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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue control and mathematics. Dr. Chang joined IBM Research in 1965, and received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960, 1962 and 1964 respectively.
L. A. Tenenbaum was born in the U.S.S.R. in 1937 and educated in Moscow Physico-Technological Institute specializing in control engineering. After 1960 L. A. Tenenbaum was with Prof. Aizerman's laboratory in the Institute of Control Science (Automatics and Telemechnics), U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Up to 1963 worked in the field of pneumatic control systems. Since 1963 his research interests include control problems in biological systems, especially problems of respiratory control and most recently, of neuromuscular system. In 1967 received his Cand. Techn. Sc. degree at the Institute of Control Science for his thesis on "Control Processes in Respiratory System".
P. E. Mantey was born in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on 15 December, 1938. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., in 1960, the M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., in 1965. From 1963 to June, 1967, he was a member of the Research Staff of Stanford Electronics Labs., Stanford, where he was engaged in research in digital signal processing and control theory. From 1965 to 1967 he also taught graduate courses in automatic control at the University. While at Stanford, he was a consultant to Philco Corp. on problems related to the design of filters and special-purpose computers for spacecraft applications. His previous experience includes analysis and simulation of inertial guidance systems for Boeing, Wichita, Kan. In 1967 he joined the Systems Group of the IBM Research Lab., San Jose, Calif., where he is presently studying problems related to control and digital computers, and specifically the definition of large-scale systems of social interest in which the applications of computers and mathematical system theory can potentially produce solutions. Areas of interest include urban transportation, air traffic control, and land-use modeling related to transportation and urban planning. He is presently heading a project to extend and refine land development. models so that projections of future land use can be readily evaluated with various choices for policies of local governments. In 1968 he was engaged in research in applications of computers for the improved operation of power systems, with special emphasis on the areas of data acquisition, computer requirements, and dynamic rescheduling and control of the system, receiving an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for these efforts. His previous research in IBM involved applications of computers in process control, and in studies of sensitivity of computer-implemented systems to parameter inaccuracies. He is also a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Mantey is a member of Sigma Xi.
A. Chang is at the IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, Calif., where he is currently interested in probabilistic modeling of computer systems. He previously was engaged in research in the use of computers in the simulation, control, and operation of electric power systems and received an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for these efforts. His previous research in IBM included automobile traffic 527
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H. R. Dessau was born in Toronto, Canada on 23 April, 1936. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1958 respectively and the Ph.D. degree fi'om Yale University in 1969. His work experience includes employment with Bendix Pacific, Honeywell, Boston, Dynamics Research Corporation and General Dynamics Electric Boat where he worked on a variety of guidance, navigation, control and estimation problems. Since 1968 he has been with the United Aircraft Research Laboratories where his principal interests have been in the areas of adaptive controls for jet engines, nonlinear control systems and nonlinear filtering. He is a member of IEEE and Sigma Xi.
F. B. Tuteur was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on March 6, 1923. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1944, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., in 1949 and 1954, resectively. Since 1950 he has been a member of the faculty of Yale University and is at present Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also been active as consultant to Sikorsky, AircraftStratford, Conn., Melpar, Inc., Watertown, Mass., and the Rand Corporations, Santa Monica, Calif. His major fields of interest are automatic control and communications systems, and he has been active in a number of research projects in these fields. During the last two years, his research has been mostly in the general area of detection theory, with particular emphasis on sonar and underwater sound detection. He is co-author of the textbook, "Control System Components". Dr. Tuteur is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu.
W. R. Perkins was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on 1 September, 1934. He received the A.B. degree (cum laude) in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1957 and 1961, respectively. During the summer months of 1957 and 1958 he worked on systems problems at the Sylvania Reconnaissance Systems Laboratories, Mountain View, California. At Stanford he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1957 to 1960, and served as Instructor in 1959-1960. Since February, 1961, he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr. Perkins is a member of the American Association of University Professors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
P. V. Kokotovi~ received the Dipl. Ing. degree and the Magistar degree from the University of Belgrade in 1958 and 1963 respectively. In 1965 he received the Kandidat degree from the Institute for Automation and Telemechanics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Until 1966 he was the Head of the Process Analysis and Control Division of the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. He was also with the Electrotechnical Faculty, University of Belgrade. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Automation and Telemechanics in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Presently he is Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A. Professor Kokotovi6 is the Chairman of the Committee on Theory of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
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D. P. Turtle was born in 1946 at Bath in England. He received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from Leicester University in June 1967. In the following 2 years he worked with a process control computer manufacturer on the automation of an industrial chemical plant. The work involved the application of new methods of simultaneous identification and control. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Leicester University in June 1970. At present he is employed as a consultant in the Process Studies Group of ERA's Control and Automation Division based at Leatherhead in England.
