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A vote for me is a vote for someone who has a continuing, longstanding and solid reputation for innovation in both IEEE and in the profession. Be sure to visit my Current Society Activities page for a view of all my professional and volunteer CS activities.
Vote for Reisman
Vote for Sorel Reisman for Division VIII Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect
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STATEMENT It’s just not working anymore! The professional society model that IEEE’s been following for decades is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the international community of young computer professionals. We can’t keep offering the same kinds of programs, offsetting our colleagues’ declining interest by tinkering at the edges of those programs, incrementally increasing annual dues. We must get serious about: challenges of social networking; political implications of a global economy; groundbreaking changes taking place in academia; and the real implications of the “exciting” technologies that we, as individuals and as a profession develop, promote, and sponsor. Getting serious means re-engineering who we are and what we do. And that’s not reorganizing, as we tried to do last year. It means getting creative about what to do to survive and serve the needs of young and future technologists. It means electing experienced and knowledgeable people -- like me — who have demonstrated that we can critically examine organizational entities, policies, practices, products, and services, and work with volunteers and staff, to develop solutions to 21st Century challenges.
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BIO Sorel Reisman is Managing Director of the international, higher education consortium MERLOT at the California State University Office of the Chancellor, and Professor of IS at CSU Fullerton. He has held senior management positions at IBM (Canada & US), Toshiba (US), and EMI (UK). He has presented/published 90 articles including the books Multimedia Computing: Preparing for the 21st Century, and Electronic Learning Communities — Current Issues and Best Practices. He is a Senior IEEE member, Computer Society Golden Core member, member of Eta Kappa Nu, served 2 terms on the board of the Open Education Consortium (formerly the OCWC), is serving as elected Member-at-Large of IEEE Publications, Services, and Products Board (PSPB). Reisman serves on a number of IEEE and non-IEEE journal editorial boards. Received his EE degree, and MA, and PhD in Computer Applications from the University of Toronto. Appointed a Fulbright Specialist in Dec, 2014.
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MULTIMEDIA AND ME Open Resources for MOOCs - difference between MOOCs and Open Education Resources. (IEEE Computer Society Computing Now) .Watch here. IEEE Big Data Initiative interviews me regarding my views of the past, present, and future of "big data." Listen here. Perspectives on eLearning and the Semantic Web. (IEEE Computer Society Computing Now) Watch here. IEEE Talks Big Data: Sorel Reisman & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed. Read Interview here.
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MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS - Computer Society President (2011)
- Appointed many CS committee chairs and VPs — including VP of EAB
- Member of TAB (2011), EAB (2014present), PSPB (2014Present)
- Standing Committee (CEO) of Computer Society signature conference, COMPSAC (2016Present)
- Decades-long Computer Society volunteer; chaired /served on many CS committees, including VP Electronic Products and Services, VP Publications, 2010 President-Elect, 2011 President, 2012 Past President
- Created/negotiated innovative/proactive intersociety activities/programs/MOUs with ACM, Computer Society of India, Information Processing Society of Japan, Brazilian Computer Society, Chinese Computer Federation, and Italian Computer Society, bringing them closer to IEEE. Met IEEE sections/chapters around the world, promoting IEEE membership programs/activities.
- “Invented” CS Special Technical Communities (STCs), online, collaborative special interest group structure — now a major CS initiative.
- Member-at-Large - CS Publications Board for many years; Chair of Magazines Operations Committee for 2, two-year terms. Chaired many EIC searches and served on editorial boards of Software, Multimedia, and IT Pro. Instrumental in launching latter two; currently chair of IT Pro Advisory Board. As CS Publications VP (2008, 2009) oversaw planning/launching of Transaction on Affective Computing. Initiated CS’s anti-plagiarism committee/policies/practices adopted/incorporated by IEEE. Initiated CS’s exploration/incorporation of CSDL into Xplore. Oversaw evolution of CS’s print products to mobile and digital-only.
- EAB (2012-2017) — Continuing Education Committee, TAB representative, member-at-large; EIC of IEEE eLearning Library Board.
- Member-at-Large, IEEE PSPB (2016Present); member of Strategic Planning Committee, developing new IEEE Publications Board Strategic Plan (2014-2016); PSPB Nominations Committee (2017)
- Member xPlore Requirements Ad Hoc Committee (2016Present)
- Member Computer Society 40th Anniversary Planning Ad Hoc (2016)
- Member Computer Society Future of Education Ad Hoc (2017)
- Member IEEE Conference Publishing Committee (2017)
- Education Society member — co-creator/co-chair of CS-sponsored Computing Education track - TALE Conference (2015Present)
- Created IEEE Computer Society - and IEEE Education Society-endorsed CSAB-aligned, MERLOT Open Education Resource digital repositories in Computer Science and Information Technology/Systems.
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