The March 1993 Newsletter, VIII.1, contained an Editorial Board Committee Report stating the intention of publishing three Journals each year. The Board now included substantial representation of computational electromagnetics "sister" organizations: TEAM, COMPUMAG, and CEFC (Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation). Newsletter editors Elliot and Perez had authored a series of descriptive articles about ACES in newsletters and magazines of other professional societies. Kenzo Miya of Japan had elaborated on ACES to his Japanese Society for Applied Electromagnetics in Materials and was exploring cooperative activities. At this time the ACES Journal Editorial Board and ACES Newsletter Staff represented 13 nations on five continents. By this time, several ACES Journal editors and a few ACES members were actively promoting ACES and were acting as "ACES Ambassadors" to other professional societies, particularly in Europe, Africa, Australia, and Japan. Dr. A.K. Brown, correspondent for the ACES UK Chapter (formed October 1992) stated that at the Chapter's first annual meeting a NEC User's Group of invited speakers provided overviews of work undertaken at United Kingdom universities. The Chapter was at that time considering a "hands-on" beginners' course in NEC for students and graduates, to begin in 1993. The Chapter had also begun publishing its own Newsletter in the fall of 1992, edited by Jeffrey W. R. Cox (Defence Research Agency, UK). Mr. R. P. Haviland (Professional Engineer), an ACES member, had written a set of computer programs especially for the radio amateurs, describing a wide range of antennas in the MF to SHF frequency range. The March 1993 Newsletter contained information about these programs.
The Ninth Annual Review of Progress, held March 22-26, 1993, in Monterey and chaired by Perry Wheless, included a variety of events: a Canonical Problem Session, CAEME posters and software demonstrations, vendor demonstrations, and committee and user group meetings, as well as five full-day short courses and three half-day courses. All but one of the courses were given on the first and last days of the Review. The course fees were $130 for a full day; $80 for a half day, if received by March 8. Vol. VIII.2 of the Newsletter of July 1993 announced the addition of David B. Davidson (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) as Associate Editor.
The Treasurer's report for the period January 1, 1993 to June 24, 1993 recorded an increase of total assets from $27,997 to $53,378, largely due to the profit of $35,167 from the Annual Review in March. (Some Review expenses were still outstanding.)
Regarding the Outreach effort, Russell Taylor, Chairman of the Code Users Group, reported an arrangement with the Millimeter Wave/Microwave Advanced Computational Environment (MMACE) project called "BBS". This allowed ACES members to send E-mail to the MMACE computer for requests of files. A future FTP link would be possible. At the Ninth Annual Review in March of 1993 the BOD created the position of Executive Officer and appointed then-Secretary Adler, with Perry Wheless (University of Alabama) as replacement. Officer Adler's position on the Board was filled by Patricia Foster. The members of the new Board and their BOD (not officer) terms of expiration were:
President, Harold Sabbagh - 1996
Vice President, Raymond Luebbers - 1996
Secretary, Perry Wheless - 1996
Treasurer (and Past President) James Logan - 1994
with members-at-large
Patricia Foster -1995
James Breakall - 1995
Frank Walker - 1995
Andrew Peterson - 1994
Past President Edmund Miller - 1994
The Executive Committee now included the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Officer. The BOD also decreed that committee chairmen must convene their committees at least twice a year and submit a written report to the Board at each of its meetings. It enacted several publication measures due to budgetary constraints: a voluntary page charge of $75 per page for Journal papers, beginning in 1994, and page limits for each Journal and Newsletter issue. Two Journal issues and three Newsletters would be published annually.
At the Review's Awards Banquet seven awards were presented to the following persons: Patricia Foster for support of ACES activities, notably in the UK Chapter; Duncan Baker, for ACES BOD activities and promotional projects; Perry Wheless, for chairing the Ninth Annual Review; and Anthony Fleming, for arranging the first ACES-oriented regional workshop outside the U.S. and for Australian and New Zealand promotion. Additional awards went for best paper and two technical achievements. In July, 1993 the Permanent Standing Committees and their Chairmen were: Nominations, Stanley Kubina; Elections, Shing Ted Li (NRAD, the renamed NOSC); Finance, James Logan (NRAD); Ways and Means, Raymond Luebbers; Publications, David Stein; Conference, Richard Adler; Awards, Lee Corrington. Raymond Luebbers had decided to step down as Vice President but remain on the BOD; Frank Walker took his place. The Membership Activty Committees were: Code Users Group, Russell Taylor; Software Exchange, Frank Walker; 16.Software Performance Standards, Andrew Peterson; Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Wayne Harrader; and Historical, Robert Bevensee (BOMA ENTERPRISES).
