What's New at the IEEE Computer Society

Magazine Roundup

Find out what's new and noteworthy in the Computer Society's 13 peer-reviewed technical magazines. 

Upcoming Events

• New Computer Society Learning Webinar Series: On Thursday, 21 April at 2 pm ET, Board of Governors members Jill Gostin and Rob Reilly will discuss Computer Society Chapters. If you missed any of the previous webinars, you can view the recordings here. 
• 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 16): 14-22 May in Austin, TX
• Cognitive Computing Conference (NFIC 16): 17 May at Stanford University in California. This conference will explore the rapidly changing field of cognitive computing, where we are now with AI and robotics, and what our future with machines is going to look like.
• Rock Stars of Cybersecurity: 26 May in Singapore
• Rock Stars of Big Data: 3 November in Austin, TX 

Awards

• Call for Applications: The ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students whose research focus is on high-performance computing applications, networking, storage, or large-scale data analysis using the most powerful computers that are currently available. Recipients receive a $5,000 honorarium, travel and registration for SC16, and recognition at the SC16 Awards Ceremony. Deadline to apply is 1 May 2016.
• Nominations are being sought for the B. Ramakrishna Rau Award, honoring contributions to the computer microarchitecture field. The deadline to nominate is 1 May 2016. 
• Dr. Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft's Developer Division has received the 2016 Harlan Mills Award for research and research leadership contributions leading to major theoretical and practical advances in software verification. The award will be presented at ICSE on 19 May 2016.
• Professor at the University of Virginia Mark Sherriff is named 2016 Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award Recipient. The award will be presented at the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Annual Awards Ceremony in Atlanta, GA, USA. 
• Five recipients of the 2016 Technical Achievement Award were named: Prof. Jason Cong of the University of California, Los Angeles, for setting the algorithmic foundations for high-level synthesis of field programmable gate arrays; Dr. Patrick Flynn of the University of Notre Dame for pioneering the development of techniques for biometric identification using face, eye, and ear attributes and for creating a world-class multi-biometric image database for research and real applications; Dr. Yong Rui  of Microsoft Research Asia for pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval; Prof. Pierangela Samarati of Università degli Studi di Milano for pioneering and outstanding contributions to data security and privacy; and Dr. Sushil Jajodia of George Mason University for outstanding contributions in network vulnerability analysis and cybersituational awareness, resulting in seminal papers, patents, and a commercial system. 
• IEEE CS Past President Michael R. Williams has received the 2016 Richard E. Merwin Award in recognition of exemplary contributions to the computing profession through outstanding scholarship and enduring and committed volunteer participation and leadership of the IEEE Computer Society. 
• Take a moment to nominate a CS staff member for the Harry Hayman Award for their long and distinguished service to the Computer Society. Nomination deadline is 31 December 2016. 

Call for Papers

• Programming abstractions and toolkits allowing developers to build multi-device applications
• User Interface paradigms providing novel and intuitive multi-device interaction capabilities
• Internet-of-Things architectures for heterogeneous systems
• Designing for low-power operation through multidevice support
• Novel applications spanning a diversity of devices
• Case studies for the use of device-spanning applications
• Security and privacy in a multi-device environment
• Systems that combine mobile and fixed infrastructure
• Crowdsourcing techniques enabled by heterogeneity
• Context-awareness enabled by sharing state among devices
• Sharing resources between diverse computers
• Performance enhancement through diversity

Engineering Code of Ethics

With an eye toward formalizing the field, the IEEE Computer Society has engaged in several activities to advance the professionalism of software engineering, such as establishing certification requirements for software developers. To complement this work, a joint task force of the Computer Society and ACM has recently established another linchpin of professionalism for software engineering: a code of ethics. After an extensive review process, version 5.2 of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, recommended last year by the IEEECS Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices, was adopted by both the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. Learn more about this important contribution to the field.