IEEE Accomplishments

• As EIC of IEEE Collabratec AI Community

           –  Built AI Community participants to over 19,000, 2024

• As VP of Technical Activities 2012      

          –  A new TAB mission statement: Inspire, Foster and
              Empower Technology-Centric Worldwide
              Communities which increased TAB focus on the vitality 
              of its communities.
          –  Created on-line communities, centered on the emerging
              technology activities managed by IEEE Future Directions,
              which are free and open to all.
          –  Created a new e-magazine (and member benefit), IEEE
             Technical  Community Spotlight, which provides all
              IEEE members with magazine articles on emerging
              technologies and guidance on how to participate in on-line
              emerging technology communities.
        –    Advocated a three-pronged Open Access strategy for
             TAB that was adopted by TAB - and has become IEEE
              Open Access strategy.
        –   Created a new recognition - the TAB Hall of Honor 
        –   Initiated the Ad Hoc committee that successfully 
             advocated the "bundled Society membership" 
             experiment that is providing free Society memberships to
             IEEE members to quantify the benefits of doing so. That
             experiment is still ongoing.


       

 

• As Past VP of Technical Activities (and Chair, TAB Strategic Planning) 2013

         –  Helped define, and gain funding for, the development of 
             the Professional Productivity and Collaboration Tools 
             - now called Collabratec - which are based on social 
             media and targeted at supporting the professional 
             audience.
         –  Defined a TAB value proposition for Society and Council    
             members
        –   Served as the founding EIC of IEEE Technical 
             Community Spotlight

• As President of IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004-05

          –  SPS created the IEEE Transactions on Information 
              Forensics and Security in a technology white space in
              which the IEEE had little presence.
          –  Established an Ad Hoc to address the concerns of its
              speech community – which led SPS to add language
              processing to the scope of one it is publications and to
              add language processing workshops.

•   The initial Chair of the IEEE Employee Benefits and    
  

            Compensation Committee 

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