1. Systems Council Report to Communications Society Technical Activities Committee Bill Semancik wsemancik@ieee.org

2. Current Member Societies Aerospace & Electronic Systems http://www.ieee-aess.orghttp://www.ieee-aess.org Circuits And Systems http://www.ieee-cas.org/http://www.ieee-cas.org/ Communications http://www.comsoc.org/http://www.comsoc.org/ Computational Intelligence http://www.ieee-cis.org/http://www.ieee-cis.org/ Computer http://www.computer.org/http://www.computer.org/ Control Systems Society http://www.ieeecss.org/http://www.ieeecss.org/ Engineering in Medicine & Biologyhttp://www.embs.org/http://www.embs.org/ Instrumentation & Measurement http://www.ieee-ims.orghttp://www.ieee-ims.org Microwave Theory & Techniques http://mtt.org/http://mtt.org/ Oceanic Engineering http://www.oceanicengineering.org/http://www.oceanicengineering.org/ Power Electronics http://www.pels.org/http://www.pels.org/ Product Safety Engineering http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pses/ Reliability http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/relsoc/http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/relsoc/ Robotics & Automation http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/ Systems, Man & Cyberneticshttp://www.ieeesmc.orghttp://www.ieeesmc.org

3. Activities of Systems Council In existence for nearly 3 years Sponsor of IEEE International Systems Conference – 2007 operated at a loss – 2008 operated at a small profit – 2009 to take place 23-26 March in Vancouver, BC Planning healthcare based Systems of Systems Conference for November 2010

4. Candidate Systems of Systems DefenseGEOSSTrans- portation HealthPrivacy Communications Computing Reliability Sensors Info Fusion Robotics Systems Eng Data Security Power Safety/Availability Test & Verification Functions Needed Infra- structure

5. The Healthcare SoS Sector has a DENSE Society Impact/Opportunity Matrix! Society Sampling: Healthcare Sector spans ALL Council Members! EVERY blue dot above represents substantial new individual SOCIETY membership, revenue, research, collaboration, and public service opportunities, incl. regional and international conferences, standards, publications and related projects! SoS “Products” Interoperability: Integration Patient Safety: Stds, Regs Public Health: data mining Electronic/Pers. Health Records – SoS databases Regions/Markets – unique populations, economies, infrastructure, regulations Middle East & Africa EM&BSGRSS …Systems Council Member Societies… Signal Processing Medical Electronics ComputingCommunication Systems Engineering … Latin America Europe Pan-Asia US/Americas

6. Potential Actions for TAC ComSoc asked for a representative to the SoS Planning Committee – Pradeep Ray has accepted that position pending successful application for ComSoc sponsorship – Note that conference treasurer position is also offered to member societies Member Societies requested to provide a list of candidate technical chapters that could be joint with Systems Council Present IEEE Systems Journal as an option for ComSoc member renewals Make information available for SysC Knowledge Engineering Environment web site