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The article discusses the highlights of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held at Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence, Italy from December 10 to 13, 2013. Activities held during the event include preconference workshops and a technical program. Speakers include B. Ross Barmish of the University of Wisconsin and Jeff S. Shamma of Georgia Institute of Technology.

This special issue is a collection of selected papers presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2018 that was held in Florence, Italy, on 27-30 May 2018. As the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS), ISCAS attracts researchers across all the main themes associated with the circuits and systems domain. ISCAS 2018 was attended by more than a thousand delegates presenting their papers on analog, mixed signal and digital circuits, communication systems, signal processing, power circuits and systems, and many other relevant and timely topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, we speak with Marco C. Campi, who is a professor of control and system identification in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy. He is a Fellow of IEEE and serves as the chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification, and Signal Processing (MISP). From 2001 to 2006, he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society and, in 2008, he received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article presents information on the International Federation on Automatic Control Symposium on Robust Control Design that was held from June 25 to 27, 2003 in Milan, Italy. The goal of the meeting was to present a complete picture of robust control by gathering the experts in the field as well as all interested researchers from universities and industries. The program of the symposium consisted of technical session, organized in three parallel tracks, three plenary lectures, a memorial session and a panel discussion. There were 117 participants with 100 presented papers. The title of Carsten Scherer's plenary lecture was LMI Relaxation in Robust control: How to Reduce Conservatism?. Petar Kokotovic's plenary lecture was entitled Recent Nonlinear Design Methods and Their Applications. Tamer Basar's plenary lecture was entitled issues of Robustness in Network Management and Control. In addition to the technical sessions, a special evening event was held on June 26, namely, the Giorgio Quazza Memorial. As a distinguished, pioneering scientist in automatic control, and as one of the International Federation on Automatic Control leaders at that time, Giorgio's contributions were commemorated 25 years after his death with the presence of International Federation on Automatic Control president Vladimir Kucera.

The article discusses the highlights of the 22nd Mediterranean Control Conference (MED14), held in Palermo, Italy on July 16-19, 2014. Highlights discussed include three plenary speakers discussing economics, networks, and system biology each day of technical program, tutorial sessions on systems biology and smart grid, and invited sessions on topics like marine robotics and aerospace systems. The exhibition showcased exhibits such an interactive model of Agrigento Concordia Temple.

The article focuses on the proposed project of the researchers from Italy and Australia to install a quantum cryptography system on the International Space Station. The said project aims to generate an unbreakable code from entangled parts of photons sent from a satellite. Moreover, the entangled photons would be beamed from orbit to two distant ground stations, allowing them to communicate using the quantum key. However, it would alter the key in an easily detectable way if there are attempts to intercept individual photons and steal the key. It promises that a source of single photons on a satellite can indeed be detected at a ground station for 150 kilometers away, against very high background noise.

The article discusses the highlights of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors Meeting held in Florence, Italy on December 9, 2013. The opening address was presented by president Yutaka Yamamoto. It focuses on the establishment of a quorum and motions presented by Yamamoto. Speakers include Francesco Bullo, vice president of publication activities, and Frank Allgower, vice president of technical activities.

Presents interviews with Roberta Zald, director of engineering for Robotic Production Technology Inc., about her perspectives on industrial control technology, and Marco Lovera from the Politecnico di Milano, about his research on system identification and control of spacecraft. Views of Zald on control technology as a driver of automation and robotics; Tips for increasing female enrollment in engineering schools in the U.S.; Factors that led Lovera in the small satellite program of the AGILE spacecraft project of the Italian Space Agency.