The power of continuation--CSS quarter century members

Daniel Y Abramovitch ,Heffron W ,M S Fadali ,Paul P J Van Den Bosch ,Mo-Yuen Chow ,Sebastian Engell ,Dan Leonida ,R.g Jacquot ,Amit Ailon ,John E Mayer ,Gary A Kendrick ,Tzuu-Hseng S Li ,Stephen J Phillips ,Thomas H D Ting ,David L Jacobson ,M Amin ,Manfred Morari ,Paolo Fiorini ,Gregory S Ammar ,David J Kish ,Bo Wahlberg ,Harold Javid ,José R Perán ,George L Hunt ,Ian W Craig ,Harry L Trentelman ,Moshe Kam ,John S Bay ,Robert Setliff ,Kang Lee ,Dobrivoje Popovic ,Hendrik Van Brussel ,Danny Miller ,Marc Ullman ,John M Hollerbach ,Pamela M Hurley ,Minyue Fu ,Pradeep Kumar Misra ,Josef Goette ,Munther A Dahleh ,Janos Gertler ,Francesco Valeri ,Jeffrey L Schiano ,Mario Policastro ,S Prigozy ,Sidman Michael D ,Joel Halpert ,Matthew J Koch ,A Passera ,Hong Sik Lee ,Oleg Nedzelnitsky ,Watcharapong Khovidhungij ,John R Sesak ,Dong-Hwan Hwang ,Shih-Chin Chen ,K B Datta ,Peter Schmidt ,Mark S Andersland ,David A Schoenwald ,Li-Chen Fu ,Mark Furber ,Fredrik Schlyter ,Hanoch Ur ,Enrique Barbieri ,Suzanne Hirschman ,Allen R Miller ,Oleg Burenko ,Raffaele Becherucci ,Philip Tomzik ,Peter Roberts ,Ramesh R Rao ,Richard Oshea ,Marc Jacobs ,Ernest Systrom ,Robert P James ,David Elliott ,David Romero ,Jeff S Shamma ,Yoshikazu Hayakawa ,Robert A Hill ,Kye Taek Lim ,Soh Yeng Chai ,Le Yi Wang ,Stanislaw H Zak

doi:10.1109/mcs.2009.932928

Abstract

Ibecame the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) vice-president, Member Activities (VPMA) in January 2009. In a tradition initiated by Elena Valcher, past VPMA, we continue to recognize the contributions of CSS members of 25 years. Thus far we have recognized 998 members who have been CSS members for 25 years or more. This year, it is our pleasure to add 88 new members. Congratulations to all of these quarter century honorees for their longterm involvement and continuing support of CSS! I believe that continuation is a great power for participation in activities in CSS. The ongoing activities of these members have played an important role within CSS in a variety of aspects, such as conferences, workshops, technical committees, and editorships. The CSS covers diverse research areas, and most fields of engineering and science require advanced control theory and sophisticated methodologies for control system design. In the 1960s, process control was a major interest. In the 1970s, our focus moved to applications in electrical engineering fields such as power network control. In the 1980s, advanced robust and nonlinear control theory was applied to mechanical systems, including robotics, aerospace engineering, and hard disk drive systems. Influenced by the rapid progress of communication and internet technologies, our interests in the 1990s moved to control systems through networks and large-scale systems connected by appropriate communications. In this century, our collaborations have once again expanded, with quantum control and bio control sharing a focus. This quick historical review on control applications suggests that we need to recruit more people from other research areas in science and technology. I am sure that effective collaboration between control members and people in other fields will help achieve initiatives for future technology. Promoting this goal is one of my responsibilities as the vice president for Member Activities. We need both the power of continuation from current members and innovation by newcomers for the continuing progress of CSS.

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