President's Message - 2025 Please find my latest presidential message and all previous presidential messages here. June 2025: Learning the Fundamentals: Some Thoughts on the Present and Future of Controls (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11018150) News Presidential Messages Archive 2025 - Carolyn Beck June 2025: Learning the Fundamentals: Some Thoughts on the Present and Future of Controls April 2025: Diversity, Outreach, and Development in the CSS January 2025: In Control in Control 2024 - Magnus Egerstedt December 2024: So Long, and Thanks for the Fish! October 2024: Just Because the Result Is Correct, It Does Not Mean It Should Be Published August 2024: Survival Rather Than Optimality: Lessons From Ecology June 2024: Long-Range Planning in the IEEE Control Systems Society April 2024: The Global Control Community February 2024: Chatbots as Tools or Existential Threats 2023 - Magnus Egerstedt December 2023: 20 × 6 × 25 × 3 × 3 October 2023: Controls as a Force for Good August 2023: Controls in the Age of AI? June 2023: From Outreach to Inreach April 2023: The Broccoli Curriculum February 2023: Are you Nuts? 2021 - 2022 Thomas Parisini July 2022: "Advanced Control Systems for Data Storage on Magnetic Tape: A Long-Lasting Success Story" by Giovanni Cherubini (IBM Research) June 2022: "Looking Ahead: The CSS Strategic Plan" April 2022: "Why We Do What We Do" by Robert Shorten (Imperial College London) January 2022: "2021: The IEEE Control Systems Society…Under Review" December 2021: "The Theory–Practice–Entrepreneurship Gap,” by Steven Low (Caltech, United States) October 2021: "Open Science and Open Access: An Opportunity Not to Be Missed" July 2021: "CSS Conferences: A “New Normal”?" April 2021: "Toward Autonomous Operations: An Industrialist’s Perspective" January 2021: "The IEEE Control Systems Society: An Inclusive Ecosystem for Volunteers" 2020 - Anuradha Annaswamy October 2020: "Conferences in the IEEE Control Systems Society" August 2020: "Cyberphysical and Human Systems: A New Frontier in Control Systems" June 2020: "Electronic Dissemination" April 2020: "Women in the IEEE Control Systems Society" February 2020: "The Science of Muddling Through" 2019 - Bob Bitmead December 2019: "Three-Quarter-Time Spray" October 2019: "... Like a Lizard Drinking" August 2019: "Does Plan S Serve the IEEE Control Systems Society the Dingo’s Breakfast?" June 2019: "The Good Oil on Control or the Raw Prawn" April 2019: "Tall Poppies of Control" February 2019: "A Clayton’s Regime Change" 2018 - Francesco Bullo December 2018: "A Year in Review" October 2018: "Getting it Write" August 2018: "Nurturing Diversity and Reducing Implicit Evaluation Bias" June 2018: "On the Tools of Our Trade" April 2018: "On Developing World of Copyrights" February 2018: "The Visible Values of Volunteering in the Hidden Technology World" December 2017: President's Interview 2017 - Edwin Chong December 2017: "Do We Have Common Philosophical Presuppositions?" October 2017: "Control and Sustainability" August 2017: "Our Society's Best Practices" June 2017: "Textbook Models: Expanding Applications" April 2017: "The Control Problem" February 2017: "To Control, with Love" December 2016: President's Interview 2016 - Francis (Frank) J. Doyle III December 2016: "Oh, the Places You'll Go" October 2016: "Reflections on the Convergence Paradigm" August 2016: "IEEE Control Systems Society and IFAC" June 2016: "Control and Biology" April 2016: "The Evolving Landscape of IEEE Control Systems Society Publishing" February 2016: "The Many Faces of Control" December 2015: President's Interview 2015 - Maria Elena Valcher December 2015: "Discovering China" October 2015: "The Joy of Research" August 2015: "The Value of Conferences" June 2015: "The Impact of Control: Do We Have an Impact?" April 2015: "Ethics in Publishing and the Reuse of Previously Published Material" February 2015: "Peer Review" December 2014: President's Interview 2014 - Jay A. Farrell December 2014: "The Perspective One Year Later" October 2014: "Control Ambassadors" August 2014: "CSS Governance: Theories and Practice" June 2014: "Impact of Control" April 2014: "Prediction Is Very Difficult, Especially About the Future" February 2014: "A Society of Volunteers" December 2013: President's Interview 2013 - Yutaka Yamamoto December 2013: "Internationalization - A Default Virtue?" October 2013: "Recognition by Peers, Society Business, and Various Thoughts on Culture and Writing" August 2013: "Theory, Invention, and Practice" June 2013: "Citing Others' Work" April 2013: "Presentation Skills" February 2013: "A Renewed Thought on Professional Societies" December 2012: President's Interview 2012 - Christos G. Cassandras December 2012: "A Year in Retrospect" October 2012: "Open Access and the Future of Scientific Publishing" August 2012: "Plagiarism and Other Sins" June 2012: "Fifty Years of CDCs: Rises, Falls, and Trends in Systems and Control" April 2012: "It's Just So Darn Hard..." February 2012: "A Healthy Identity Crisis" December 2011: President's Interview 2011 - Rick Middleton December 2011: "The Half Century" October 2011: "Memories and Lessons from Adaptive Control" August 2011: "Challenges and Future Directions" June 2011: "Publications" April 2011: "Conferences on Decision and Control" February 2011: "What Does "Control" Have to Offer?" December 2010: President's Interview 2010 - Roberto Tempo December 2010: "Mountains and Control" October 2010: "The Data Deluge and Obliquity for Control" August 2010: "Handwriting, Typing, and LaTex" June 2010: "From Hard Copy to Electronic" April 2010: "Research, a Never-Ending Story" February 2010: "Internationalization and Globalization" December 2009: President's Interview 2009 - Tariq Samad December 2009: "Applications, Definitions, Transitions"
President's Message - 2025 Please find my latest presidential message and all previous presidential messages here. June 2025: Learning the Fundamentals: Some Thoughts on the Present and Future of Controls (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11018150) News
