“I didn’t know much about it, but I knew it involved computers.” That’s what stuck out in my mind when I asked her how she had first become interested in computers, and she told the story of seeing computer punch cards for the first time.

Today, Jill is a Principal Research Scientist and the Deputy Director of the Information and Communications Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and is currently on the Society’s Board of Governors and the Membership and Geographic Activities Board as the Vice Chair for Geographic Activities. In 2016, Jill won the Georgia Women in Technology (WIT) Woman of the Year award for the medium business category (251 to 2,500) employees.

But we are skipping to the end of the story, so let’s go back to the beginning…. Continue…

CS Member and volunteer from the Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology (SNIST) student chapter, Murlidhar Sarda provided an update on the chapter’s activities. The article highlights an initiative conducted in late summer for introducing new students to the benefits of the Computer Society and offering free training on various technical skills.

By Murlidhar Sarda

The IEEE Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology (SNIST) student branch conducted a Membership Development Expo in the late summer to educate students and parents attending an orientation program held on the same day. Continue…

On April 27 and 28, Fakhrul Yusoff, a Distinguished Visitor Program speaker from Region 8 and a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Science Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), visited two universities in Pakistan—COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbotabad and Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. Continue…