The ISCIE was founded in 1957 and then called “the Japan Association of Automatic Control Engineers.” For more than 40 years since the foundation, it has been engaged in various activities for the development of science and technology on control and systems engineering through collaboration among the industry, universities, and the government. In the fields of systems and control engineering, there has been dramatic increase in the demand for information-related technology, including computer applications. To meet such demands of the times, the name of the institute has been changed to the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) since 1986.