IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2015 - 18

Senior editorShip-
"impaCtS" SeCtion
"Impacts" explores the socioeconomic
aspects of CE, which is quite a wide area
to cover. Katina Michael is the acting
senior editor for this section, but this section can be further developed if we can
find the right person. It requires someone
with an interest in building an interdisciplinary bridge between engineers and
socioeconomic researchers. If you feel that
person is you, and you can meet the challenge to manage and further develop our
"Impacts" section, please reach out to us.

Senior editorShip-
SpeCial iSSueS
This role requires a senior editor to solicit, manage, and assist guest editors and
AEs to bring more of our calls for articles
to a successful conclusion. It will also
require working with some of our conference committees to find and develop conference activities that will lead to special
sections and special issues of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. If you are
interested in this new and challenging
role, please contact me.

Senior editorShip-"Soapbox"
and "ChampionS of Ce"
"Soapbox" and "Champions of CE" are
two other special categories of articles

we have established over the first four
volumes of IEEE Consumer Electronics
Magazine. Again, this role involves significant work to solicit and shepherd
new articles.
If you are familiar with our publication, then you most likely will have read
both of these sections. If these articles
have inspired you, then please consider
this challenge.

ASSociAte editorShipS
A limited number of AE positions are
available. A key mission for AEs is to
help increase the number of articles submitted to IEEE Consumer Electronics
Magazine for peer review. Efforts to
build special sections and/or special
issues of the magazine will be a key
responsibility of these roles. A senior editor and the editor-in-chief will provide
support and mentor people in these roles.
These positions are open to IEEE Members who are willing to take on these
roles and responsibilities.

roleS and
reSponSibilitieS of aes
Each AE will take on the role of representing a specific technical field or interest group within the scope of CE. Their
responsibilities are twofold. First, they
will have the principal responsibility to

solicit articles for peer review in their
selected field with a target to achieve at
least four submitted papers per year.
Second, each AE must work on at least
one call for articles during his or her
first year, concluding with a special section or special issue in his or her second
year of tenure.
To become an AE, you should first
write to me (dr.peter.corcoran@ieee.
org) specifying the following:
1) What field of interest within CE
would you like to represent?
2) Provide a plan to solicit content for
the peer-review process; please make
sure this explains the different measures that you feel are needed to reach
out to different communities in your
chosen field of interest and how you
will go about this outreach program.
3) Provide a plan to outline at least one
call for articles you intend to pursue as
AE; include a timeline indicating what
conference(s) you would reach out to
and what activities you would aim to
organize to compliment your call for
articles and bring home a special issue
or special section of the magazine.
Please be specific in the details of
your planned actions and any associated timelines. If you need some funding
to implement these plans, please outline budgetary requirements.

Boston CE Society-SSCS 2015 Spring Meeting

he Boston Chapter of the IEEE
Consumer Electronics (CE) Society held its spring meeting on
6 May 2015. The meeting was
cosponsored by the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society (SSCS) and was held at
the headquarters of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2015.2435191
Date of publication: 15 July 2015

18 IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

july 2015

(EECS) Department in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Here is the story of how
this meeting was conceived, developed,
and implemented.

deVeLopMent
The notion of the Internet of Things (IoT)
has caught the imagination of the person in
the street who now expects her/his home,
car, phone, watch, clothes, toys, etc., to be
"smart." The empowerment that the IoT
has brought to the individual makes it key

that new product developments have a personal interface. One is tempted to say that,
beyond infrastructure and with connectivity, virtually all electronics are personal.
The nuts and bolts that enable the IoT will
be an unending stream of sensors and controllers that engineers will design. Ideally,
these will be microscopic in size, operate
and communicate for years on contained or
scrounged power, and be able to accommodate communications standards that
change over time.

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