Prof. William S. Levine was named Associate Editor at Large of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, starting Jan. 1, 1998.

Prof. Steven Marcus was named to the editorial board for a new book series on Advances in Design and Control, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Prof. André Tits was appointed Editor, Technical Notes and Correspondence for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Prof. Chi H. Lee was elected President of the Photonics Society of Chinese Americans (PSC). PSC currently has 800 members including Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee, and many members of the American Academy of Sciences or Engineering, such as Dr. Tingye Li. Lee will serve a one year term.

Prof. H.C. Lin co-authored a book titled "Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Technology," IEEE Press, 1998.

Prof. Isaak Mayergoyz wrote a book titled "Nonlinear Diffusion of Electromagnetic Fields," Academic Press, 1998.

"The Control Handbook," edited by Prof. William Levine, was contracted on December 8, 1997, to be translated/reprinted in India. The book was published by CRC Press LLC, in cooperation with IEEE Press. It was previously given the award ?Best Engineering Handbook? of 1996.

Prof. Edward Ott's book titled "Chaos in Dynamical Systems," was translated/reprinted into Polish, by Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne, Warsaw, 1997. The original work in English was published by Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Prof. Fawzi P. Emad and Paul R. Haldemann received a patent for an invention titled "Method and Apparatus for Non-Destructively Detecting Flaws in a Carbon Anode," U.S. Patent 5,473,248, issued December 5, 1995, to the University of Maryland.

Prof. H.C. Lin and Tang Hao received a patent for “Multiple-Valued Literal Circuit Using Resonant Tunneling Diodes,” U.S. Patent 5,714,891, issued Feb. 3, 1998, to the University of Maryland.

  Prof. Mario Dagenais gave an invited talk titled “Photonics Packaging: Market Trends, Opportunities and Challenges,” at the OSA Corp. Assoc. breakfast during OFC ‘98, on Feb. 25, 1998.

Dagenais also organized a session titled “WDM and Broadband Access Optoelectronic Packaging,” at the Semiconductor Laser Workshop during CLEO ‘98, San Francisco, Calif., May, 1998.

  Prof. Anthony Ephremides was appointed Technical Program Chair for the 1999 IEEE INFOCOM Conference, to be held in New York, N.Y., March, 1999.

  Prof. John Melngailis was named to the steering committee, and will be program chair for the “Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam and Nanofabrication Technology Symposium for the Year 2000.”

Melngailis was also invited to give a talk titled “Ion Beam Lithography,” at Photomask Japan, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan, April, 1998.

  Prof. Steven Marcus delivered an invited talk titled, "Risk-Sensitive Control of Markov Decision Processes,” in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ill., April 15, 1998.

  Prof. Edward Ott delivered a talk titled “Riddled Basins of Attraction,” at the Math Assoc. of America Mtg., Baltimore, Md., Jan., 1998.

Ott also gave an invited talk titled “The Role of Lagrangian Chaos in the Creation of Multifractals and Power Law Wavenumber Spectra,” at the Second Conf. on Fundamental Problematic Issues in Turbulence,” in Ascona, Switzerland, March, 1998.

Ott gave an invited talk titled “Higher Dimensional Chaotic Scattering,” at the Workshop on Quantum Nonintegrability, at Harvard University, Mass., April, 1998.