Presidential Message Archive
2019 - Bob Bitmead
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
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
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
2011 - Rick Middleton
August 2011: Challenges and Future Directions
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
2009 - Tariq Samad
December 2009: Applications, Definitions, Transitions