APRIL 2013 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 21

New Edition of CSSs The Impact of Control Technology Report

PUBL I CATI ON ACTI VI TI ES


I
n 2011 the IEEE Control Systems
Society (CSS) published a report
titled The Impact of Control Tech-
nology that was edited by Tariq
Samad and Anuradha Annaswamy
(as discussed in IEEE Control Systems
Magazine, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 2627, Octo-
ber 2011). This report is available free
of charge at www.ieeecss.org/main/
IoCT-report. Now the Society is spon-
soring the preparation of a new and
revised edition. The new report will
also be freely available on the CSS
Web site. In addition, a print version is
expected to be available for purchase.
The new edition will consist
entirely of two-page flyers in Success
Stories and Research Challenges
sections (these were Parts 2 and 4 in
the original). These sections were a
novel and especially popular feature
of the original report.
We invite contributions from all
CSS members and IEEE Control Systems
Magazine readers to the new edition:
Success Stories flyers should
highlight practical successes of
advanced control technology.
Some documentation of soci-
etal/industrial benefit should
be included.
Research Challenges flyers
should highlight opportunities
for future impact through
advances in control research.
These flyers are intended to inspire
control researchers and to exemplify
the accomplishments and the prom-
ise of our field to those not already
immersed in it. Thus the audience
is not solely control engineers and
scientists. Content should be pre-
pared accordingly.
If you are interested in contribut-
ing, please contact the report editors
at samad@ieee.org and aanna@mit.edu
immediately. The editors will need the
text and graphic content in an approxi-
mate two-page formatplease see
Parts 2 and 4 of the report for exam-
ples. Polished material is not required;
the final layout will be done by a public
relations and advertising agency with
your review/approval.
Our goal in this undertaking is
to help promote our field, both to
those in it already and to those who
are not. If you share this vision we
would like to hear from you as soon
as possible!
Tariq Samad and
Anuradha Annaswamy
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCS.2012.2234933
Date of publication: 14 March 2013
We invite contributions from all CSS members
and IEEE Control Systems Magazine readers
to the new edition.