Raising the Bar: Ensuring Quality Products and Services for Our Members

I want to start 2016 by thanking the members and volunteers who produce our 13 award-winning magazines and 20 scholarly journals, present more than 17,000 conference papers at our 200+ technical conferences each year, develop our internationally renowned 300+ software, hardware, and wireless standards, and de ne the highly acclaimed bodies of knowledge in software and systems engineering. The Computer Society’s nancial sustainability in 2016 is on track as we build on the achievements of past presidents, most recently Dejan Milojičić (2014) and Tom Conte (2015). Milojičić’s concept of a tiered membership model is ready for rollout this year. We recognize that potential new members might want a more tailored version of traditional membership, and this new model allows them to choose from a preset package of bene ts at a lower price than full membership. Of course, traditional membership with full bene ts is still available. In the conferences area, Conte proposed a new conference nancial Raising the Bar: Ensuring Quality Products and Services for Our Members