The Future of Our Conferences: An Unmissable Opportunity for Outreach? [President’s Message]

Welcome to my third column of 2022. It follows the great “President’s Message” invited column by Giovanni Cherubini (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland) that focused on the impact on big data storage systems of advanced control techniques for magnetic tape drives (see the August 2022 issue of our magazine
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). Here, I would like to build a virtuous future connection between the Outreach Program of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and the “new normal” of our conferences I alluded to in my June 2021 “President’s Message” column
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