IEEE Computer Society Benefits of Membership

1. IEEE Computer SocietyBenefits of Membership • Cecilia Metra • IEEE Computer Society • Vice President, Member and Geographic Activities • 24 January 2017

2. Today’s Agenda • MGA Board • MGA Goals for 2017 • New Membership Experience for 2017 • myCS • myComputer App • Skillsoft • Computing Now • Publications • Transactions • Chapters • 2017 Global Student Challenge • TechIgnite • Questions & Answers

3. Member and Geographic Activities Board • Vice President: Cecilia Metra • Vice Chair Outreach and Diversity: Rob Reilly • Vice Chair Geographic Activities: Jill Gostin • Vice Chair Student and Young Professional Activities: Jimmy Túllume Salazar  • Vice Chair Awards and Recognition: Peter Mager • Vice Chair Special Technical Communities: Carlos E. Jiménez Gómez

4. MGA Goals for 2017 • Strengthen the connection between Chapters’ Chairs and MGA • Increase the connection among Professional Section Chapters and Student Chapters • Continue and/or modify MGA awards and scholarship programsStudentBranch Chapters • Increase membership • Extend, Strengthen and Enhance the CS Distinguished Visitor Program • Strengthen the connection between Chapters and STCs

5. Why The Change? • Provides members with a choice and lets them determine which benefits are useful to their career development. • Allows members to see the primary benefits more clearly. • Helps to reduce cost of membership. • Give us more information on which benefits members find useful. • Attract IEEE members who have an interest in computing but aren’t members. • Benefit segmentation by audience.

6. New Membership Experience Computer Magazine The flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. Conference Events Forums for top minds to come together to develop, validate, and disseminate leading-edge information. Webinars Cost-effective, cutting-edge training — anytime, anywhere. ComputingEdge A curated digest with articles from our 13 leading technology publications plus original content in a single experience. Chapter Membership More than 480 worldwide chapters offer leadership, professional development, and career advancement opportunities for both professionals and students. myCS Member-only, interactive, mobile-ready digital publication portal. Preferred Plus Training & Development Research Basic Student

7. Your New Membership Experience

8. Introducing myCS, the new home to access your Computer Society digital publications • Say goodbye to hard-to-read, static PDFs. Your magazines are now more interactive, useful, retrievable, and engaging. • Mobile friendly. Looks great on any device—mobile, tablet, laptop, or desktop. • Customizable. Whatever your e-reader lets you do, you can do on myCS. Change the page color, text size, or layout; even use annotations or an integrated dictionary—it's up to you! • Adaptive design. Designed specifically for digital delivery and readability—no resemblance to a flat PDF! • Personal archive. Save all your issues and search or retrieve them quickly on your personal myCS site.

9. myComputer App • Browse through and read magazine articles on your iOS and Android devices with the myComputer Mobile App. • No fee: Read your current magazine subscriptions when logged in with your IEEE account. • Explore magazines you don't subscribe to and discover new content using tokens purchased with the app. • Research & Preferred Plus members get 30 free tokens with annual membership

10. Skillsoft: 2017 Bigger & Better Advance Your Career with the Computer Society • New Expanded Library • 28,000+ books • 3,000+ courses • 36,000+ videos • Practice Exams • Mentorship • Over 20x as many resources as before • Upgraded Platform • Personalized home page & profile • Content recommendations • More powerful search engine with multiple filters • Intuitive library display with easy access to new releases

11. Sample of New Skillsoft Content

12. Computing Now • The one-stop destination site with: • The latest computer news • The hottest bloggers • Practical articles • Videos and podcasts • Peer-reviewed research • Insightful opinions by leaders in the computer industry • Computingnow.computer.org

13. Publications • 13 Magazines (including Computer) • Members in Preferred Plus or Research get two additional magazine subscriptions • Computer • Cloud Computing • Software • Annals of the History of Computing • Computer Graphics and Applications • Computing in Science & Engineering • Intelligent Systems • Internet Computing • IT Professional • Micro • MultiMedia • Pervasive Computing • Security & Privacy

14. Transactions 20 journals representing top quality research • Affective Computing • Big Data • Cloud Computing • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics • Computers • Dependable and Secure Computing • Emerging Topics in Computing • Haptics • Knowledge and Data Engineering • Learning Technologies • Mobile Computing • Multi-Scale Computing Systems • Network Science & Engineering • Parallel and Distributed Systems • Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence • Services Computing • Software Engineering • Sustainable Computing • Visualization and Computer Graphics • Computer Architecture Letters

15. IEEE Computer Society ChaptersGet Involved Locally • 295 Student Chapters • 48 New Chapters in 2016 • 212 Professional Chapters • 6 New Chapters in 2016 • Events Held (2016 Jan to mid-Nov) • 397 total technical events • Attracting 27,000+ attendees (Members & Non-Members)

16. Student Scholarships • Richard E. Merwin Student Ambassador • 40, $1000 Scholarships Awarded • Deadlines: April 30 & September 30 • Designed to recognize and reward active student volunteer leaders in student branches or chapters who show promise in their academic and professional efforts • Lance Stafford Larson Paper Contest • 2, $500 Scholarships Awarded • Deadline October 31 • Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society • 4, $1,000 Scholarships Awarded • Deadline: October 31

17. 2017 Global Student ChallengeCreate a solution, based on the IEEE Computer Society 2022 report, that will solve a real-world issue. • Theme • Invent a Better World Through Technology • Submission Requirements • jpeg cover image of solution • Submit one of the following: • Power Point: 10-20 slides • Video: Maximum two minutes • Illustrated storyboard: 10-20 panels • Supporting essay (max. 1,000 words) on what technologiesin the 2022 report are being utilized & why you think the solution will work • Extra value will be for those proposals that submit a working prototype, demo, or code. These can be made available by sharing a link in the essay or presentation. • Awards • First place - $1,500 + travel expenses to June Board meeting in Phoenix, AZ • Second place - $500 • Third place - $300 • Submission deadline: 1 April 2017

18. Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer What the Real Truth Behind Today’s Technologies? And How Disruptive Are They Really? Grady Booch, Chief Scientist of Software Engineering, IBM Singularity? Is it a Real Threat? If So, How Much Time Do We Have? Annette Bruls, President, Diabetes Services & Solutions, Medtronic Healthcare Apps That Prevent Rather Than Treat Symptoms John Martinis, Research Scientist, Google Building a Quantum Computer David O’Berry, Worldwide Technical Strategist, Intel Security Meet the New World of Autonomic Security

19. Cecilia Metra cecilia.metra@unibo.it membership@computer.org