Editorial and Changes to the Editorial Board

Abstract

Steering Committee, and the TMC staff, we wish you a happy and prosperous New Year! Over the past few years, the societal and economic impact of mobile computing has been steadily increasing to the point where mobile devices will soon be the primary computing device for a large number of users. With this development, the importance and the potential for impact of academic research in mobile computing has grown dramatically. As the premier journal in the fi eld, TMC is in a unique position to shape academic thought and industry directions in various aspects of mobile computing. As ever, we look to you, our readers and contributors, to submit high-quality research work that moves this exciting fi eld in new directions.In this, the last year of our term, we hope to continue to publish thoughtful and deep research manuscripts that, we hope, will increase TMC's stature. In addition, we plan to bring you outstanding papers from highly selective mobile computing conferences in special sections of upcoming issues. In doing so, our aim is to expose our readership to cutting-edge research on impactful problems of relatively immediate importance.Our editorial board continues to perform outstanding service to the mobile computing community, and for this we are very grateful. The board has evolved this year, and we take this opportunity to welcome several new