Reisman Voted 2010 Computer Society President-ElectMembers also choose new vice presidents and Board of Governors members
I EEE Computer Society mem-bers recently selected Sorel Reisman of California State University, Fullerton, to serve
as the Society’s president-elect for 2010.
Reisman heads the Merlot consor-tium, a leading online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. He is Computer Society vice president for publications, a member of the IEEE’s Publication Services and Products Board, and TAB Periodicals Com-mittees, and serves on the advisory board of IT Professional. Reisman is also a member of the IEEE Education Society.
Candidates elected to the Com-puter Society presidency serve a three-year term in a leadership role. After serving a year as president-elect under 2010 president James D. Isaak, Reisman will assume the duties of Society president in 2011. Following his 2011 term as president, Reisman will continue to be an active Society leader in 2012 as past president.
LEADERS SERVE MEMBERSEach year, Society members vote
for the next year’s president-elect, fi rst and second vice presidents, and seven members of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. The Soci-ety president and vice presidents each serve a one-year active term, while the 21 Board of Governors members serve three-year terms, rotating in three groups of seven.
The three presidents—incoming, active, and outgoing—work together in setting policy and making opera-tional decisions. The active Society president is responsible for heading three annual Board of Governors meetings and for addressing major issues that affect the Computer Soci-ety during the year.
NEW VICE PRESIDENTS ELECTED
Roger U. Fujii of Northrop Grum-man was elected 2010 first vice president, while Jeffrey M. Voas of the
National Insitutue of Standards and Technology topped the balloting for 2010 second vice president. Each will serve as chair of one of the several Computer Society boards. Fujii will serve as vice president for Standards. Voas was elected by the Board of Gov-ernors as 2010 secretary. The sitting president also appoints vice presi-dents to complement the two elected VPs as leaders of individual Society activities boards: Publications, Edu-cational Activities, Conferences and Tutorials, Standards Activities, Tech-nical and Conference Activities, and Member and Geographic Activities.
The appointed Society vice presidents also serve as nonvoting members of the Board of Governors. Holding voting positions on the Board are the president, past president, president-elect, and fi rst and second vice presidents. Additional nonvot-ing members are the Society’s staff executive director, Computer’s editor in chief, and the IEEE directors for divisions V and VIII—the Computer Society’s elected representatives on the IEEE Board of Governors.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS ADDS SEVEN NEW MEMBERS
In the 2009 Society election, which closed in early October, voters also cast ballots to fi ll seven openings on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. The seven members chosen for 2010-2012 terms are Eliza-beth Burd, James W. Moore, Thomas M. Conte, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Frank E. Ferrante, John W. Walz, and Luis Kun.
2010 IEEE Computer Society President-Elect Sorel Reisman will champion the use of the Society’s revitalized website as the platform for topic-focused professional social networking portals.
2010 IEEE Computer Society President James D. Isaak is working to provide timely, quality technical information to attract the next generation of technologists.
Members also choose new vice presidents and Board of Governors members
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REPORT TO MEMBERS
Many of the successful candidates have had recent Computer Society Board of Governors and leadership experience.
Elected officers volunteer their time and talents to further the Soci-ety’s goals and to elevate the profile of the computing profession in general. Society officers take a lead role in promoting new publications, educa-tional efforts, conferences, technical focus groups, and international stan-dards that help Computer Society members attain career goals.
The Computer Society mailed 64,412 ballots to members in the 2009 election. Of the 8,653 ballots cast—a return rate of 13.43 percent—6,314 were submitted via the Web, and 2,339 were submitted in paper form. Table 1 shows the breakdown of votes cast for each office. The full ballot for the 2009 election also included the candidates listed in Table 2.
NOMINATE A CANDIDATEAny Computer Society member
can nominate candidates for Society offices. Most members are also eli-gible to run for a seat on the Board of Governors. Candidates for other offices must be full members of the IEEE and have been members of the Computer Society for at least the pre-ceding three years.
Visit www.computer.org/portal/web/elections2009 for more details
on the 2009 IEEE Computer Society elections.
Table 1. These new officers will begin serving the IEEE Computer Society on 1 January 2010.
Office Officer Number of votes Percent
2010 president-elect/2011 president Sorel Reisman 4,579 54.0*
2010 first vice president Roger U. Fujii 4,412 52.4*
2010 second vice president Jeffrey M. Voas 4,702 56.0*
2010-2012 terms on the Board of Governors
Elizabeth Burd 6,796 80.2
James W. Moore 5,095 60.1
Thomas M. Conte 5,095 60.1
Jean-Luc Gaudiot 4,518 53.3
Frank E. Ferrante 4,463 52.7
John W. Walz 4,454 52.6
Luis Kun 4,340 51.2
I EEE members recently selected Moshe Kam as their president-elect for 2010.
Kam is the department chair and Robert Quinn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. He also serves as director of the Drexel University National Security Agency Center for Excellence in Information Assurance Edu-cation and as director of the Data Fusion Laboratory.
Kam will serve one year as IEEE president-elect, participating in Board of Directors activities. He will then assume the role of president in the following year. After his term in 2011, Kam will serve as past president in 2012.
In the same election, IEEE members chose 2009 Computer Society president
Susan K. (Kathy) Land, CSDP, as Division VIII director-elect for 2010. Land is a principal software systems engineer for Mitre and a member of the IEEE Technical Activities Board and IEEE Standards Association.
Division directors represent IEEE societ-ies on the IEEE Board of Directors and Technical Activities Board. Division direc-tors V and VIII are elected to represent the Computer Society membership. Land will act as director-elect in 2010 and as division director for 2011-2012. The division direc-tors also serve as ex officio members of the Computer Society’s Board of Governors and Executive Committee.
MOSHE KAM CHOSEN AS IEEE PRESIDENT-ELECT FOR 2010
In 2001, Moshe Kam was named IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the theory of decision fusion and distributed detection.”
*Percentage reflects only ballots cast for this office.
Table 2. The full ballot for the 2009 Computer Society election also included the following candidates.
Office Officer Number of votes Percent
2010 president-elect/2011 president Jon G. Rokne 3,874 45.7*
2010 first vice president Donald F. Shafer 3,974 47.2*
