Long Range Planning Committee Report

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Long Range Planning Committee Report
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Long Range Planning Committee

• Membership
• Dick Volz (Chair), George Bekey, Paolo Dario,
  Paolo Fiorini, Ken Goldberg, Bill Hamel, Katsu
  Ikeuchi, Makoto Kaneko, Suk Han Lee, Tony
  Maciejewski, Dave Orin, Nikos Papanikolopoulos,
  Roland Siegwart, T. J. Tarn, Junku Yuh

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Strategy

• Develop plans in phase with IEEE Initiative
  funding cycle
• Proposals due to IEEE in April of year before
  initiative begins
• Thus, target having proposals by 4/1/05
• Remainder of 2005 organizing approved activities

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Planning Areas

• Conference Improvement (Lumelsky)
• Conference quality
• Guidance for conference organizers
• Increasing standardization for paper processing
• Wider, evolving participation in organization
• Managing conference costs
• Educational Directions (Fiorini)
• Conference tutorials at 10 for students
• Education tracks for students at ICRA
• Educational material on the web

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Planning Areas

• Member Services (Papanikolopouos)
• Mentoring young faculty
• Mentoring advanced Ph.D. students
• Public awareness
• Surveys (Hamel)
• Plan to make LRPC the home for society surveys
• Planning being initiated
• Electronic services
• Strengthening AdCom awareness