It's hard to believe the economy is "slow" considering the good turn out at the recent EMC Society regional tabletop shows. There was great attendance at the Wireless 2002 event organized in Bellevue this February as well as at the tutorials presented by Clayton Paul in Phoenix and Milwaukee this March. Exhibitors of EMC products and services strongly supported these events. Companies gladly supported these events by sending a good number of registrants to attend the technical programs. These tabletop shows provide an excellent networking opportunity for the speakers, registrants and vendors. It's always nice to get out of the office and meet members of the EMC community in your area. You'll find profiles of these tabletop shows and several photos in the Chapter Chatter column of this Newsletter on page 8

Did you read the special issue of the Transactions on EMC dated February 2002? This issue was devoted to the career of the late Moto Kanda of NIST. The guest editors were Christopher Holloway and Perry Wilson of NIST in Boulder, Colorado. I was very impressed with the body of work in this issue. Moto was interested in many different areas of EMC. It was quite impressive to read about his interests and also to see the caliber of authors who contributed to the issue, including his two sons. I encourage you to read or thumb through this issue of the Transactions on EMC. It's interesting to note that in this issue of the Newsletter, we have a paper on the history of NIST by Dennis Friday, Chief, Radio-Frequency Technology Division, NIST. Please refer to page 22. In the next issue of the Newsletter, Christopher Holloway, Dennis Camell, and their colleagues at NIST will contribute an article on the history of NIST related specifically to EMC. I am sure that Moto's name will come up more than once in that article.

Finally, among the many interesting articles and photos in this Newsletter, we announce the move of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on EMC from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Istanbul, Turkey. A new advertisement for the Istanbul venue may be found on page 36 along with an article by the Symposium Chairman, Elya Joffe on page 37. I am sure this was not an easy decision to make, although it was a prudent one given the Middle East tensions.

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