1. Report by the Long Range Planning Committee Paolo Dario
AdCom Meeting
San Francisco
April 28, 2000

2. Structure of the LRPC Co-ordinating Committee
1 Chair
1 Vice-chair
1 Secretary (Dr. Silvestro Micera)
N Chairs of the sub-committees
Co-ordinating
Committee
Sub-committees
An “ideal” LRPC should incorporate the opinions and advises of a large number of experts belonging to different areas of interest/expertise (a 2-3 members Committee is not sufficiently wide-ranging)
A LRPC should work efficiently and produce concrete results (a members Committee would not work)

3. Proposed structure of the LRPC
Two kinds of sub-committees
New sub-committees
New Technology Direction Committee
Industry and Technology Transfer
National and International Policies
Scientific and Cultural Issues
Links with other Societies (in different fields, within and outside IEEE)
(others….)
Existing Committees
Technical Affairs Board
Education
(others…)

4. Proposed structure of the LRPC
Expected results
Guidelines (“policy”) for future strategies of RAS
Proposals for possible specific actions (“investments”) to be funded by RAS surplus