The Code Users Group reported that ACES then had two electronic bulletin board hosts{one a mail server, in coopoeration with the MMACE Program, hosted by NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) in Washington, DC. The other was an anonymous FTP site hosted by the University of Missouri at Rolla. At
that time no software was available. ACES members were invited to submit public domain or shareware material to Chairman Taylor, Randy Jost, or to Todd Hubing (University of Missouri, Rolla) for posting to these machines.
The Software Exchange Committee at this time had three officers: Chairman Frank Walker, Vice Chairman Randy Jost, and Secretary Todd Hubing, with 20 members-at-large. Frank Walker would request Air Force authorization for GEMACS 3.7 distribution by ACES.
The report of the ACES Regional Activities Committee (formerly the Meetings Committee under Raymond Luebbers) made by Frank Walker, Chairman, with foreign members Duncan Baker, South Africa, Anthony Fleming, Australia, and Adel Razek, France, summarized the locations and dates of all the past TEAM/ACES regional activities: Toronto, October 1990; Sendai, January 1991; Sorrento, July 1991; Clayton Victoria, Australia, August 1992; and Clairmont, California, August 1992. The ACES Editorial Board members arranged the TEAM/ACES Workshops. Duncan Baker and Derek McNamara were, at that time, arranging an ACES workshop to be attached to the annual joint APMTT Symposium in August, sponsored by the Pretoria Chapter of APS/MTTS, SAIEE (South African Institute of Electrical Engineers), and the University of Pretoria. The workshop would be titled "Gaining Insight Through Computational Electromagnetics". Regretfully, it was cancelled due to lack of support by potential users of CEM (Computational Electromagnetics) techniques other than the handful o9f academics already active in the field.
The Conference Report for the Ninth Annual Review reported 119 technical papers in 22 sessions, printed in 938 pages of the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics. Two hundred and eight persons registered, compared to 145 in 1991 and 167 in 1992. John Rockway (NRAD) organized a slate of seven short courses. At this time ACES had its IRS non-profit tax status validated through 1996.
On June 29, 1993, the BOD approved an ACES Handbook for Elections by Mail, prepared by James Logan and Andrew Peterson. ln Vol. VIII.3 of the Newsletter, November 1993, we learned that Shing Ted ("Pete") Li (NRAD) would step down as Chairman of the Elections Committee after long service, to be succeeded by James Breakall. Lee Corrington would retire as Chairman of the Awards Committee, succeeded by David Stein. In September of 1993 David would relinquish his Publications positions to Perry Wheless and Richard Adler, who would become the ACES Publications Editor-in-chief and ACES Managing Editor, respectively. David would be honored as Editor-in-chief Emeritus. Duncan Baker was appointed Journal Editor-in-chief and Adalbert Konrad was appointed in October 1993 to the position of Associate Editor-in-chief.
The Software Exchange Committee reported that ACES had received many requests for status of various NEC-MOM (method of moments) codes : NEC 2 (circa 1981), NEC 3 (circa 1985), and NEC 4 (circa 1993). This committee was tasked to distribute information on all the major computational electromagnetic (CEM) tools in its collection. Todd Hubing stated that he had set up an anonymous FTP site for ACES-related items, such as the E-mail database, technical reports, and software.
The ACES Executive Committee approved in December 1993 an increased Publications budget, to be ratified by the membership at the Tenth Annual Review in March (after membership first approved the Bylaw change authorizing the Executive Committee itself). This budget would allow three Journals in 1994. The ACES Journal is now administered by an international editorial board with 43 editors from more than 9 nations. Voluntary page charges for articles will be effective during 1994. Mandatory excessive-length page charges of $75 per page will apply for pages exceeding 12 where any author is an ACES member and 8 if no author is an ACES member. After acceptance of a manuscript the first author's company would be requested to pay a charge of $75 per printed page.
Treasurer Logan's financial report indicated net assets of $27,998 on January 1, 1993 and $52,940 on December 31. Income for 1993 was approximately $117,300 while expenses were approximately $92,350. Compared to a net loss of $5,377 for 1992, the net profit for 1993 arose from increased Review income and reduced Review and publication expense.