Romania SSCS Chapter Formed to Promote Circuit Activities in Eastern Europe

SSCS-Romania, newly established last fall by Marcel Profirescu to foster a stronger connection between local academic and industrial circuit design researchers and the Romanian chapter of EDS, cosponsored a mini-colloquium with 15 well known international speakers as its first event. SSCS AdCom Endorses Newsletter-Magazine Conversion ISSCC Task Force Previews Ground-Breaking Initiatives In a formal motion at its biannual meeting on 19 August, 2008 in San Francisco, the SSCS AdCom endorsed the tone, scope, administrative structure, and budget of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) in June. The Magazine will launch in January 2009 as an official migration of the SSCS Newsletter, which had become a magazine. The AdCom also heard about work in progress report on ISSCC spin-off "satellite" conferences and the ground-breaking technologies that will be necessary to support them.