SSCS AdCom Endorses Newsletter-Magazine Conversion in Summer Meeting, ISSCC Task Force Previews Ground-Breaking Initiatives

ISSCC Task Force Previews Ground-Breaking Initiatives In a formal motion at its biannual meeting on 19 August, 2008 in San Francisco, the SSCS AdCom endorsed the tone, scope, administrative structure, and budget of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) in June. The Magazine will launch in January 2009 as an official migration of the SSCS Newsletter, which had become a magazine. The AdCom also heard about work in progress report on ISSCC spin-off "satellite" conferences and the ground-breaking technologies that will be necessary to support them.