Editor's Turn

I want to thank everyone who participated in identifying and nominating members of CPMT for the IEEE Fellow Award. The due date for all the write-ups was March 1. It was refreshing to receive spontaneous input from at least 30 members over the last year suggesting those that deserved to be nominated. It is worth noting (with only limited knowledge of those nominations that made it to IEEE by the deadline) that it appears that CPMT Society has nominees from Europe, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and North America. It is also worth mentioning that there is quite a depth of volunteers that qualify for Fellow nomination and our Society appears to have provided opportunities to more this year than in the recent past. A thanks goes out to all the existing Fellows that took the time to review each nominee's credits and wrote reference letters. It is also worth noting that each year about 50% of potential nominees decide not to submit. This is to be expected with all the demands on the time of our active volunteers, however, we all hope that the invitation for nomination is seen as high recognition in itself. Each year about 0.1% of the full IEEE membership can be promoted to the Fellow ranks (about 250).

For this issue I would like to thank all the volunteers who forwarded their paragraphs and pictures. Particularly I would like to thank those that did the interim editing: Pey Kin Leong, Evan Davidson, Dr. P. B. Parikh, Marsha Tickman, Paul Wesling, Merrill Palmer, Vasu Atluri, Leung Chi, Phil Garrou, Donna Noctor, Alina Deutsch, K. Raghunathan, Geyun Zhang, Y. C. Mui, Robert Jackson, Reed Crouch, Ephraim Suhir.