What's the priority of open access for the IEEE Computer Society? Thomas M.…

"Thomas M. Conte and Roger U. Fujii are running to be the next president of the IEEE Computer Society. In their campaign statements, Conte makes OA a priority and Fujii is silent on the subject.

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"From Conte: "As Vice President of Publications for the last two terms, I have strived to make all Computer Society publications Open Access: freely available to everyone around the world. Meanwhile, I reject the idea that Open Access somehow means we must compromise the quality of our publications. IEEE leadership tells us that this future is "scary" —publication subscriptions funding IEEE headquarters will go away. I do not think that's scary at all. Rather, the IEEE's bureaucracy must shrink accordingly." ..."