This special issue consists of selected papers presented at the 26th ASME ISPS Annual Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems (ISPS 2016) at Santa Clara, California from June 20 to June 21, 2016. The conference covered broad topics on information storage and processing systems. Presenters were invited to submit full length journal papers for publication in MST. All submitted papers were refereed according to the rigorous journal standards. The review process was coordinated by Prof. Kyoung-Su Park. Thirteen papers were accepted for publication.

We hope that readers find the paper in the issue to be informative.

Prof. Bharat Bhushan

Co-Editor in Chief, MST

July 2017