Panel discussion 1: Automation in the 21st Century

Summary form only given, as follows. To objective of this panel discussion is to present the brief history of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) and IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE); To discuss the directions of future Automation research; To brainstorm the strategy to build up T-ASE/CASE as a premium community for Automation research and applications. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings.