Celebrating Milestones, Preparing for the Future

Celebrating a Decade of Progress and Preparing for the Future: Ocean Information for Research and Application

This paper provides a retrospective of how the ocean observation system has evolved since OceanObs‟99. It also provides research and application examples indicating how the next decade of development for ocean observations will evolve to become an integral component of climate services. The paper begins with the original motivation and reasons for organizing the OceanObs‟99 Conference, and with...

ASTHO at 75: Celebrating the Past and Preparing for the Future

On March 23, 1942, the organization we know today as ASTHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, was officially “born.” Well before 1942, however, state and territorial health officials convened to network, discuss public health priorities, exchange information, and advocate for the work of governmental public health. Historical reports show that as early as 1879, the indi...

Milestones celebrating key advances since 1840

Milestones for Computing Future

Vinton Cerf in Communications of the ACM 07/2015, 7 calls for setting anniversary milestones for Computing Future similar to the Hilbert program. At the end of 19 century mathematicians started doubting whether or not some of the problems they were working on for long time do or do not have solutions. At the 1900 International Conference on Mathematics held in Paris, Hilbert proposed 23 unsolve...

Preparing for the Future

The European Tripartite Group composed of ESA, the European Commission and EUROCONTROL is implementing, through the EGNOS project, the European contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-1). EGNOS, aimed at augmenting GPS and Glonass navigation, will provide and guarantee navigation signals for aeronautical, maritime and land mobile TransEuropean network applications. ESA is r...