Division I notes

This was written and sent to the Newsletter editors of Division I in June 1982. Two board meetings and three TAB Op Com meetings have been held so far this year, in addition to countless other IEEE related meetings, telephone calls, and piles of correspondence. I seem to be averaging 30 pieces of incoming IEEE mail per week excluding journals, Transactions, magazines, newsletters, SPECTRUM, The Institute Proceedings, and Potentials. What I´ll try to do in these occasional columns is filter the data I receive from these various sources; but it is not clear what type of filter should be used. Obviously, an all-pass filter is out since you don´t care about all Institute activities. I´m not too excited about some of them myself, but I should at least be prepared to sample everything. My filter should have some low-pass qualities, since many very high bandwidth activities cannot be adequately reported in a timely fashion, as I´m only producing three or four reports to you per year. Indeed, it is probably the long term, low frequency information which is most relevant, so I shall emphasize this.