Conference chair: Thank you

Thank you for your attendance at the 2010 ICNS Conference. It is your continued support of this conference and others like it that keeps the ICNS family a close-knit one. Throughout my career I continue to run across and do business with many of the same people that I have met through my association with these conferences. I have found that while people´s affiliations and geographical locations may change from time to time, the relationships that we build at conferences endure over the long term. The 2010 ICNS was in fact rich in technical and programmatic content, but it also provided this long-term continuity of relationships for many of the people attending. In addition to the networking, plenary and technical presentations, and exhibits we have all come to expect from the ICNS, we continue to experiment with new ways of providing value to our attendees. This year we added a Student Best Paper Award. We had over 20 quality student papers submitted and awarded certificates and cash to: Best Paper Award: “Rigorous Bounding of Position Error Estimates for Aircraft Surface Movement”. Kyle O´Brien, Jason Rife. (Tufts University) Innovative Idea Award: “Ontology-based CNS Software Development”. Eduard Gringinger, Dieter Eier, Dieter Merkel (Vienna University of Technology).