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SSIT e-Newsletter
Volume 7. Issue 2. Summer 2009
2009 Summer Board of Governors Meeting
The summer board of governors meeting was held at the Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, AZ on May 18. The members discussed ways of reducing the growing SSIT budget deficit. The complete minutes of the meeting can be found at http://chortle.ccsu.edu/BOG/BOGindex.html.
Volunteers Needed!
From Janet Rochester, President, SSIT:
SSIT needs volunteers. We have committees that need leaders and members. We need a volunteer to take charge of our Virtual Community.
SSIT needs volunteers to serve on IEEE committees. Two important IEEE initiatives are the Smart Grid and IEEE Committee on Earth Observation (ICEO) (www.ieee-earth.org/). Both are new cross-disciplinary groups that have been requesting our participation. Both groups have several committees where you could use your expertise.
Other committees that would welcome SSIT participation are the Transportation and Aerospace Technology Policy Committee (an IEEE-USA committee), the Publications Thesaurus Board, and the IEEE Press.
We received many responses to the question in our survey about issues of interest to members. Some of them relate to the Smart Grid or ICEO. I urge those of you who responded to consider what you could do for these projects.
Most of the committees conduct their business by e-mail and conference call, so there would be no travel requirement. Contact Janet Rochester at j.rochester@ieee.org if you want more information on any of these opportunities.
Other suggestions represent new areas for SSIT. Are you willing to start some activity on a topic of interest? It could be a conference paper or session, a T&S article, or a new committee. Be creative.
SSIT Conferences
ISTAS 2010
The 2010 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2009) Social Implications of Emerging Technologies will be held in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia June 7-9, 2010. A cal for papers can be found at http://ieeessit.org/uploaded_documents/ISTAS10CFP.pdf.
Other Conferences
2009 IEEE Accessing the Future - A Global Collaborative Exploration for Accessibility in the Next Decade
Organized in partnership with IBM and hosted by Northeastern University, Boston, MA this conference will be held on July 20-21, 2009. This first-of-a-kind conference explores the future of emerging technologies and the associated accessibility challenges that will significantly impact the digital inclusion of 650 million people with disabilities and a rapidly increasing aging population. More information can be found at the conference web site at http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/accessingthefuture .
2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference –Science and Technology for Humanity
The IEEE Toronto International Conference on Science and Technology for Humanity will be held on Sept.26-27. There is a Social Implications of Technology track. More information can be found at http://www.tic-sth2009.org/.
Questions, comments, and items of interest should be directed to the newsletter editor: Karl Perusich, Ph.D., at perusich@sbcglobal.net. |
