1. SSCS Adcom August 12, 2013 Bill Bidermann

2. SSCS Adcom – Report Card 2 GoalStatus Double Fellow Nominations Pre-Doctor Achievement Awards Winners on Web Chapter Count New Member Benefits Social Involvement Opportunity Education Database Content (Webinars/DL Lectures) Conferences Indexed by Thompson India/China “Workshop”/Leadership SSCS Membership Conference Discount Student Involvement

3. SSCS Adcom – Awards/Chapters/Membership 3

4. SSCS Adcom – Goal Tracking 4

5. 100 New Student Members - Results 5 UniversityChapters Solicited44107 Responses Women1249 Responses Men1538 May 2012 = 153  May 2013 = 184  + 98 (16?) Next Steps 98 (or more) Survey/Personal Interviews (Gass/Bidermann) Measure Retention Observation – Chapters seem to value highly – opportunity!

6. SSCS Adcom – New Ideas (M. Perrott, Tzi-Dar) 6 GoalLeader? Highly Value Tutorials – Double the number within 3 years. Full materials only available tomembers Members only breakout room at ISSCC, VLSI, CICC,etc. with special badges identifying members JSSC content viewable by members one week earlier than non-0members JSSC available one week earlier in mail/email Starbucks cars – agreat idea – extend to other conferences Local restaurant coupons at conferences Mentoring/Career counseling – explicit ideas o fdiscounted registration for mentors. Provide free stuff with new memberships for the 1st year Conference tutorials and workshop material online Broader access to IEEE Explore material (TCAS, MTT, …) One free conference registration coupon. (Make it only for a conference in a different continent from the member's location) ISSCC Keynotes searchagle like TED talks to increase visibliiity I think the “it’s about the people you meet” (http://sscs.ieee.org/membership.html) is quite true. Social Networking Proposal

7. 7 IEEE Biometrics Council India’s Big Bet on Identity: March 2012 (IEEE Spectrum) The world’s largest biometric authentication system launchedIEEE Spectrum The 6 th IAPR/IEEE : ICB Madrid, Spain, June 2013 Keynote: Ashok Pal Singh, Deputy Director General, Unique ID Authority of India (UIDAI) “ID for a Billion” Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Track Down the Boston Bombers (and Why Humans Are Still Better at It): (Businessweek 2013- 04-19)Businessweek 2013- 04-19 Biometrics Compendium Council newsletter DLP program established 2 local chapters: Italy R8 & Maldives R10 Request for 2014: For SSCS to continue as a member of the IEEE Biometrics Council at $2k/year IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community Purpose: “To Establish the Life Sciences as a key field of interest to IEEE and attract to IEEE professionals, researchers and other interested parties who work at the intersection of the Life Sciences with Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics” LS Content – Based on searches in IEEE Xplore using the following 10 keywords: bioinformatics, biology, biomedical, biometrics, health, “health care”, healthcare, “life sciences”, medical, and medicine. Request for 2014: For SSCS to be a member Life Sciences Technical Community at $15k/year