Being a new SIG, we have a lot of work to do. Embedded systems have been the most pervasive and successful field of IT, and it is widely recognized that the technology has strategic importance for the future of industry. The task of providing a meaningful forum for researchers and developers in this huge, diverse field is quite difficult - but extremely important. What we need the most are volunteers, who are willing to spend some of their time with serving the broader community.

We are pleased to welcome our SIGBED Review Editor, Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Virginia. Together with his Associate Editors, Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania and Sandeep Neema, Vanderbilt University, they form a great team planning interesting and informative publications for the SIGBED members. I hope that you will take advantage of this service but also contribute to the Review and will help us to shape the future of SIGBED!

Janos Sztipanovits, SIGBED Chair

SIGBED Review is aiming to complement the current publication venues by providing a faster-paced forum for introducing original embedded systems research and for presenting significant contributions to the state of the art. Especially welcome are revolutionary or controversial ideas that generate discussion or fundamentally rethink established concepts and approaches. Being an online forum, SIGBED Review will offer decreased turnaround time from submission to publication and provide means of more efficient dissemination of ideas and experiences in the field.

Topics of interest to SIGBED include mathematical foundations for embedded systems, embedded system design methodologies, model-based generation and integration technology, models of computations, real-time systems, architectures and compilers, networked embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, hardware architectures, and secure embedded systems. Original contributions to the above and other related topics are solicited. Also, please tune-in for an upcoming series of special issues.

In this introductory issue, we have asked experts in the field to elaborate on their views on embedded computing challenges for the next decade. Their vision and opinions are presented. We hope the issue will provide insights into the most important research directions that might be undertaken by the embedded systems community in the foreseeable future.

Tarek Abdelzaher, Sandeep Neema, Oleg Sokolsky
The SIGBED Review Editors