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Editorial

by M.E. El-Hawary

Remarkable Careers
and High-Achieving
Communities

T

he phrase "If I have seen further, it is only because I have
stood on the shoulders of
giants" is attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. To paraphrase, we of the present generation see further thanks to
the insights of those who have come
before us. To make progress building on the work of earlier generations, we need the contributions of
our high-achieving contemporaries
who lead us to further discoveries
that enhance our understanding
and enable the development of new
results to make the world better for
those in the days to come.
Scanning the previous issues of
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine reveals that the promise to celebrate excellence among us
is being fulfilled by publishing articles that focus on the achievements
of individuals whose work inf luenced specific areas of our field.
The July 2018 issue included a tribute
column celebrating the life of Lotfi
A. Zadeh, father of fuzzy logic, who
recently passed away. Thank you to
the panel of prominent members of
our community, led by Prof. Mo Jamshdi, for a job well done.
Many of our members have distinguished themselves by innovative
contributions in academic and technical areas. Thanks to the leadership
of Prof. Choon Ki Ahn, the July 2018
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systems. This distinction is one of the
highest professional honors accorded
an engineer. Qiangfu Zhao organized
the feature article "Dimitar Filev: A Pioneer in Car Intelligence: Celebrating
his Career and National Academy of
Engineering Induction" in that issue.
Two articles related to Peng Shi's
work on Markovian jump systems also
appeared in the April issue. The first was
issue also featured a six-page feature
"Bayesian State Estimations for Markovarticle that recognized the techniian Jump Systems: Employing Recurcal contributions of Peng Shi. Shi is
sive Steps and Pseudocodes" by Shunyi
a highly regarded professor at the
Zhao, Choon Ki Ahn, Peng Shi, Yuriy S.
School of Electrical and Electronic
Shmaliy, and Fei Liu, and the second was
Engineering of the
"A Brief Tutorial and
University of AdSurvey on MarkovWe of the present
elaide, Australia.
ian Jump Systems:
The January 2019
Stability and Congeneration see
issue included a spetrol" by Ping Zhao,
further thanks
cial section honoring
Yu Kang, and Yun-Bo
to the insights of
the work of systems,
Zhao. The articles
those who have
man, and cybernetics
are a continuation
(SMC) visionaries.
of the celebration of
come before us.
György Eigner orgaPeng Shi's Markovian
nized the feature arjump legacy.
ticle that celebrated the contributions
The recognition of technical achieveof Imre Rudas as a strong leader in
ments in SMC is not limited to indithe IEEE community. Prof. Bernadette
viduals; it also extends to areas, such
Bouchon-Meunier and Dr. Dimitar Fias cybernetics, as evidenced by the
article by Vladimir Marik in the Janulev coordinated the article recognizing
ary 2017 issue on the SMCS technical
the achievements of Ronald R. Yager,
committees (TCs) in the field of cyberthe 2018 Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award
netics. In addition, Desheng Dash Wu
winner, who is a groundbreaking figand James H. Lambert's article on the
ure of the fuzzy set and intelligent sysTC on Social and Economic Security
tems community. The third entry in the
was published in the April 2018 issue.
January issue special section, "Brains
I note, with gratitude to Prof. MarAre Not Computers: Celebrating the
got Weijnen, that this issue includes
Achievements of Robert Kozma," was a
a special section on next-generation
tribute by Bernard Baars, Roman Ilin,
infrastructure (the TC on InfrastrucMiklós Ruszinkó, and Edward Tunstel.
ture Systems and Services). This is the
In the April 2019 issue, we noted
first of its type, and we look forward to
that the IEEE SMC Society (SMCS)
more special sections celebrating the
community was elated to learn of the
achievements of our SMCS TCs. We
elevation of Dr. Dimitar Filev to fellow
also have a special section celebratof the National Academy of Engineering the IEEE Smart Village Initiative,
ing for contributions to automotive
which attests to IEEE's contributions
research and practice in the fields of
to serving humanity.
intelligent information and control

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