TPDS celebrates its 20th anniversary!

We asked editorial board members to reflect on TPDS's past 20 years. Below is what they had to say. You can add your comments on TPDS’s anniversary on the TPDS message board.

  “Happy Anniversary TPDS”—Yavuz Oruc, Associate Editor

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary! Being published in TPDS always provided the ultimate proof of the quality of research contributions, and the opportunity to attract attention to articles. It also served as a catapult for new research areas such as wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and mobile computing, leading to new more specialized IEEE journals.”

—Ivan Stojmenovic, IEEE Fellow

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary. This event comes at a time where the field of parallel and distributed systems has moved from an interesting niche to the center of the computing universe. Internet systems, multicore, high-performance computing technology, international collaboratories....will provide TPDS topics for years to come.”

—Rudi Eigenmann

“"Congratulations on the 20th anniversary! Bravo!”

—Pen-Chung Yew, Past Editor in Chief

“Cheers! Congratulations on the 20th anniversary of TPDS. This journal has served and continues to serve the need in the computer science community for archival publications in an important area, which will only get more important in the multi- and many-core era. I have fond memories and a personal connection to the first year of TPDS since the first journal paper out of my PhD dissertation appeared in the 3rd issue of this journal!”

—Kishore Ramachandran,
Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech

“TPDS has played a major role as the most prestigious journal in the area of parallel and distributed computing during the last 20 years. With the emergence of multicore technology and revitalization of parallel computing research, I am confident that TPDS will contribute more to the research community. Congratulations to TPDS on its 20 years of success!”

—Dr. Yi Pan,
Professor and Chair of Computer Science
Georgia State University

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary, IEEE-TPDS! You have been a constant source of not only cutting-edge research information on parallel and distributed systems but also inspiration for me, my students, and colleagues who work in this fascinating area and time! So thank you sincerely and I wish you many many joyful returns of the day!”

—Hong Jiang,
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Congratulations to TPDS for its 20th anniversary! What has appeared in TPDS over the last 20 years has shaped what we have today from the Internet to computer games. Happy to be a part of its history and anxious to see the next 20 year progress in parallel and distributed computing, I am.”

—Gyungho Lee

“I was a PhD student finishing my dissertation in parallel processing 20 years ago when the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems started its important mission to contribute and advance computing technology and research. I have closely connected to TPDS since then as a reader, an author, an Associate Editor, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief. TPDS has been and will continue to be an important part of my academic and research career. Congratulations to all of the accomplishments of TPDS in the last 20 years, and I wish it all the best in the future! ”

—Xiaodong Zhang, Associate Editor-in-Chief

“Congratulations on your 20th birthday! May you live longer than your editors, bear witness to many research breakthroughs, and receive scores of citations!”

—Tarek Abdelzaher, Associate Editor

“Congratulations to TPDS on its 20th anniversary. From having my very first publication here when I was a student to now participating as an Associate Editor, TPDS has been very influential in guiding research directions in the areas of parallel and distributed systems.”

—Ravishankar Iyer, Associate Editor

“Even as the field of parallel and distributed computing has grown (and changed) tremendously in the last 20 years, TPDS has stayed the top journal in this area. I would like to congratulate all of the editors, reviewers, authors, and readers of this journal on this accomplishment.”

—Gagan Agrawal,
Professor, Ohio State and Associate Editor, TPDS

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary. I have seen significant growth in your popularity and quality since the inception. Wishing the very best for future!”

—Prasant Mohapatra, Professor and Chair
University of California, Davis

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary! It has been an honor serving on the editorial team and a pleasure to be involved during the 20th anniversary year. May the journal be around for many more years.”

—Cyrus Shahabi, Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Southern California

“Congratulations to TPDS on its 20th anniversary as the leading research journal of the parallel and distributed computing community.”

—Manish Parashar, Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

“TPDS has served as a great platform for researchers and developers to exchange great ideas and results. Congratulations from the deepest of my heart on its 20th anniversary!”

—Yu-Chee Tseng
 National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

“My research career started in parallel and distributed systems almost 20 yrs ago, and I had my first TPDS paper published in 1994. After many years of publishing in and serving as editors for several other journals, I was asked to join the TPDS editorial board recently. It was like a home coming and I really enjoyed the experience. Congrats on your 20th anniversary!”

—Chunming Qiao, Ph.D.
 Professor
 Computer Science and Engineering
 University at Buffalo (SUNY)

“Congratulations on ushering in a new technology field and playing a major role in seeing it prosper over the last 20 years. The special issues have been particularly outstanding, always targeting new directions and topics. Keep up the good work for the next 20 years.”

—John A. Stankovic, Past Editor-in-Chief

“Congratulations to TPDS on its 20th anniversary. TPDS continues to be one of the premier journals in our field.”

—Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory

“Congratulations on your 20th anniversary! In addition to the dissemination of scientific knowledge, TPDS is acting as a key journal to federate the distributed computing community. Thanks to TPDS!”

—Michel Raynal

“I remember very well the article on ‘Limits on Interconnection Network Performance,’ by A. Agarwal, IEEE TPDS, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 398-412, because this paper set me on the right path for PhD success. Thank you very much IEEE TPDS for publishing this paper and congratulations on your 20th anniversary.”

—Mohamed Ould-Khaoua