Hello! Over the next two years I look forward to serving you and the ISB as Publication Officer. You will be seeing me in your inbox quarterly with announcements for new issues of ISB NOW.
If you have not already visited the ISB NOW archive please take a look:
https://isbweb.org/news/isb-now
The ISB NOW archive contains issues dating back to 1983, with articles documenting the evolution of biomechanics over the decades. For example, here is an interesting passage from the Spring 1983 issue:
"...the newest generation of scientific 16 bit microcomputers from Data General Corp. It is one of the fastest, most advanced and cost efficient systems available today. The 128 kilobyte memory is expandable to 2 Megabytes, the 5 Megabyte hard disk can be extended to 15 or 50 Megabytes. The floppy disk has 1.2 Megabytes, and a cartridge tape drive is available, too."
Ohh, the tape and floppy days. Thank you to all biomechanists who drudged through these computational constraints to make breakthrough technological progress that paved the way for all of us and for biomechanics' bright future.
I also wish to thank Lily, my predecessor, for getting me started and for providing guidance and advice on all sorts of issues. Thank you Lily!
If you have any newsworthy content that you wish to communicate to the ISB membership through ISB NOW please contact me any time: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Todd Pataky
ISB Publication Officer
Kyoto University, Japan