P. H. Phillipson was born in Bristol, England on 8 January 1937. He graduated in engineering from Cambridge in 1961. After a year's employment as a research and development engineer at Ferranti Ltd., Wythenshawe, he studied for the Ph.D. degree of Leicester University on the subject of the dynamic and control of mixer-settler extraction tanks. The degree was awarded in 1966. In 1964 he joined the engineering department of Leicester University as assistant lecturer. Current research interests lie in the areas of mathematical modelling of processes and identification techniques.
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R. A. Singer was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on December 8, 1942. He received the B.E.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1964, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1965 and 1968, respectively. As a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow, from 1965 to 1967, he was involved in applications of Kalman filtering and estimation theory to ballistic and aerodynamic target tracking, and participated in analyses of fuzing techniques and warhead capabilities. Head of the Applied Analysis Group at Huges Aircraft Company, Fnllerton, Calif., he is concerned with techiques for control, guidance, estimation, and determination of dynamic characteristics for a variety of ballistic, air supported, and underwater weapons systems, and with the specifications of systems and subsystems requirements and error budgeting for these systems. He has been responsible engineer for various defence systems study contracts involving conceptual system design and leads internal company efforts into development and evaluation of algorithms for performing the functions of surveillance logic including acquisition, tracking, and correlation. Dr. Singer is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, IEEE and the American Meteorological Society.
A. J. Kanyuck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 8 March 1941. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1961, and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1964. He is presently pursuing studies for the Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Irvine on a Hughes Doctoral Fellowship. He joined the Ground Systems Group of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, Calif., in 1961, and spent three years in digital systems design. Since then, most of his time has been devoted to systems analysis of pulse, pulse Doppler, and CW radars for both ground-based and
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missile-seeker applications. He has been responsible for detailed mathematical modelling and simulation of the signal processing function, including effects of ground clutter, volume clutter, and various ECM techniques. Mr. Kanyuck is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and IEEE.
A. Le. Pourhiet was born in Ploudalm6zeau, France, on 3 July 1945. He has been graduated Electrical Engineer ENSEEHT from the Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure d'Electrotechnique et d'Hydraulique de Toulouse. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Laval University, Quebec, in 1969. He is now assistant professor in Electrical Engineering.
H. W. Sorenson (M) was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1936. He received the B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from Iowa State University in 1957 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1963 and 1966, respectively. He worked for General Dynamics/Astronautics from 1957 to 1962 and for the AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation, from 1963 to 1966. After a year as guest scientist at the Institute fiir Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, West Germany, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, where he is now an assistant professor of aerospace engineering. His research activities have been centered on linear and nonlinear stochastic control system problems.
D. L. Alspach was born in 1940 in Wenatchee, Washington. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Washington in 1962 and 1966, respectively and the Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the University of California at San Diego in 1970. From 1963 to 1966 he was a Design Engineer at Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis concerned with attitude control of manned orbiting spacecraft. He was a Staff Associate at the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics from 1966 to 1967 and is presently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His current interests are in nonlinear estimation stochastic control and control theory.
J.-G. Paquet was born in Montmagny, Quebec, Canada, on 5 January 1938. He received a B.Sc. degree (Engineering Physics) from Laval University in 1959, the M.Sc. degree (A6ronautique) from the Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure de l'A6ronautique de Paris in 1960 and the D.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Laval University in 1963. His main interest is non-linear systems and he is the co-author of a book and more than 30 scientific publications in this field. He was appointed assistant professor (1963) of Electrical Engineering Department of Laval University; then associate professor and Head of this Depertment in 1967. He is now Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Sciences, Laval Un iversity Quebec, Canada. He is a member of the Associate Committee on Automatic Control of the National Research Council of Canada, member of Terminology Committee of IFAC, of IEEE, ASEE and other scientific societies.
