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5 unusual facts about IEEE Computer Society


American Federation of Information Processing Societies

The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) became the sponsor of the Goode Award, and took over publication of Annals (renamed the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing).

Charles Geschke

In 2008 he received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society.

David H. Bailey

In 1993, Bailey received the Sidney Fernbach award from the IEEE Computer Society, as well as the Chauvenet Prize and the Hasse Prize from the Mathematical Association of America.

National University of Engineering

Mario R. Barbacci is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), he was the founding chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 10.2 (Computer Descriptions and Tools) and has served as Vice-President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computer Society, founding chairman of the Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACM Steering Committee for the Establishment of Software Engineering as a Profession.

Richard H. Stern

Since 1982 he has been Legal Editor and a member of the Board of Editors of IEEE Micro, a magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society, and author of the magazine's Micro Law column, and has written a number of articles in the fields.


Alexis Leon

Leon is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Computer Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), and the Computer Society of India (CSI).

Software Process Achievement Award

The Software Process Achievement Award is a non-competitive award offered by the IEEE Computer SocietySoftware Engineering Institute (SEI) and annually presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the field of software quality.


see also

Yale Patt

2005 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance processor design"