WELCOME to the middle-of-the year update on the state of the journal, where, as usual, you’ll find information about current and new initiatives as well as the presentation of the new associate editors and the farewell to those whose term has expired. Today, July 2016, the IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC) is just in the middle of their 65th year of continued and successful publication, and the Computer Society (CS) is now celebrating its 70th year of life. TC, as the flagship Transactions of the Computer Society, during its nearly 65 years of publication has been the undisputed reference for generations of researchers. TC reflects a unique brand of quality, a tradition and an everlasting lighthouse in the Engineering Community. Readers, authors, reviewers, associate editors and editors in chief, have been and are over so many years the key of the success of this publication; the recipe is simple: everyone is proud and honored when invited to contribute, so they perform at their very best. TC has hosted, over the years, the most important technical papers that have made the history of Computers. The challenge for the future is to tackle the challenges of the world of scientific dissemination that has already started experiencing fundamental changes. At TC we are ready, not only planning, but also driving the future to continue offering a peer-reviewed periodical that is in itself one more reason to become an active part of our Community and the Computer Society. Our agenda has plenty of interesting ideas and, as of May 10, 2016 (as the going-to-press deadline of this issue), I am shortly presenting three (already or soon-to-be launched) initiatives: “Editor’s pick of the year”, “multimedia”, and “Authors’ biographies in submitted and finally accepted papers”.