It is my great pleasure to announce that the President of the IEEE Computer Society has appointed Professor Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan as the next Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ( TPDS). Professor Bhuyan will start his term on January 1, 2006.

Professor Bhuyan was the vice chair of IEEE Computer Society Publication Board and has served on the editorial board of many prestigious journals and publications. I am quite sure that, with this appointment, Professor Bhuyan will provide excellent leadership and bring a great deal of technical and managerial experience to TPDS. Please join me in congratulating Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan on his appointment. His brief biography appears below.

My term as TPDS Editor-in-Chief will end this year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank many people who have made my tenure as Editor-in-Chief both rewarding and enjoyable, especially to the staff in the publication office of the IEEE Computer Society, Jennifer Carruth and Selina Norman, for their help in day-to-day operation of the paper review and publication process, and Suzanne Werner and Alicia Stickley for their help in many administrative matters related to TPDS. I often rely on their expertise to resolve difficult issues related to the paper review process. I would also like to thank Angela Burgess for her leadership and support for TPDS. I would especially like to thank Liz Freppert, my assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, for her dedication and help, especially before Manuscript Central became available.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank all of our authors, reviewers, and associate editors for their support of TPDS in the past four years. The number and the quality of submissions to TPDS have increased significantly over the past four years. I hope we all continue this effort to keep TPDS the flagship journal in the field of parallel and distributed processing.

Pen-Chung Yew

Outgoing Editor-in-Chief

Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan has been a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside since January 2001. Prior to that, he was a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University (1989-2000) and program director of the Computer System Architecture Program at the US National Science Foundation (1998-2000). He has also worked as a consultant to Intel and HP Labs. Dr. Bhuyan's current research interests are in the areas of computer architecture, network processors, Internet routers, and parallel and distributed processing. He has published more than 150 papers in related areas in reputed journals and conference proceedings. He has served on the editorial boards of Computer, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Parallel Computing Journal. Dr. Bhuyan is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the ACM, and a fellow of the AAAS. He is also an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science.