1. IEEE Computer Society Benefits 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 programs Student Branch 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
Intelligent Systems
Cloud Computing
Internet Computing
Software
IT Professional
Annals of the History of Computing
Micro
MultiMedia
Computer Graphics and Applications
Pervasive Computing
Security & Privacy
Computing in Science & Engineering

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

15. IEEE Computer Society Chapters Get 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 Challenge Create 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: slides
Video: Maximum two minutes
Illustrated storyboard: panels
Supporting essay (max. 1,000 words) on what technologies in 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
9/20/2018

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