Editor’s Turn
My thanks to all the volunteers that submitted copy for this Newsletter. Included are Andrew Tay, Harvey Miller, Marsha Tickman, John Stafford, and Jim Morris.
We are getting an increased number of news items due to the growing activities of your Society. However, we are trying to hold the Newsletter to 24 pages with a minimum of ads to continue to take little of your time to catch up on what happened and is about to happen in your Society. If you know the 7 secrets to efficiency you should be able to page through this newsletter and rip out and file those items you need for action in 5 minutes. The rest is trash for you.
Or if you are like me you will receive it in the mail and put it on one of many stacks of unread but possibly valuable mail at your house and office. Then at a later date, when you need to know about some call for paper or meeting program you will spend 30 minutes searching for the Newsletter followed by 1 minute of reading.
How can we help? Possibly by putting the newsletter on the World Wide Web so you can find it quickly. The newsletter is usually composed in the standard word processor of today "Microsoft Word" on the standard operating system of today "Windows 95". If you want to volunteer to prepare a simple process of taking the Word file and turning it to a similar web file, please call me.
Are we creating another "stack" of unread material on the web. Undoubtedly, but with the distinction of letting the reader quickly target what they want to read using computer search.
-- Dave Palmer, editor, <d.palmer@ieee.org>