Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell

Farewell

There is no difference between saying goodbye or see you later, because the content of what you say, and not the form, is what counts. One should be able to say goodbye to the people one loves. This is the final goodbye to a younger “older” sister who never stopped backing me up. I do not know whether to start from the beginning or the end, but the beginning and end have their meeting point and...

Hail suppression and society.

An interdisciplinary assessment of hail suppression in the past, present, and future has shown it to be currently scientifically uncertain but a potentially beneficial future technology. An established suppression technology would be widely adopted in the Great Plains, providing benefits to agriculture and secondarily to the American consumer. Development of a reliable technology will require a...

Farewell Wilfred

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely death of our friend and colleague, Wilfred Röling, on September 25th. Wilfred was a truly inspirational scholar active in a range of topics within environmental microbiology and microbial biotechnology, and was one of only a handful of researchers worldwide able to effectively combine wet and in silico science. The loss to scholarly endeavo...

Farewell Editorial

AFTER experiencing a very rewarding period of service, my term as the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) ends on 31 December 2016. It was an honor for me to guide and influence the technical growth related to a very timely area of research through the publications in the leading journal of mobile computing. Since the inception of TMC in 2002, we have come a...