I am pleased to welcome you to another
edition of IEEE SMC Society e-Newsletter.
We
have just completed another highly successful 2003 IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics,
our flagship conference full-sponsored by SMC Society.
It was another exiting and fruitful experience, as usual,
to be present there with hundreds of most prolific researchers
in the fields of Systems, Man and Cybernetics from all
over the world, and to meet with many of our active,
sociable SMC Society members. I would like to remind
our readers that our next major conference will be the
inaugural IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and
Control, March 21—23 2004, in Taipei. For more
information, please refer to http://ins.cn.nctu.edu.tw/icnsc2004.
To check out for more information about SMCS sponsored
and in-cooperated conferences, please go to the section
“Conferences” within this Newsletter and
use the links therein.
I would like to encourage SMCS members
to actively contribute to your Newsletter. We are constantly
working on broadening the Newsletter in breadth and
depth.
We will be having new officers for SMC’s officer
positions, and Board of Governors who were elected at
the last month’s Board of Governors meeting to
work with from next year. I take this opportunity, firstly,
to thank all outgoing officers for their excellent work
and cooperation over the last few years. Congratulations
to all newly elected for your new positions, I am looking
forward to working with you all.
I take this opportunity also to convey
my greetings to the SMC Society members whose membership
has been promoted to the grade of IEEE Fellow recently
giving the due recognition to their outstanding contributions
and exceptional profession distinctions.
If you are yet to become an IEEE member,
I encourage you to apply for the membership, and take
this opportunity to join SMC Society and actively involve
in our society activities.
Thank you for your contributions to
this edition of Newsletter. I eagerly expect your contributions,
comments and suggestions to the IEEE SMCS e-Newsletter
as we are dedicated to make this publication give maximum
reader satisfaction.
Tsu-Tian
Lee,
Newsletter Editor, IEEE SMC
Chair Professor
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
E-mail: ttlee@cn.nctu.edu.tw
