)
Work with IEEE Ed Activities regarding demo disk (TJT / TR)


B.  Short Course from ISSCC 2001 on CD-ROM

The Education Activities committee is pursuing alternate vendors for the short course CD. For 2001 it is considering using the IEEE Education department's on-line Video-on Demand which also delivers the CDs.  The program might offer  Continuing Education Units [CEU] for a verified successful completion of a course. This is a professional accrediting program not academic credits of engineering colleges and universities.

Motion 10: To fund $25K for a Educational on-line Video-on-Demand and CD of the ISSCC short course for 2001. The motion passed.


C. History Center:

As a result of a proposal of the Education Activities Committee the AdCom discussed funding the IEEE History Center to suggest specific SSCS directed work on SSCS history.  AdCom  members advocated that SSCS come up with more specific proposal before funding.  The chair of Education Activities Committee removed the proposal from the table. 

Ms . O'Neill provided an overview of Society files available to AdCom members on the web.  The home page at www.sscs.org/info/ has a left column menu bar of 8 items that appears on all primary level pages:  the linked topics are About SSCS, Awards, Chapters, Journal, Meetings, News, Nominations and Elections, and Other Products.

The About SSCS contains information of interest to AdCom members including:

The rosters of AdCom members

The agendas of upcoming AdCom meetings

Past minutes

Constitution and Bylaws of the Society

The Society Review from November 1998

The Society's field of interest.

In addition there is information about the History of the Council and of the Society and the complete text of the Society's membership brochure including links to an on-line membership application form.

Other pages reviewed were:

the Journal page which provides information for authors as well as subscribers

the Meetings page which lists dates, locations and author deadlines along with links to conferences URLs for all SSCS sponsored and technically cosponsored meetings.  For meetings that are not sponsored by the society but are of technical interest to members, there are links to those meetings' home pages, although no details beyond the meetings' name are repeated on the SSCS meetings page.

the News page which provides links to all newsletters since 1996 and lists the deadline for submissions for the upcoming issue.

The IEEE logo in the lower right hand corner of each page is a link to similar information with an IEEE wide perspective e.g. the IEEE logo on the About page links to a TAB page of hyperlinks to other IEEE societies' homepages, the IEEE logo on the Journal page links to information about other IEEE technical publications, the IEEE logo on the Meetings page links to the TAB database search of IEEE meetings, the IEEE logo on the News page links to the IEEE publications department list of links to other society newsletters.

Ms. O'Neill also provided metrics from April 1999 to the present, on traffic in financial transactions, web updates, and member inquiries.

15. New Technical Committees: Asad Abidi  Attachments. [1.5M pdf file view with Acrobat Reader]

Mr Abidi presented the charter of the newly formed Technical Committees. The current membership includes himself, Neil Weste, and Gerhard Fettweiss. Through discussion with SSCS membership, the Committee will forecast emerging trends in the solid-state circuits profession, and make available this information to entities such as the SSCTC Workshop, ISSCC Emerging Technologies Committee, the Meetings Committee, and the Education committee, which are responsible for starting up workshops, special sessions, and conferences to address precisely these topics. At present, these bodies are disjoint, and there exists no common venue to compile emerging technical trends. Much of the emerging interest is in inter-disciplinary areas.

16. Next AdCom meeting:

The August 2000 SSCS AdCom meeting will be held Monday August 28 at the Handlery Hotel, Union Square,  San Francisco.  The ISSCC Executive Committee is expect to meet in Vancouver Saturday, August 26, 2000.

17. New Business:

Chris Mangelsdorf, Bob Swartz and John Corcoran challenged AdCom to suggest better ways of serving members in line with the core purpose and technical expertise of the Society and utilize its reserves.  John Corcoran agreed to collect suggestions in order to presents topics for further discussion at the August AdCom.

Action Item A: AdCom members are to forward to John Corcoran, ideas for better serving members with Society surplus.

18. Adjournment: Bruce Wooley.

    The meeting adjourned at 5:20 PM.

On 3 February 2000 the AdCom approved by electronic ballot the funding for the awarding of two SSCS Predoctoral Fellowships for the 1999-2000 year.

 
Respectfully submitted,

Anne O'Neill, Executive Director SSCS,
Asad Abidi, Secretary, SSCS AdCom,
7 April 2000