Abstract :
This is the end of my first year as president of our society. I have to tell you that it has been a very interesting experience. The reasons are the good group of people in our Administrative Committee (AdCom) and the response from our members from all over the world. The members of the Ad- Com have been working all year on a series of activities. Some of them are well known by you, the publication of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine. However, this year both editors-in-chief of these publications have changed so there are changes in the AdCom. Both Alessandro Ferrero (the Transactions) and Mike Gard (the I&M Magazine) made the transition very smoothly. There are also new ideas for the Magazine, so you will soon see some changes.