My plan was to send for your approval the text I would have included as message of the chairman in a newsletter due April-May which would have included also modifications and suggestions. It's now certain that it will take place in Monterrey on June 28th and I will be there, also in my quality of member of TAB Executive Committee. Therefore I have decided to wait till then, because the resolutions of that meeting could have some influence on our TC, which I believe can only be beneficial. The IEEE CS perceives itself is at a turning point and thinks it has to redefine its role. It is still viewed by many members as a gigantic bureaucratic organization which exists for the glorification of a few.
Membership is slightly decreasing.
To me, the fact that I have been able to convince them to start activities in computer generated music indicates that there are at least some redeeming points. As engineers will be more and more involved in activities such as multimedia, they will need a kind of education and environment that takes into account aspects requiring artitistic, intuitive and qualitative appreciation - not just differential equations. Something which has been obvious to computer musicians all along, who double as scientists and artists. Proposals of this kind will consitute my contribution to the meeting.