IEEE Past-President Reflections

1. IEEE Past-President Reflections John R. Vig 2009 IEEE President and CEO 10 October 2010 Prague, Czech Republic

2. 2009 Was a Record Year • 397,001 members • Revenues = US$390M • Surplus = US$71M (=21M +50M invest’s) • Net Assets (Reserves) = US$229M • 1077 conferences (568 + 509 TCS) • >2.5M articles in IEEE Xplore (200K new articles added) • 14 Milestones dedicated; the most ever

3. >200K Volunteers + ~1K Staff

4. What Does the “IEEE President and CEO” Do? • Chairs the Board of Directors meetings • May appoint ad-hoc committees ---------------------------- • “Owns” the agenda – until the agenda is approved by the BoD • Is an ambassador for IEEE • May use his influence to make good things happen

5. 25 Ad Hoc Committees • ED Search Ad Hoc Committee • Public Visibility Ad Hoc Committee • 125th Anniversary Ad Hoc Committee • India Ad Hoc Committee • China and Emerging Markets Ad Hoc Committee • Sustainability Ad Hoc Committee • “Green” Initiatives Ad Hoc Committee • Humanitarian Ad Hoc Committee • IEEE as a Model Global Association Ad Hoc Comm. • Contributions to Disaster Relief Ad Hoc Committee • IEEE Student Honor Society Ad Hoc Committee • Board Transformation Ad Hoc Committee

6. IEEE As a Business Ad Hoc Committee • Finance & Inequities Ad Hoc Committee • Advertising Ad Hoc Committee • Presentations Online Ad Hoc Committee • Technology to Reduce Travel Expenses Ad Hoc Committee • Technical Co-Sponsorship Ad Hoc Committee • OU-OU Conferences and Educational Activities Cooperation Ad Hoc Committee • Quality of Conference Articles in IEEE Xplore Ad Hoc Comm. • IT Transition Ad Hoc Committee • Eta Kappa Nu Ad Hoc Committee • Products for Practitioners Ad Hoc Committee • Executive Director’s R2A2 Ad Hoc Committee • Past-presidents’ History Ad Hoc Committee

7. 125th Anniversary Global Events Series Austin, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, London, Munich, San Jose, Tokyo With spiritual and humanitarian leader His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at Bangalore event With Abdul K. Kalam, India past-pres., Bangalore In Munich

8. IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Milestone Dedicated; Maxwell Award Presented With HRH Prince Phillip at Maxwell Award, Edinburgh

9. Inaugural IEEE Presidents’ Change the WorldCompetition • 200 entries: Winners from India, Nigeria, U.K., U.S. • Top prizes awarded at Honors Ceremony

10. I Wish I Could Have Changed… • Revenue mix (~75% from pubs & conferences; ~10% from basic dues) • Idea-generation (by both volunteers & staff), experimentation, brainstorming, risk taking (especially in publications, conferences…) • The antibodies • Speed of entering new technical areas (e.g., LS) • Tech cosponsored – fin. sponsored mix & trend • Pub’s (innovation, open access, sub-to-pub) • History of IEEE - the organization • IEEE Foundation

11. IEEE Press completes electronic editions of IEEE Press Books • 220 books available as a free member benefit • Available in IEEE Xplore • IEEE Press is profitable; 1st time since 1997

12. “the IEEE eBooks Classics member benefit accounted for more than 60% of nearly 200,000 total chapter downloads in August, so we know that members are finding and using the free books.” E-mail from Ken Moore, 8 Oct 2010

13. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein

14. Old soldiers (& presidents) never die; they just fade away?

15. 2,752,060 ~200K articles will be added this year.

16. How can anyone know what is worth reading among those articles? IEEE Technology News (ITN) will bring to IEEE members and the global community the top 1000 of the most interesting, timely, and newsworthy articles.

17. ITN will present ~0.5% of newly posted articles; ~1K/yr Articles will be condensed; in layman’s language, each with a link to the article in Xplore Weekly alerts; with ~20 items per week Free to everyone – ad supported, self-supporting ITN will present what’s hot, interesting, timely, newsworthy; and is of interest to practitioners Online only – on website, with alerts emailed to subscribers (including mobile devices & RSS) What is IEEE Technology News (ITN)?

20. Compressed Synthetic Aperture Radar Vishal M. Patel, Glenn R. Easley, Dennis M. Healy, Jr., Rama Chellappa September 11, 2010, IEEE Journal of Selected topics in Signal Processing University of Maryland researchers have developed a new data compression algorithm that is capable of producing a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) terrain map while demanding significantly less data transfer than previous technologies. SAR is a type of radar in which a series of images are combined and processed to provide a single high-resolution image; it is the technology behind many of the strikingly beautiful, high-quality images of planet surfaces that have appeared in the last several years. In a typical application of SAR, a radar antenna is attached to a moving object, such as an airplane or a satellite, and radar pulses are continually sent out and recovered after bouncing off objects. The acquired data is then combined to yield an image…

23. ITN was endorsed by five OUs at June 2010 OU series: TAB PSPB EAB MGAB PSC ITN was briefed at Public Visibility Summit, PSPB SPC, Panel of Editors and NIC meetings in April-May 2010 Brainstorming meeting was held 7-8 May 2010 Endorsements

24. Prototype Website www.ieeeTechNews.org The mobile version and RSS are operational.

25. Thanks for the memories, and, farewell!