IEEE Racism (Score 1)

IEEE Racism Some years ago a Professor in Belgium with the name: Michel GEVERS , Prof. of Automatic Control in the Universite Catholique de Louvain, published a series of articles on the Web about * Racism of IEEE * Various Financial Frauds of IEEE Officers Michel Gevers was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1945. He obtained an Electrical Engineering degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1968, and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, California, in 1972. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and he holds a Honorary Degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the University of Brussels. He has been President of the European Union Control Association (EUCA) from 1997 to 1999, and Vice President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2000 and 2001. In 2004, he initiated a petition against the IEEE Racism gathering more than 5000 signatures. After being IEEE Felow he removed these Web Pages. However the site: www.anti-plagiarism.org in its earlier version published it Here is the GEVER's petition before IEEE elavated him in the "IEEE Fellow rank" We, the undersigned, state unequivocally that discrimination on the basis of nationality or country of residence goes against the principles of an international scientific organization. Failure to cease this discrimination jeopardizes the future of the IEEE as an international organization. List of Academicians that protest against the IEEE racism : http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/01/list-of-academicians-that-protest.html