ISSCC Report to SSCS: February 2005

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ISSCCReport to SSCS February 2005

• ISSCC 2004 closing
• ISSCC 2005
• Conference operations
• ISSCC process mapping
• Electronic distribution of papers
• Electronic editing of papers and distributed
  editing
• Technical program
• Registration update
• Plans for ISSCC 2006 and beyond

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ISSCC 2004 Financials
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Income, Expenses and SurplusIn constant (2004)
dollars
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Registration FeesCompared to IEEE Survey Results
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Registration Fee ComparisonAdditional Items at
ISSCC vs. Average IEEE Conference
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ISSCC 2005Operations

• Electronic submission and distribution of draft
  manuscripts
• 3.3X increase in paper submissions over past
  decade
• Web-based draft manuscript submission site for
  electronic submission of manuscripts in third
  year of operation
• Web- and CD- based distribution of papers third
  year
• Both smoother this year than last year
• Distributed, web-based editing of final
  manuscripts
• Final manuscripts maintained on FTP site for
  editors and authors
• Editing performed electronically by technical
  editors
• Fourth technical editor added this year
• Process mapping
• ISSCC operations processes mapped and updated
  annually
• ISSCC program committee process mapping initiated
• Shortened time between submission and publication
  by 3 weeks
• Deadline late in September allows paper
  submission after summer holidays
• Increased paper submissions and acceptances
  strained publications staff

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Submitted Accepted Papers579 submitted, 233
accepted papers for ISSCC 2005 vs. 461
submitted, 204 accepted papers for ISSCC 2004
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Paper Acceptance RateISSCC 1992 - 2005
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ISSCC Technical Content vs. Year
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ISSCC Attendance1992 to 2004 with projections to
2007
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Geographic Distribution of AttendancePercent
Attendance by Region, 1992-2004
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Prediction 8 Attendance Growth
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ISSCC Registration
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Changes for ISSCC 2006Program Committee Changes

• Paper evaluation load has become a serious
  problem
• Paper submissions increased 25 for ISSCC 2005 on
  top of large increases in 2003 and 2004
• Size of program committee was reduced 8 in
  consolidation to a single International Program
  Committee
• Result was a 33 increase in paper evaluation
  load on top of increases in 2003 and 2004
• Loading concentrated in Analog and Wireless
  over 100 papers each
• Discussions in Vision and Long Range Planning
  Committee on Subcommittee Changes
• Split Analog into A/Ds and other analog
• Readjust Wireless and Wireline to break out a
  communications building blocks
• Other suggestions being discussed, but most would
  restore program committee size to 2003 levels

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ISSCC 2006Program Vice-Chair Nominee Jan Van
der Spiegel

• Education
• PhD EE, Univ. Leuven, 1979
• Career University of Pennsylvania
• Assistant Professor 1981 1987
• Associate Professor 1987 1995
• Full Professor 1995 present
• Chair, 1998 - present
• IEEE Service
• IEEE Fellow, 2002.
• IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Solid-State Circuit
  Society (1999-present)
• Chapters coordinator, SSCS
• Program Committee Secretary and TD Steering
  Committee, ISSCC

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Advance for ISSC 2006

• ISSCC 2005
• ISSCC 2004 returned surplus of 597,000 to SSCS
• ISSCC requested advance of 600,000 approved by
  SSCS
• Move to International Program Committee has led
  to increased travel charges
• 25 increase in paper submissions has led to
  increased up-front cost projections for 2006
• At one point, total expenses exceeded income by
  700,000
• Pre-registration income (Dec Jan) is
  2,000,000, covers expenses for the entire
  conference year
• ISSCC 2006
• Requesting approval of 700,000 advance