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E. J. Davison was born in Toronto, Canada in 1938. He received the A.R.C.T. degree in piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto in 1957. He obtained the B.A Sc. degree in Engineering-Physics and the M.A. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1960 and 1961 respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. deglee in Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge England in 1964. He was an Athlone Fellow while in England from 1961 to 1963. His prior experience includes employment with Avro Aircraft Co., Malton, Ontario, the Ontario Hydro Research Division, Toronto, Ontario, the National Research Council of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario, and the Defence Research Board of Canada, Quebec City, Quebec, where he was involved in human operator studies and missile guidance. He was at the University of Toronto, Depertment of Electrical Engineering from 1964 to 1966 as an Assistant Professor and spent the years 1966 to 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is now at the University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering as an Associate Professor. His main interest is in the area of stability, optimization and process control.
S. M. Sato was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 26 July 1943. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1965, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1969 and 1970, respectively From 1966 to 1968 he was a research assistant in the E.E. Department at Northwestern University, and from 1968 to 1970 he held a NASA Graduate Traineeship. He also spent several summers employed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He is presently at Bell Telephone Labs, where his current interests are in system theory and digital signal processing.
H. W. Srn#h was born in Toronto, Canada in 1928. He entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1945, and during the course of his naval service, obtained the B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto (1950) and the Sc.D. in Instrumentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961). F r o m 1953 onwards, he was mainly concerned with research and development, and has managed major projects in the areas of sonar systems, real timecomputer systems, and high-speed marine vehicles. He resigned from the Navy as a Commander in 1966 to join the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, as an Associate Professor, and is currently Professor and Associate Head of the Department. His main interest is in industrial process control, particularly in the basic metallurgical industries.
P. V. Lopresti was born in Johnstown, Pa., on 27 September 1932. He received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1954 and 1958, respectively. and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1963. From 1964 to 1970, he held several academic appointments, teaching and conducting research in automatic control. In September 1970, he joined the Applied Mathematics and Computer Processes Division of the Western Electric Engineering Research Center, Princeton, N.J., as a Member of the Research Staff. His current research interests are in fundamental research in discrete systems theory and in computer applications in signal processing and control. Dr. Lopresti is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi and the American Association for the Advancement o f Science.
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Y. Sawaragi was born in Kyoto, Japan, on December 19, 1916. He received the B.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees both in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University in 1939 and 1949, respectively. He was an associate Professor at Nagoya University from 1941 to 1947 and at Kyoto Universiry from 1947 to 1950. Since 1950 he has been a Professor at Kyoto University and presently he is with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He has been also a Director of the Engineering Research Institute of Kyoto University since 1965. His fields of interest cover the broad area of visco-elasticity, nonlinear oscilliation, statistical theory of nonlinear control systems, sensitivity analysis and computer control of industrial processes. He has authored or co-authored six books in Japanese and two in English: Statistical Studies on Non-Linear Control Systems (Nippon Printing and Publishing Co., 1962) and Statistical Decision Theory in Adaptive Control Systems (Academic Press, 1967). Dr. Sawaragi is a member of the Science Council of Japan.
T. Takamatsu was born in Fukui, Japan in 1925. He received the B.S. in chemical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 1947, and Ph.D. on "Studies on Perforated Plate Fractionating Column" in 1955. Since 1953 he has been working at Kyoto University, and appointed to professor in 1959. He is presently a professor in the department of chemical engineering, Kyoto University, and teaching on "process control" and "system optimization". He spent one year at M.I.T. as a visiting researcher from 1961, and went abroad several times to attend I F A C Meetings and others. Dr. Takamatsu is a member of A.I.Ch.E., IAWPR, Japan Assoc. of Automatic Control Engineers, Soc. of Chem. Engrs, Japan and Japan Soc. of Civil Engineering.
