The IEEE Computer Society started its 54th year of service as a global organization with 103,000 members in 138 countries and 41% of its members living and working outside the United States. The organization is focused on membership, its Web image and new products and services. A major theme of the society is "membership is everybody’s business," which encourages volunteers and staff to increase efforts to recruit new members and retain existing ones. The society's new web image is http://computer.org/, which contains information on all society activities.

The redesigned society Web site debuted in January 2000. The improved site has a fresh new look and an enhanced on-line membership application that gives members immediate access to Computer on-line, e-account sign-up, e-mail alias service and any electronic subscriptions chosen. The instant access may also include the Member Digital Library (MDLS) containing all the society’s periodicals and proceedings. Visitors may also purchase individual articles as they need them, if they prefer — $5 for members and $10 for nonmembers.

IT Professional is a new product, making its debut in 1999 for individuals who build-mission critical information systems and their managers. IT Pro and its web page http://www.computer.org/itpro/ address the needs of the large IT community. This bimonthly magazine covers rapidly emerging issues facing information technology professionals such as organizing and utilizing data, instituting cross-functional systems, using IT for competitive breakthroughs, and integrating systems and capitalizing on IT advances. Another new product IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is a multi-society effort, combining the resources of the IEEE Computer Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Signal Processing Society, and Communications Society. T-MM launched in 1999 and has a web page at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/tmm.html covering research in multimedia technology and applications. Two other new services introduced in 1999 are CS e-News, an electronic newsletter highlighting the activities of the Computer Society, and NewsScan, an electronic newsletter targeted towards the IT community and co-sponsored with Arthur Andersen.

In a novel approach to improving service, the society and the American Institute of Physics merged two publications into a single publication. Computer Science & Engineering merged with Computing in Physics debuting in 1999 as Computing in Science and Engineering. CiSE may be found at http://www.computer.org/cise/ and covers the emerging discipline of computational science and engineering and the use of computers and computational techniques in scientific and engineering research and education.

The IEEE Computer Society’s first International Design Competition (CSIDC) concluded in June 2000 with first place going to a team of engineering students from McMaster University (Hamiton, Ontario, Canada) for their Heart Mate — The Total Heart Care Unit. Information on the heart monitor information appliance may be reviewed at http://www.computer.org/csidc/CSIDCWinners.htm. The winning team was selected from a group of fifty that participated in the CSIDC 2000. The goal of the CSIDC is to advance excellence in education by having student teams design and implement computer-based solutions to real-world problems.

The society has a long and rich history of successes in providing leadership in education, curricula development and accreditation activities in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, and information sciences. The society monitors and evaluates current curriculum accreditation guidelines in the field of computer science and engineering in the United States and recommends changes as needed. The society sponsors regional accreditation workshops around the world.

The society has several memoranda of understanding (MOU) with national societies around the world including the Chilean Computer Society and the Korean Information Science Society. It is currently working on an MOU with the South African Computer Society. The society is proud to take on a larger role in the worldwide computing profession as a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The Computer Society has appointed representatives to eleven of the IFIP TCs, as follows:

Computer Society leadership is provided by: Guylaine Pollock, President; Ben Wah, President-Elect, and Leonard Tripp, Past-President. Members of the Executive Committee, listed below, lead the program boards and committees. The Board of Governors provides guidance, at the policy level, to all of the organizational entities within the society. Contact information for all of the society's officers and leaders may be found in the on-line volunteer directory at http://computer.org/direct/direct.htm.

Executive Committee:

Guylaine M. Pollock, 2000 President
Benjamin W. Wah, 2001 President
Leonard L. Tripp, 1999 President
Willis K. King, First Vice President for Conferences & Tutorials
Stephen L. Diamond, Second Vice President for Standards Activities
James H. Cross II, Vice President for Educational Activities
William W. Everett, Vice President for Chapters Activities
Sallie V. Sheppard, Vice President for Publications
Michel Israel, Vice President for Technical Activities
Deborah K. Scherrer, Secretary
Thomas W. Williams, Treasurer
Doris L. Carver, 2000-2001 IEEE Division V Director-Elect
Barry W. Johnson, 1999-2000 IEEE Division VIII Director
James H. Aylor, Computer Editor-in-Chief
Anne Marie Kelly, Acting Executive Director

The Computer Society Board of Governors consists of the executive committee and 21 elected governors. Current governors (by term expiration date) are:

The IEEE Computer Society serves its members through its Headquarters Office in Washington, DC, its Asia/Pacific Office in Tokyo, Japan, and its Publication Office in Los Alamitos, California. The society also has service centers around the world: a European Office in Brussels, Belgium, the Computer Society Beijing Center, Budapest Center, and Moscow Center. The Beijing Center supports the Computer Society’s first, experimental digital library mirror site to serve members in China.