Seventy Years Derick Wood J.UCS Special Issue

Derick Wood was born on an early summer day in 1940, now seventy years ago. In 2008 a subgroup of Derick’s many friends (including - in alphabetical order - Jürgen Albert, Anne Brueggemann-Klein, Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Yo-Sub Han, Helmut Juergensen, Rolf Klein, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Klaus-Jörn Lange, Ming Li, David Mathews, Hermann Maurer, Valtteri Niemi, Arto Salomaa, Kai Salomaa, HansWerner Six, Eljas Soisalon-Soininen, Thomas Ottmann, Marti Penntonen, Greg Rawlins, Bob Rosebrugh, Esko Ukkonen, Vijay Vishnavi, Sheng Yu) decided to work together on a special issue of J.UCS to honor Derick Wood. The co-editors of the special issue would be Helmut Jürgensen, Arto Salomaa, Sheng Yu and myself: as managing editor of J.UCS I have the pleasure to write this short introduction