Posts By: Alan Chong

Free Online Event: PCS Chapter of IEEE Philadelphia, May 29th, 2024

Join the PCS Chapter of IEEE Philadelphia on May 29, 2024  at 7pm Eastern time for a book review and discussion. Topics include Nakamura’s Brilliant! and  Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.

ZOOM:Topic: Engineering Book Review/Discussion: PCS Chapter of IEEE PhiladelphiaTime: May 28, 2024 …

Become an IEEE Senior Member!

Senior Member is the highest grade of IEEE membership for which a member can apply.  Only 10% of the 400,000 members of IEEE are Senior Members.  We would love to see more of our colleagues in the Professional Communication Society applying for this honor.  

Benefits of …

Candidates on Slate for 2024-2026 Board of Governors

A slate of six candidates for election to the ProComm Board of Governors for 2024–2026 has been announced.

Edward A Rezek, Senior Vice President of IEEE Smart Village

Alison Hutchison, Cornell University

Pam Estes Brewer, Mercer University

Jordan Smith, University of North Texas.

Zhijun Gao, Peking University

Bremen Vance, Mercer University

The election …

Call for Board of Governors (BoG) Nominations 2023

The IEEE Professional Communication Society is managed by a Board of Governors comprising 12 volunteers who work to assure that our society serves its members and the field of technical and professional communication. If you are interested in a higher level of involvement in the society …

Call for Proposals for Special Issue for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (September 2024)

Topic: Building Bridges Between Technical and Professional Communication and Translation Studies

Guest Editors: Belén López-Arroyo (University of Valladolid), Xiaobo Wang (Sam Houston State University), and Suguru Ishizaki (Carnegie Mellon University)

In the digitally-driven era of globalization, international professionals are increasingly faced with challenges of communicating with non-native …

The Risks and Benefits of Chat GPT 

By Kohava Mendelsohn

Recently, Chat GPT was released for use by the public by OpenAI. It is an extremely advanced AI chat bot that can answer queries for you. I think of it as a very advanced autocomplete system, taking in input as questions and outputting …