This issue’s column is devoted to the M. Barry Carlton Award. The M. Barry Carlton Award acknowledges what is judged to be the best paper in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS (TAES). To help identify and assess what TAES paper is best, the Carlton Award considers papers published four years earlier in TAES. As such, this year’s Carlton Award is the 2017 M. Barry Carlton Award. The award was established in 1958 after the early death of M. Barry Carlton in an air accident in 1957. The award is a means to honor a man who had dedicated much of his life to promoting the reliability of communications equipment, especially that relating to air transportation. It is one of the IEEE’s oldest awards and supports a wonderful tradition of excellence.

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本期专栏专门介绍 M. Barry Carlton 奖。M. Barry Carlton 奖旨在表彰被 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS (TAES) 评为最佳论文。为了帮助确定和评估什么 TAES 论文是最好的，卡尔顿奖考虑了四年前在 TAES 上发表的论文。因此，今年的卡尔顿奖是 2017 年的 M. Barry Carlton 奖。该奖项是在 M. Barry Carlton 在 1957 年的一次空难中早逝后于 1958 年设立的。该奖项旨在表彰一位一生致力于提高通信设备可靠性的人，尤其是与航空运输。它是 IEEE 历史最悠久的奖项之一，支持卓越的优良传统。