The new slate of officers approved by the membership on March 20, 1990, at the Sixth Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, March 19-22 at NPS, was: President, Stanley Kubina; Vice President, Harold Sabbagh; Secretary, Richard Adler; Treasurer, James Breakall; Member-at-large, Raymond Luebbers.

The Sixth Annual Review was chaired by Scott Ray: there were 220 attendees at 11 sessions (including one poster) and a short course. The 50 papers were featured in the Review Proceedings of 437 pages. As reported in Vol. V.1 of the ACES Newsletter, March 1990, the special issue of the ACES Journal entitled "The ACES Collection of Canonical Problems - Set 1" with Vice President Sabbagh as guest editor, would be available in March, 1990. Member cost would be $9, US;$12, non-US. This had become a springboard for ACES to co-sponsor a previously scheduled TEAM (Testing Electromagnetic Applications Methods) Workshop, which was likewise devoted to solving benchmark problems. Plans called for a two-day workshop at the Fourth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computations in Toronto, Canada, October 22-24, 1990.

Rüdiger Anders reported at the ADCOM meeting that the workshop planned for November of 1989 would be postponed to September 1990. Announcements would be mailed to more than 50 ACES European members. ACES was incorporated in California as a non-profit organization on March 26, 1990., following the Sixth Annual Review of Progress. At the APS Symposium in Dallas, May 10, 1990, the ADCOM approved the Bylaws, elected the new Board of Directors (ADCOM had served as the interim Board) and established the terms of office of its members. Officers would be elected every two years. It also established committees and transferred the assets of the old ACES into the new Corporation.

The new Board of Directors (BOD) consisted of nine members, three of 3-year terms, three of 2-year terms, and three of 1-year terms:

President, Stanley Kubina - 3-year term

Vice President, Harold Sabbagh - 3-year term

Secretary, Richard Adler - 2-year term

Treasurer, James Breakall - 2-year term

with the following Members-at-large:

Raymond Luebbers - 3-year term

Scott Ray (LLNL) - 2-year term

Peter Cunningham (Army, Ft. Monmouth) - 1-year term

Past President Edmund Miller (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, LANL) - 1-year term

Past President James Logan - 1-year term

The BOD also approved the following Committees of the Board:

Executive Committee - President Kubina, Secretary Adler (non-voting),

Past President Logan

Financial Committee

Nominations Committee

The existing committees of ACES were approved as committees of the ACES Corporation. The formal process of the Bylaws took effect at this time. According to them, the annual report would be prepared and an annual meeting would be held during each Annual Review of Progress for election of new directors and transaction of ACES business. Meetings of the BOD would be convened regularly. Past President Logan, working with Secretary Adler and Frank Walker (Boeing Aerospace), presented the Board with three options for the 5-year budget projection, to be presented at the 1991 Annual Review. The option believed to be most practical prescribed a single annual Journal and a $10 increase in annual dues. Treasurer Breakall reported a net $48,450 of assets were transferred to ACES, Inc.

In Vol. V.2 of the ACES Newsletter, July 1990, Editor-in-chief Stein made an extensive report. INSPEC, the database for physics, electronics, and computing, would include ACES Journal papers in its abstracting services. ACES at this time had been accepted for membership in the United Kingdom-based Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. The "Canonical Problem Solution" project, initiated under the ACES Journal special-issue program, had launched the ACES Workshop Program. That, in turn, had paved the way for cooperative activities with the European TEAM (see above). Between December, 1989 and April, 1990 ACES lost its free postage and printing privileges with NPS, helped support CAEME, suffered a reduction in short-course income, and incurred incorporation expenses. To maintain financial reserves the ACES regular Journals had been reduced to one per year, and Newsletters, to three per year, with new restrictions on special-issue Journals. However, the BOD determined on May 10, 1990, that two regular Journals could be published in 1990. It also voted that ACES become a scientific sponsor of COMPUMAG and advertise its activities. In the immediate future following this meeting of the Board, ACES would publish two Journals and three Newsletters annually, plus each special-issue Journal in one of three ways: as a special section of a regular Journal, in place of a regular issue, or as an optional purchase publication not included in the membership dues. Since the standards for selecting recipients for Best ACES Journal Paper Award had not yet been defined, plans for presenting the awards were cancelled.

Later the standards would be reviewed after examining those for the ACES Journal and ACES Newsletter.

Editor-in-chief Stein concluded his report by saying that a code-indexing service for Journal papers and Newsletter articles would begin with the July 1990 Newsletter issue. The Newsletter would also compile a running bibliography of measured electromagnetic data appropriate for code validation. This Newsletter issue, which launched a new feature, "Perspectives on ACES and Computational Electromagnetics", also included reports from the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, chaired by Wayne Harader, and the Code User Group Committee, a spinoff of the ACES Editorial Board and chaired by Christopher Smith (Kaman Sciences Corp.). The Committee on Artificial Intelligence held its first meeting during the Sixth Annual Review in March. Ten of the committee members who expressed interest in how the Committee should operate could reach no consensus about it. So they decided, for the time being, to collect and publish a list of activities in which "intelligence" was being added to electromagnetic codes. The Code User Group report stated that it had been forming subgroups since December 1989. Since then, 40 members had returned interest questionnaires and a response database had been created. One new subgroup, the Moment Method Code Users Group, 10.would support NEC-2 and NEC-3 (and variants), MININEC-3, and GEMACS (although this code implements other methods). Russell Taylor (McDonnell Douglas Corp.) would act as Chairman. A second subgroup interested in high-frequency methods, such as GTD (Geometrical Theory of Diffraction), would have Christopher Smith as Chairman. Ronald Marhefka (Ohio State University) would cooperate with users of NEC-BCS (Basic Scattering Code). ACES Newsletter Vol. V.3 dated November 1990 and edited by Paul Elliot (now at ARCO Power Technologies) contained a report from the Software Performance Standards Committee, co-chaired by Andrew Peterson (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Vice President Sabbagh. It stated that the "ACES Collection of Canonical Problems - Set 1", guest-edited by Vice President Sabbagh, was published in the Spring of 1990 and made available at the Sixth Annual Review, and also that workshops facilitating exchange of information about test problems were held during May at the joint IEEE APS-MTT (Microwave Theory and Techniques)-URSI Conference in Dallas and also during October at the Fourth Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, held in Toronto.

The nine canonical problems in this Set spanned the frequency range 900 Hz to 10 GHz, with both transient and steady-state excitation. Solutions to these and TEAM Workshop problems would be discussed at a series of international workshops sponsored jointly by TEAM and ACES. In Newsletter VI.1, published March 1991, we learned that Reinaldo Perez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) became the new Associate Newsletter editor. The issue also announced an upcoming special issue of the Journal on the subject of Bioelectromagnetic Computations, with Anthony H. J. Fleming and K. H. Joyner (both at Telecom Australia Research Laboratories) as guest editors.