From: Zac Rolnik <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 20:21:12 +0000 Sergio Verdú wins the 2016 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing now publishers congratulates Sergio Verdú of Princeton University on receiving the 2016 National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing, presented this year in computer science (http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/scientific-reviewing.html). This award recognizes his “consistent and distinguished contributions of review material in information theory and his leading role in developing high-quality review journals covering broad areas of the information sciences”. The NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing has been presented annually since 1979 to recognize authors, whose reviews have synthesized extensive and difficult material, rendering a significant service to science and influencing the course of scientific thought. The field rotates among biological, physical, and social sciences. Sergio Verdú is the Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends (FnT) in Communications and Information Theory (www.nowpublishers.com/cit), which he was instrumental in developing. He also authored the inaugural issue, “Random Matrix Theory and Wireless Communication,” which became the benchmark for the reviews published in all FnTs. In honor of Sergio’s award, we are making this issue freely available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/0100000001. Foundations and Trends has proven to be an important tool that has allowed researchers to quickly get up to speed on important topics in their area of research. now publishers is proud to have had Sergio's guidance in creating these peer-reviewed journals which now cover more than 30 different areas in computer science, electrical engineering, and business. Please let me know if you have any questions. Zac Rolnik President and Publisher now publishers po box 1024 hanover, ma 02339 usa [log in to unmask] www.nowpublishers.com