Fred Mintzer a candidate for 2015 IEEE PresidentElect

Fred Mintzer a candidate for 2015 IEEE President-Elect f. mintzer@ieee. org Region 10 1 1/9/2022 22 August 2014

Professional Biography Employed at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, 1978 -2013 – Program Director for IBM’s Blue Gene Watson supercomputer facility § a Top 500 supercomputer center, ranked as high as #2 § simulations of human biology, new materials for computing – Department Manager, Visual Technologies § data visualization, 3 D graphics, image processing – Manager, Image Library Applications § digital libraries, with high-quality imaging and digital rights management, often for web sites of cultural institutions; the National Gallery of Art (USA), the Vatican Library, the Hermitage Museum, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo – Manager, Signal Processing Applications § signal processing theory, applications, hardware Ph. D in EECS from Princeton Employed at CTEC - an operating telephone company BSEE from Rutgers IEEE Fellow over 25 U. S. patents, 50 papers 2 1/9/2022

Selected IEEE Activities VP of Technical Activities 2012 / IEEE Bo. D Division IX Director 2008 -09 / member IEEE TAB / IEEE Bo. D Pres. of IEEE Signal Processing Soc. 2004 -05 / member IEEE TAB Finance – Finance Chair ICIP 95, VP Finance for SPS - a financially-sound society – IEEE Audit Committee, IEEE Insurance Committee, IEEE Investment Committee, IEEE Marketing and Sales, IEEE Employee Benefits and Compensation (Chair) Publications – helped create IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security; helped add language processing to scope of – IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing – Charter EIC, IEEE Technical Community Spotlight – a new every-member publication Conferences – Finance Chair of ICIP 95, Tech Co-chair of 1984 DSP workshop, SPS Conf. Board Membership – Membership Development Committee, Alternate Membership Models Ad Hoc(s), Membership Models Ad Hoc, MGA SDEA Strategy – as SPS’s P-E, developed interlocks between SPS’ LRP and operations – As TAB VP, initiated TAB Long Range Planning … new Mission and Vision statements resulted with focus on technology-centric worldwide communities – TAB Strategic Planning (Chair), IEEE NIC; TAB Awareness and Branding Ad Hoc (Chair) 3 1/9/2022

My priority if elected Priority - providing more of high current value to our members 1. Provide enhanced networking and collaboration opportunities within our IEEE communities, i. e. , regions, sections, chapters, conferences, affinity groups, publications – Helps members remain technically current – Provides opportunities for professional and personal growth – Need a strong set of tools to support collaboration. Professional Productivity and Collaboration Tools are currently under development – Based on Social Media, targeted at the professional audience – Networking is a key capability – Components to support more effective author/researcher collaboration – to better bind the author community to us 4 – Use of Social Media should better serve Young Professionals – A new platform to help reinvigorate publications – article + discussion + video + companion data 1/9/2022

My priority if elected Priority – providing more of high current value 2. Expand emerging technology efforts (such as Smart Cities and the Internet of Thing) – and increase sharing of their results with our members – Centers of tomorrow’s job growth – Of special interest to industrial employees and young professionals 3. Expand IEEE humanitarian efforts – Many members take great pride in them – Help demonstrate that we’re a truly global organization 4. Develop crisper value propositions for important audiences Some audiences are of special interest – Industrial employees/practitioners – Young Professionals – Author/researchers – Tech professionals in emerging economies 5 1/9/2022

Some Recent Contributions … providing more current value to TAB members As VP TA – initiated TAB Long Range Planning effort – New TA mission statement - Inspire, Foster and Empower Technology-Centric Worldwide Communities - shifted emphasis from products to the interactions of its community members As VP TA – increased TAB support of Future Directions’ emerging technology activities – Includes: Smarter Cities, the Internet of Things, Clean Transportation, Green ICT While VP TA – created on-line technical communities centered on Future Directions’ emerging technology activities – open and free to all As VP TA – initiated Membership Models Ad Hoc; this resulted in: – IEEE Technical Community Spotlight - an e-magazine that provides republished magazine articles on emerging technologies and info about participating in emerging technology communities – open and free to all IEEE members As TAB Chair - championed a three-pronged Open Access strategy, which TAB adopted and the Bo. D endorsed 6 1/9/2022

In summary More current value … through enhanced networking & collaboration, expanded emerging technologies www. fredmintzer. net www. facebook. com/pages/Fred-Mintzer-for-2015 -IEEE-President-Elect/238499589674600 Thank you 7 1/9/2022