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the CAS. Gray, Terman, and Wooley
attended a CAS long-range planning
meeting in early August, where the
possibility of the SSCC merging with
the CAS was reviewed.
A special Council meeting was
held on 24 August to discuss the survey
results and LPC transition plan
and for Ruey-Wen Liu, CAS president,
to present his views on merging
the SSCC and CAS. Discussions
about the options for the future of
the SSCC continued the following
day, when the basic transition plan
was ultimately approved, including
the following:
1) The SSCC should proceed toward
becoming a Society, using the
LPC report as a guideline (by a
vote of 11 yes and zero no, with
three abstentions).
2) The FOI was approved as the
" design, implementation, and
application of solid-state integrated
circuits. "
3) Mussman should seek TAB approval
of the FOI as soon as possible.
4) The Constitution and Bylaws
Committee should prepare SSCS
governance documents to be
distributed by 6 January
1996 for possible approval
at the 7 February
Council meeting.
Attendees of the November
President's Forum
and TAB meeting considered
endorsing the SSCS,
reviewing the FOI, survey
results, and other
planning materials. The
TAB approved the folOverall
membership
has
at the time of
writing, and the
Society sponsors
and cosponsors
90-plus Chapters
worldwide.
lowing motion at its meeting on 12
November 1995: " TAB endorses the
formation of a society from the Solid-State
Circuits Council following
expanded to
more than 10,000
the plan outlined by the Solid-State
Circuits Council; the Society name is
to be developed in conjunction with
the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society,
for submission to TAB for recommendation
of approval by the IEEE
Executive Committee. The Field of
Interest is: design, implementation
and application
of solid-state
integrated circuits. "
The SSCS Constitution
and Bylaws were ratified
at the 7 February 1996
Council meeting and received
TAB approval in
Ma r c h 1996. The IEEE
Board of Directors subsequently
authorized the formation
of the SSCS.
The first SSCS Administrative
PAST OFFICERS OF THE IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS COUNCIL
AND IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS SOCIETY
Committee (AdCom) meeting took
place at ISSCC 1997, with the following
officers (see " Past Officers of the
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council and
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society " for
more details):
■ Swartz (president)
■ Terman (vice president)
■ John Corcoran (secretary)
■ Swartzlander (treasurer)
■ Mussman (past president).
The five at-large AdCom members,
elected in fall 1996, were
Nicky Lu, Chris Manglesdorf, Willy
Sansen, Eric Vittoz, and Wooley.
The Society representatives included
Phil Allen (CAS), Sodini
(EDS), Les Palkuti (IEEE Electronics
Packaging Society), Ken Pedrotti
(IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society),
and J. Goel (IEEE Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society).
This was a very exciting and busy
time. We are grateful to all
the
individuals who undertook the
tremendous amount of work to establish
the SSCS. We must not forget
Anne O'Neill, the first SSCS
executive director, who did much
of the heavy lifting during the Society's
rapid growth.
Epilogue
In the 25 years since the transition,
the SSCS has become an energetic
organization. Overall membership
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