A change of landscape and a broadened scope

I've promised you that CISE would be broadening its scope during my term as editor in chief, and this issue marks the start of a new chapter in this effort sometimes, in seeking the new, we re-encounter the old and are surprised by what we've learned: I spent a significant portion of my career as a physics professor. This was sufficiently long ago that I can claim to have been present at the beginning - the entry of computing into the physics teaching enterprise. In fact, this was less than a generation from the time that computers were first used in physics, thus it wasn't entirely clear what the full scope and type of their applications would be. But it was fairly clear that they were surprisingly useful and their application was going to be fairly broad. What I don't think any of us expected was the variety of tasks to which computers would be put nor the depth of the changes they would effect upon the ways we think about the physical world.