IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine - Q1 2018 - 4

Past President's
Message
franco maloberti
President, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-2017)

he two years of my term as President of the CAS
Society have been a great and rewarding personal experience. I also hope I have kept almost
all the promises I made at the beginning of my term
and in particular to treat the CASS members as customers. This is an important aspect for me because I
think this is the correct attitude of a person who works
as a volunteer.
As you know, in January 2016, at the beginning of my
term, I worked for the publication of the book "A short
history of Circuits and Systems". With the help of fifty
colleagues, we managed to get the book available in May
to be offered for free to ISCAS participants in Montreal.
The book was also offered to participants of other CASS
Conferences and is now available free of charge in the
e-book format for CASS members.
Other initiatives that I have supported are the seasonal schools with slide-based books and the Industrial
Distinguished Lecturer program (I-DLP). The CAS Society contributes partially to seasonal schools to allow a
reduced participation fee. Furthermore, the slides of the
presentations are assembled two-per-page for a book
available in paper format and as an e-book. The e-book
versions of the first two books can be downloaded free
of charge for the CASS Members, other books will come
shortly. There is a specific site, the CASS Resource Center accessible from the main CASS Web site. The CASS

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Resource Center also offers other resources freely available for CASS members.
One of the specific problems of our Society is a
marked academic characterization. This is positive but
for an optimal activity of our members, it is necessary
to favor interactions with the industrial world. The I-DL
Program that I have proposed aims at such an object.
It is a joint venture between Chapter and local industries. The industries provide an industrial speaker and
the chapters receive support from the CASS for the local
organization. The goal is to determine benefits for both
the participating industry and the young designers and
researchers of the chapter.
We also worked to increase the CASS visibility with
an improved version of the website and information on
social media. The work done by the society's administrator was a great help for this goal.
The activities described above are, in my opinion,
those that mainly characterize the activity carried out.
Obviously, there was also the management and work of
VPs and administrative support without the precious
help of which the Society would not be able to provide
services to the members.
I hope you appreciated the work done by me and the
VPs who have worked, in my opinion, very well and to
whom I sincerely express my gratitude. I will continue
to serve the community as Past President and hope to
meet many of you in future CASS events.
-Franco

fIrst QuartEr 2018

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