K. Fukunaga was born in Himeji-r~hi, Japan, on 23 July 1930. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1953, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1959, and the Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University, Japan in 1962. From 1953 to 1957 he was with the Central Reaserch Labs. of Mitsubishi Electric Company, Japan, where he performed system analysis on automatic control systems. From 1957 to 1959 he was with the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania, working in the field of switching theory. From 1959 to 1966 he was with the Mitsubishi Electric Company, first with the Central Research Labs., working on computer applications in control systems, and then with the Computer Division, where he was in charge of hardware development. Since 1966 he has been Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. During the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969 he worked with IBM, Endicott, New York, and Rochester Minnesota. His interests include pattern recognition and pattern processing. Dr. Fukunaga in a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
E. Nakanishi was born in Osaka, Japan, on June 13, 1935. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in chemical engineering, from Kyoto University, Japan, 1959, 1961 and 1968, respectively. During academic year 1964--1966 he worked at Kyoto University, Japan, as a Research Associate. Since 1966 he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Kobe University, Japan. His current interests are in the area of optimal design and control of chemical processes. Dr. Nakanishi is a member of the Japan Association of Automatic Control, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, and the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan.
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N.Y. in 1961 and the MSEE from Penn State in 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was employed by the HRB-Singer Company of State College, Pa. as a research engineer with responsibility for the logic design of signal recognition systems, and the design of signal processing methods for a high frequency diversity ratio telemetry link. In 1965 he returned to school and in 1969 received the Ph.D. from Purdue Univresity. At Purdue he performed research in rhe area of nonlinear system identification for the on-line control of industrial chemical processes. At present he is employed by the Ordnance Research Laboratory at Penn State where his primary responsibilities are the design, modeling and simulation of acoustic guidance systems and the development of signal processing techniques for sonar application. Dr. Ricker is a member of IEEE. H. Tamura was born in Nishinomiya, Japan on 9 March 1940. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and Dr.-Eng. degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan in 1962, 1964 and January 1971, respectively. The title of the doctor's thesis is "Systems Control of Transportation Network and Industrial Processes". Since 1964 he has been working at the Central Research Lab., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Amagasaki, Japan as a research engineer. He spent 2 years at the Department of EngineeringEconomic Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. as a graduate student receiving Stanford Graduate Fellowship and Fulbright travel grant, from 1966 to 1968. He held summer employment with Information and Control Lab., Stanford Research Insitute, Menlo Park, Calif. in 1967, where he worked on operations analysis for future urban transportation systems. He is presently a senior research engineer at the Central Research Lab. of Mutsubishi Electric Corp., ~here he is concerned with optimization techniques of control theory as applied to systems control problems of urban transportation and industrial process systems. Dr. Tamura is a member of IEEE, Japan Assoc. of Automatic Control Engineers and lEE of Japan.
D. W. Ricker was born on 4 January 1939 in East Orange, N.J. He received the BEE from Union College, Schenectady,
G. N. Saridis was born in Athens, Greece, on 17 November, 1931. He received the diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1955, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, in 1962 and 1965, respectively. F r o m 1955 to 1961, he was an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. From 1963 to 1965, he was an Instructor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. In 1965 he became Assistant Professor, and he now holds the rank of Associate Professor at the same University. Dr. Saridis is a membzr of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Simulation Councils, Inc. and AAUP.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue control and mathematics. Dr. Chang joined IBM Research in 1965, and received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960, 1962 and 1964 respectively.
L. A. Tenenbaum was born in the U.S.S.R. in 1937 and educated in Moscow Physico-Technological Institute specializing in control engineering. After 1960 L. A. Tenenbaum was with Prof. Aizerman's laboratory in the Institute of Control Science (Automatics and Telemechnics), U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Up to 1963 worked in the field of pneumatic control systems. Since 1963 his research interests include control problems in biological systems, especially problems of respiratory control and most recently, of neuromuscular system. In 1967 received his Cand. Techn. Sc. degree at the Institute of Control Science for his thesis on "Control Processes in Respiratory System".
