From the Editor: Five Years of Interface

This special issue celebrates the first five years of Interface . The first issue of Interface was launched the Winter of 1992 with a photograph of the just-named Nobel laureate, Rudy Marcus, on the cover. In each of the following issues, one of the Society’s Divisions or Groups has been highlighted by presenting the state of the technology of that Division’s or Group’s field as well as feature articles on that subject area. The highlight of my tenure as Editor was the publication of another special issue of Interface which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the invention of the transistor and by which I had the opportunity to meet and interview Gordon Moore (with Bruce Deal). The articles in this present issue are contributions from some of the Divisions on a variety of topics as they reflect over the last five years of events in their Division and the ECS.