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Your Magazine (From the Editor) - Control Systems Magazine, IEEE

Surely, you’ve read in-flight magazines, even when you’ve had work to do. Articles on fascinating subjects such as the science of laughter and the world’s best concierge are hard to resist. But suppose you’d tucked the magazine you’re now reading into the seat pocket in front of you and then inadvertently abandoned it upon reaching your destination. What chain of events might such an oversight ...

Lifestreams: Organizing your Electronic Life

The "Web," an attempt to organize the electronic world, has become the focus of a wide range of research activities from agents to information retrieval to virtual reality systems, and is a central focus of work presented at this symposium. Our work considers a more humble task: that of organizing our own electronic lives. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a u...

Self-organizing spots get under your skin

Sixty-five years after Turing first revealed the potential of systems with local activation and long-range inhibition to generate pattern, we have only recently begun to identify the biological elements that operate at many scales to generate periodic patterns in nature. In this Primer, we first review the theoretical framework provided by Turing, Meinhardt, and others that suggests how periodi...

The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

From the Editor-in-Chief: Make Some Time to Share Your Creative Ideas and Best Practices!

Editorial May brings warmer weather, the end of a semester, and the beginning of what I like to call " conference season. " Conferences are an important venue for sharing our work and rejuvenating our teaching. Biology educators will have an opportunity to gather at many interesting meetings and conferences this summer to share new ideas and best practices. Of course, the American Society for M...