President's Message - 2020 Welcome to the IEEE Control Systems Society Control is everywhere: Aircraft and spacecraft, process plants and factories, homes and buildings, automobiles and trains, cellular telephones and networks, power grids and biological processes, drones and self-driving cars. These and other complex systems are illustrations of control theory and control technology. Dedicated to the governance, regulation, and realization of a desired performance in any complex system, methods, algorithms, and tools developed by control researchers have been widely used by generations of engineers and scientists to solve problems of practical importance. Wherever dynamics and feedback are involved, control becomes an essential tool. Control is seen as the paragon of rigor and the foundation that formalizes the systems perspective by experts in other disciplines, and used as an essential building block for developing large-scale, safety-critical, and mission-critical systems. The IEEE Control Systems Society is the leading global professional society for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners. Founded in 1954, the IEEE CSS has been at the forefront of control systems theory and technology for over 65 years. Its focus is to promote scientific, technological, and educational advancements in the fields of systems and control, theory and applications, all over the world. It provides top-tier publications, conferences, networking, and career development opportunities for its members and larger technical community. We invite you to explore this website to get started. You can find my latest presidential message here. All previous presidential messages can be found here. You can find out more about the impact of control technology in the reports, The Impact of Control Technology (First Edition; Second Edition). These two reports present recent accomplishments in control systems research, highlight research directions and challenging problems for the field, and elucidates the contributions and potential of control within and beyond the boundaries of the discipline. I would like to invite you to reach out to me with any thoughts, ideas, or news that help us promote the activities of CSS. Anuradha Annaswamy IEEE CSS President, 2020 News Presidential Messages Archive 2019 - Bob Bitmead February 2019: "A Clayton’s Regime Change" April 2019: "Tall Poppies of Control" June 2019: "The Good Oil on Control or the Raw Prawn" August 2019: "Does Plan S Serve the IEEE Control Systems Society the Dingo’s Breakfast?" October 2019: "... Like a Lizard Drinking" December 2019: "Three-Quarter-Time Spray" 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 - 2020 Welcome to the IEEE Control Systems Society Control is everywhere: Aircraft and spacecraft, process plants and factories, homes and buildings, automobiles and trains, cellular telephones and networks, power grids and biological processes, drones and self-driving cars. These and other complex systems are illustrations of control theory and control technology. Dedicated to the governance, regulation, and realization of a desired performance in any complex system, methods, algorithms, and tools developed by control researchers have been widely used by generations of engineers and scientists to solve problems of practical importance. Wherever dynamics and feedback are involved, control becomes an essential tool. Control is seen as the paragon of rigor and the foundation that formalizes the systems perspective by experts in other disciplines, and used as an essential building block for developing large-scale, safety-critical, and mission-critical systems. The IEEE Control Systems Society is the leading global professional society for researchers and cutting-edge practitioners. Founded in 1954, the IEEE CSS has been at the forefront of control systems theory and technology for over 65 years. Its focus is to promote scientific, technological, and educational advancements in the fields of systems and control, theory and applications, all over the world. It provides top-tier publications, conferences, networking, and career development opportunities for its members and larger technical community. We invite you to explore this website to get started. You can find my latest presidential message here. All previous presidential messages can be found here. You can find out more about the impact of control technology in the reports, The Impact of Control Technology (First Edition; Second Edition). These two reports present recent accomplishments in control systems research, highlight research directions and challenging problems for the field, and elucidates the contributions and potential of control within and beyond the boundaries of the discipline. I would like to invite you to reach out to me with any thoughts, ideas, or news that help us promote the activities of CSS. Anuradha Annaswamy IEEE CSS President, 2020 News
