The first issue of the IJF for 2015 has just been published, and I’m delighted that it includes a special section honoring Herman Stekler. It includes articles covering a range of his forecasting interests, although not all of them (sports forecasting is missing). Herman himself wrote a paper for it looking at “Forecasting—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”. He is in a unique position to write such a paper as he has been doing forecasting research longer than anyone else on the planet — his first published paper on forecasting appeared in …