IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE Computer Society is an organizational part of the IEEE. It was founded in 1963 as the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE ) were merged to the IEEE to create. At the time of unification, the Sub-Committee on Large - Scale Computing was the AIEE (founded 1946) ( founded in 1948 ) and the Technical Committee on Electronic Computers of the IRE merged to initially form the IEEE Computer Group. This group was 1971 IEEE Computer Society.

Position in the IEEE

In the structure of the IEEE Computer Society is one of nearly 40 technical societies organized under the Technical Activities Board of the IEEE. Because of its size (2004 about 100,000 members and staff ) and the scope of its activities but enjoys the Computer Society an outstanding status. It provides two voting of the 31 members of the Board of Directors of the IEEE, it is represented on the Executive Committee of the IEEE, it operates many of its publications, conferences, and activities for new members with a greater degree of autonomy than other companies and organizational units within the IEEE.

Most important activities

With administrative centers in Washington D.C. ( and additional offices in California and Japan) directs the Computer Society, the publication of 14 periodic publications ( including the flagship publication of the Society and IEEE Computer Software ), as well as 14 professional journals. The journals are mainly known as the " Transactions " (eg, the IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ). Two of these Transactions are published jointly with the Association for Computing Machinery. The Company organizes about 150 conferences annually and has nearly 200 local departments worldwide. It coordinates the activities of about 50 technical committees (technical committees, eg bioinformatics), Councils ( Councils, for example, Council for Software Engineering ) and task forces ( groups of problems, such as information security ). The Company participates in training activities ( including " distance learning " ) and accreditations of advanced training programs on their areas of interest (such as Computer Science and Computer Engineering ). It operates about a dozen working groups and committees for the development of industrial standards (eg, the Storage Systems Standards Committee).

Relation to other professional associations

The IEEE Computer Society is exposed to competition with professional associations in the general fields of computer science and information technology. Traditionally, the company successful, people with engineering degrees was (especially electrical engineering and computer technology ) to attract as those with academic training in computer science or information technology.

On the side of Computer Science, the most important organization is outside the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ). ACM has about 80,000 members (2004) and cooperates with the Computer Society in a number of joint publications and conferences.

In the field of information technology, the IEEE projects face the competition from various commercial exhibitions as well as several popular publications, mostly online. Some of these publications are more applications and commercial devices oriented than the more scientifically oriented IEEE journals. The IEEE Computer Society also applies to internal competition from other companies within the IEEE, the area of ​​interest with the overlaps of the Computer Society.

Notable Manager

Among the notable leaders of the IEEE Computer Society (and its predecessor comitees in IRE and AIEE ) included Charles Concordia, WH MacWilliams, Morton Astrahan, Edward McCluskey and Albert Hoagland.

Awards of the IEEE Computer Society

The IEEE Computer Society recognizes outstanding work by computer specialists who advance the field by extraordinary technical services as well as services to the profession and to society. Awards will be awarded in the following categories: Technical Awards, Education Awards, Service Awards and Golden Core Award.

You place the computer Pioneer Award and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.

Selected Publications

  • Computer
  • IEEE Micro
  • IEEE software
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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