Book reviews - A history of engineering and science in the bell system, National service in war and peace
IEEE Control Systems Magazine is a new magazine for the control systems society. We hope that it will be an effective channel of communication among the members of the Society. I am honored to be asked to serve as an associate editor for book reviews of this magazine. This will become a reality only with your help. I would like to ask each one of you who is in the teaching profession to consider the following: suppose you teach a course directly related to our members’ interests (optimal control, estimation, identification, digital control, optimization, operations research, stochastic control, control applications, ...I and you are using a recent text; would it be very difficult for you to sit down after the semester is over and write two to three pages reviewing the text? You could certainly include the students’ reactions to the selected text. This would not be very difficult and I hope you seriously consider the above thought. This will be an excellent service for our colleagues and a great help to those who are in the teaching profession. Therefore, I would ask that, after the end of each semester when you had used a new text (or a text which you think has not been reviewed), that you take one to two hours to write a book review and send it to me. I would also appreciate it very much if those members of the society who have been reading and using a book directly related to the interests of the society could take some time to write down their thoughts about the book and mail them to me. In this way, those members which have chosen an academic career will have a chance to hear the opinion of those who are making theory work everyday. I know that with your help, the book reviews section will be an integral and successful part of our new magazine. Peter P. Groumpos, Associate Editor CSM Book Reviews Department of Electrical Engineering Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio 44115 (216) 687-2592