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Call for Nominations – IEEE SMC Awards

The Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society recognizes outstanding volunteers and their significant achievements by the presentation of a number of awards. This year’s submission deadline is June 15, 2015….

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In Memoriam: Andrew P. Sage, Jr., an SMC Pioneer

It is with great sadness that IEEE SMC Society announces the passing of Andrew P. Sage Jr. on Oct. 31, 2014. Dr. Sage was a pioneering founding father of the Society, who served as President from 1984 to 1985. He served on the seminal committee that created the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Among…

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Eulogy to Andy Sage

Delivered at his Funeral on November 5, 2014 by Professor Kathryn Laskey, Systems Engineering and Operations Research at George Mason University The world is emptier than it was a week ago. We have lost a leader, a pioneer, an institution builder, a writer, an educator – a man who, in the words of SEOR Department…

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In Memory of Andy Sage

Few people have had such extraordinary impact as Andy Sage has had, as a pioneer and leader in systems engineering, as founding Dean of the School of Engineering at Mason, as a prolific author and as an educator….

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Andrew P. Sage Best Paper Award for 2014

The Andrew P. Sage award for best paper published in the Transactions of the SMC Society for 2014 is “Enabling effective programming and flexible management of efficient body sensor network applications” by Giancarlo Fortino, Roberta Giannantonio, Raffaele Gravina, Philip Kuryloski, Roozbeh Jafari, published in the Transactions on Human Machine Systems 43(1):115-133….

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Professor Mingcong Deng receives 2014 SMC Meritorious Service Award

Mingcong Deng, Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology received the IEEE SMC 2014 Meritorious Service Award for meritorious and significant service to SMC Society-sponsored activities. Dr. Deng served as the IEEE SMC Society Program Chair of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, General Co-Chair of International Conference on Advanced…

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