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It is with great sadness that IEEE SMC Society announces the passing of Andrew P. Sage Jr….

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…

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….

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….

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…

Dr. Jianbo Su is Professor in the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was born in Nov., 1969 and received the B. S. degree in control theory and control engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1989, the M.S. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System from Institute of Automation, Chinese…