From the Editor´s Desk

This Annals issue includes articles on the history of business computing by Ian Martin on Barclays Bank, between 1965 and 1972, and on the civil engineering company Grupo ICA in Mexico, between the late 1960s and early 1970s. Additional feature articles include James W. Cortada\´s "Information Technologies in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949–1989" and "An Original Italian Dial Adder Rediscovered" by Silvio Hénin and Massimo Temporelli. Two fellow members of the "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing" Editorial Board, Jeffrey R. Yost and David Walden, have recently published books based on articles published in the journal.