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4 A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 9 ASM International 9639 Kinsman Road, Materials Park, OH 44073 Tel: 440.338.5151 • Fax: 440.338.4634 Frances Richards, Editor-in-Chief frances.richards@asminternational.org Joanne Miller, Editor joanne.miller@asminternational.org Ed Kubel and Corinne Richards, Contributing Editors Jim Pallotta, Creative Director jim.pallotta@asminternational.org Jan Nejedlik, Layout and Design Kelly Sukol, Production Manager kelly.suko l@asminternational.org Press Release Editor magazines@asminternational.org EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Adam Farrow, Chair, Los Alamos National Lab John Shingledecker, Vice Chair, EPRI Somuri Prasad, Past Chair, Sandia National Lab Jason Sebastian, Board Liaison, QuesTek Innovations LLC Tomasz Chojnacki, Caterpillar Inc. 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Mahoney, Secretary and Chief Executive Officer STUDENT BOARDMEMBERS Aadithya Jeyaranjan, Kenna Ritter, Eli Vandersluis Individual readers of Advanced Materials & Processes may, without charge, make single copies of pages therefrom for per- sonal or archival use, or may freely make such copies in such numbers as are deemed useful for educational or research purposes and are not for sale or resale. Permission is granted to cite or quote fromarticles herein, provided customary acknowledgment of the authors and source is made. The acceptance and publication of manuscripts in Advanced Materials & Processes does not imply that the reviewers, editors, or publisher accept, approve, or endorse the data, opinions, and conclusions of the authors. H appy New Year to the entire ASM community! We hope you all enjoyed a peaceful and refreshing holiday sea- son and that you feel ready to take on the year ahead. As we prepare for 2019 at AM&P, we are busy editing articles for the next few issues and distilling the most interesting and practical news related to materials science and engineering. We’re planning to increase our editorial coverage of additive manufacturing, as many of you have indicated this continues tobe an area of growing interest. Artificial intelligence (AI) and how it may impact materials engineering—and society in general—is another top- ic we plan to keep covering as well. Of course we will still report on our core areas as thoroughly as ever by including updates on the latest alloys, the most promis- ing energy materials, advances in metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites, and the multitude of processes that work these materials into our everyday lives. With regard to a sense of communi- ty, we get to witness this firsthand every day at ASM. Our network of committed volunteers does everything from leading our chapters around the globe to writing Handbook articles to helping organize our conference programs. We could not do any of this without you. Our members also help each other. As a recent ex- ample, George Vander Voort, FASM, asked me a question related to research he was conducting on steel specimens from the USS Arizona. I didn’t know which direction to point him in, but I suggested publishing his query in our “Feedback” department in the Nov/Dec issue. Dozens of detailed answers and suggestions have flooded my Inbox and I’ve passed them all along to George. I wish we could publish them all, but they would fill an entire issue. We’ve included a handful of these letters on page 6 and George has offered to write an article about his research in an upcoming AM&P. A hearty thank you to everyone who responded! Another interesting letter I received the other day expressed concern about AI developments we’ve reported on, specifically the prospect of machines tweaking their own code. It reads in part: “The thought of a computer updating its own code, unbidden by its builders, that hadn’t even occurred to me. That can’t happen! Can you imagine a stress analysis code doing that? The original code was built on actual data...but the update? Who knows? Not only NO, but ‘heck’ no!” Our dear reader is not alone. Elon Musk has said he worries that AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and the late great Stephen Hawking said that AI could be the “worst event in the history of civilization” unless we are prepared for the potential risks. Many great minds are considering this. See page 12 for news about MIT’s new AI college and the $1 billion investment making it possible. We will continue to report on these developments. In other news under the Dome, it seems hard to believe, but we are now en- tering the third year of the ASM Renewal. Overall, 2018 went well with regard to initiatives such as our digital transformation/publishing efforts and growing our membership. We’re looking forward to an exciting and prosperous year ahead, and we wish you all the same. f rances.richards@asminternational.org READY, SET, GO FOR 2019