TY - JOUR AB - As Vice‐President of ISHM‐UK, I am very pleased to have this opportunity to express a few thoughts about our technology in this first issue of the new Journal. In the UK we do not have a ‘President’ of our Society and thus the post I have the honour to hold may appear as the first of numerous anomalies and inconsistencies which abound in the subject area in which we work. VL - 1 IS - 1 SN - 1356-5362 DO - 10.1108/eb044117 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044117 AU - Kirby P.L. PY - 1982 Y1 - 1982/01/01 TI - EMPIRIC/SHM—A Noble Art T2 - Microelectronics International PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 49 EP - 50 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -