Welcome to the final issue of 2006! I hope that everyone has had a healthy and productive year. This issue features two Research Highlights articles. The first article is entitled "Faithful Quantum Communication Over Noisy Environment," by Takashi Yamamoto, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto at the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan, and the CREST Research Team for Photonic Quantum Information in Kawaguchi, Japan. The second article is entitled "High-Speed Integrated Photonics in Interconnection Networks," by Kevin A. Williams, who is Associate Editor of Europe and Africa at the LEOS newsletter. Dr. Williams holds a Marie Curie chair at the Technical University of Eindhoven and is a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Please join me in extending a warm welcome to the new LEOS Newsletter Editor Krishnan Parameswaran! Krishnan joins the LEOS Staff as Newsletter Editor in 2007. He is a Principal Scientist at Physical Sciences, Inc., in Andover, MA. We are printing a profile of Krishnan in this issue, along with a color photo and biography.
I am grateful to all the LEOS volunteers and everyone at the LEOS staff for their support of the newsletter during the past several years since Peter Delfyett gave me the opportunity to follow him as editor of the newsletter. Thank you, Peter! Paul Schumate, Gail Walters, Katrina Edsell, and all the LEOS volunteers and LEOS staff have been amazingly supportive of all the changes on the LEOS newsletter, including the new layout and incorporation of full-color as well as lots of other changes.
Thank you to all past and present LEOS Board of Governors, Presidents, Past-Presidents, and Vice-Presidents for approving all the budget requests to pay for full-color publication and distribution to all the LEOS members as part of their membership dues. Thank you to all the LEOS Associate Editors, past and present, for writing great columns and supplying great content for the LEOS members.
Thank you also to all the LEOS authors over the past several years - thank you for taking time from your busy schedules to write broad articles for all the LEOS members in the newsletter. It has been a pleasure to work with everyone, especially Katrina Edsell our Newsletter Staff Editor, who has made the newsletter run smoothly and has fantastic techniques to handle all of the content arriving from lots of sources. It has been a pleasure to work with everyone, and I will miss you all!!!
Thank you again for taking the time to read the LEOS newsletter. We appreciate all of your comments and feedback! Please send comments to myl@us.ibm.com.