State of the Journal

MY best wishes for a Happy 2016 to all readers, authors, reviewers, and members of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and welcome to this first issue of the New Year. The first year of my term has passed and, as you’ll read further in this editorial, our Transactions on Computers has strengthened its reputation and consolidated its role as the flagship Transactions of the Computer Society. My sincere thanks goes to all readers and supporters of the Journal, the members of the Editorial Board, our contributors and our reviewers. An additional acknowledgment for her day-by-day support in all operations, alwayswith a smile, is owed to the TCAssistant, Ms. Natalie Cicero, and to all Computer Society Staff in support to our Journal. As a part of the natural turnaround, some Colleagues have left the editorial board and others have joined. On behalf of the Communities served by TC let me personally thank the following Colleagues for their thoughtful service:Habib Ammari, Abhishek Chandra, Jinjun Chen, Eui-Young Chung, Amr El Abbadi, Vincenzo Eramo, Tian He, Michael Hsiao, Samee Khan, Hai Jin, Dan Li, Keqiu Li, Yingshu Li, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Yi Pan, Manish Parashar, Meikang Qiu, Sanjay Ranka, Berk Sunar, Zahir Tari, Mateo Valero, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Julio Villalba, Laurence Yang. At the same time, I wish to welcome the new members of the editorial board: Paulo Barreto, http://www.larc.usp.br/ pbarreto/ Marco Caccamo (IEEE Senior Member), http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/ mcaccamo/ Paolo Faraboschi (IEEE Fellow), http://www.hpl.hp.com/people/paolo_faraboschi/ Patrick Girard (IEEE Fellow), http://www.lirmm.fr/ girard/ Oscar Plata Gonzales, http://www.ac.uma.es/ oscar/ Ann Gordon-Ross, http://www.ann.ece.ufl.edu/ Adolfo Guzman Arenas (IEEE Fellow), http://www.cic.ipn.mx/aguzman/ Nei Kato (IEEE Fellow), http://www.it.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/ kato/en-index.html Çetin Kaya Koç (IEEE Fellow), http://cs.ucsb.edu/ koc/ Phillip Laplante (IEEE Fellow), http://www.personal.psu.edu/pal11/ Jiajia Liu (IEEE Senior Member), http://web.xidian.edu.cn/jjliu/en/index.html Diana Marculescu (IEEE Fellow), http://users.ece.cmu.edu/ dianam/ Trevor Mudge (IEEE Life Fellow), http://web.eecs.umich.edu/ tnm/ Naofumi Takagi (IEEE Senior Member), http://kyouindb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/nB9zS Yuan Xie (IEEE Fellow), http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/ yuanxie/