IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - Fall 2013 - 4

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

The Beauty of
In-Person Meetings

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his past summer, at the end of June, I was
privileged to attend my first IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS'13) as SSIT's President. It was
an honor to open the conference.
I also was particularly pleased to meet in person
so many fascinating SSIT members whom I'd only
known previously from emails and Facebook discussions. I remember an especially great conversation
about society's changing conception of privacy that
I had with past SSIT President Janet Rochester, T&S
Managing Editor Terri Bookman, and some other
long-time SSIT-ers.
This is, of course, exactly why we have conferences. I'm very proud of how SSIT's virtual presence
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LAURA JACOB

has grown in the last year (check out our Facebook
and LinkedIn groups at https://www.facebook.com/
groups/324644704262132/ and http://www.linkedin.
com/groups/IEEE-SSIT-1790357 if you haven't
already!). But I am also in awe of our ability to come
together in person to discuss new technologies and
the questions they present for our society as a whole.
These meetings are a wonderful privilege.
The topic of wearable computing was fascinating
and I want to thank Ryan Janzen, Steve Mann, Katina
Michael, and the other conference organizers for creating such a great event.
On a related note, I was very pleased to hear from
the U.K. and Republic of Ireland Chapter that they are
re-forming after a period of dormancy. It's been great
to see the renewed interest in SSIT chapters of late -
like conferences, they are a wonderful way to meet
other members and gain new perspectives.

2013 IEEE-SSIT President, Laura Jacob, is with Palantir Technologies. She can be reached at laura.jacob@gmail.com.

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