Editor´s Overview, Dec. 1976

This issue of the TRANSACTIONS is devoted to the 1976 International Microwave Symposium and, along with the Symposium Digest, serves as the archival record for the Symposium. The papers included in this issue are in all cases extensions of the summaries given in the Digest and cover more current information given at the presentations. Included here also are overview descriptions of the principal functions of the Symposium, the technical program, exhibits, social programs, and members of the committees responsible for the symposium. Our annual Awards Banquet is of particular interest since it is the one meeting at which we honor our outstanding contributors for the preceding year.