Editor's Column: 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...

The editors' farewell and a confident look back to the future.

T he first issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) was published in January 1988 [1], 2 years before the birth of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) [2]. The ERJ was not an ex nihilo creation, neither was it a transformation from one single predecessor journal. Rather, the ERJ came to life from a remarkable joint effort of two distinct and yet complementary journals, namely the Bull...

Guest Editors’ Column Reading Sideways: Middlebrow into Modernism

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...