P. E. Mantey was born in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on 15 December, 1938. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., in 1960, the M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., in 1965. From 1963 to June, 1967, he was a member of the Research Staff of Stanford Electronics Labs., Stanford, where he was engaged in research in digital signal processing and control theory. From 1965 to 1967 he also taught graduate courses in automatic control at the University. While at Stanford, he was a consultant to Philco Corp. on problems related to the design of filters and special-purpose computers for spacecraft applications. His previous experience includes analysis and simulation of inertial guidance systems for Boeing, Wichita, Kan. In 1967 he joined the Systems Group of the IBM Research Lab., San Jose, Calif., where he is presently studying problems related to control and digital computers, and specifically the definition of large-scale systems of social interest in which the applications of computers and mathematical system theory can potentially produce solutions. Areas of interest include urban transportation, air traffic control, and land-use modeling related to transportation and urban planning. He is presently heading a project to extend and refine land development. models so that projections of future land use can be readily evaluated with various choices for policies of local governments. In 1968 he was engaged in research in applications of computers for the improved operation of power systems, with special emphasis on the areas of data acquisition, computer requirements, and dynamic rescheduling and control of the system, receiving an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for these efforts. His previous research in IBM involved applications of computers in process control, and in studies of sensitivity of computer-implemented systems to parameter inaccuracies. He is also a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Mantey is a member of Sigma Xi.
A. Chang is at the IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, Calif., where he is currently interested in probabilistic modeling of computer systems. He previously was engaged in research in the use of computers in the simulation, control, and operation of electric power systems and received an IBM Outstanding Contribution Award for these efforts. His previous research in IBM included automobile traffic 527
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H. R. Dessau was born in Toronto, Canada on 23 April, 1936. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1958 respectively and the Ph.D. degree fi'om Yale University in 1969. His work experience includes employment with Bendix Pacific, Honeywell, Boston, Dynamics Research Corporation and General Dynamics Electric Boat where he worked on a variety of guidance, navigation, control and estimation problems. Since 1968 he has been with the United Aircraft Research Laboratories where his principal interests have been in the areas of adaptive controls for jet engines, nonlinear control systems and nonlinear filtering. He is a member of IEEE and Sigma Xi.
F. B. Tuteur was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on March 6, 1923. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1944, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Conn., in 1949 and 1954, resectively. Since 1950 he has been a member of the faculty of Yale University and is at present Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also been active as consultant to Sikorsky, AircraftStratford, Conn., Melpar, Inc., Watertown, Mass., and the Rand Corporations, Santa Monica, Calif. His major fields of interest are automatic control and communications systems, and he has been active in a number of research projects in these fields. During the last two years, his research has been mostly in the general area of detection theory, with particular emphasis on sonar and underwater sound detection. He is co-author of the textbook, "Control System Components". Dr. Tuteur is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu.
W. R. Perkins was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on 1 September, 1934. He received the A.B. degree (cum laude) in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1957 and 1961, respectively. During the summer months of 1957 and 1958 he worked on systems problems at the Sylvania Reconnaissance Systems Laboratories, Mountain View, California. At Stanford he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1957 to 1960, and served as Instructor in 1959-1960. Since February, 1961, he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr. Perkins is a member of the American Association of University Professors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
P. V. Kokotovi~ received the Dipl. Ing. degree and the Magistar degree from the University of Belgrade in 1958 and 1963 respectively. In 1965 he received the Kandidat degree from the Institute for Automation and Telemechanics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Until 1966 he was the Head of the Process Analysis and Control Division of the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. He was also with the Electrotechnical Faculty, University of Belgrade. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Automation and Telemechanics in Moscow, U.S.S.R. Presently he is Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A. Professor Kokotovi6 is the Chairman of the Committee on Theory of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
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D. P. Turtle was born in 1946 at Bath in England. He received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from Leicester University in June 1967. In the following 2 years he worked with a process control computer manufacturer on the automation of an industrial chemical plant. The work involved the application of new methods of simultaneous identification and control. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree by Leicester University in June 1970. At present he is employed as a consultant in the Process Studies Group of ERA's Control and Automation Division based at Leatherhead in England.
P. H. Phillipson was born in Bristol, England on 8 January 1937. He graduated in engineering from Cambridge in 1961. After a year's employment as a research and development engineer at Ferranti Ltd., Wythenshawe, he studied for the Ph.D. degree of Leicester University on the subject of the dynamic and control of mixer-settler extraction tanks. The degree was awarded in 1966. In 1964 he joined the engineering department of Leicester University as assistant lecturer. Current research interests lie in the areas of mathematical modelling of processes and identification techniques.
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R. A. Singer was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on December 8, 1942. He received the B.E.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1964, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1965 and 1968, respectively. As a Howard Hughes Doctoral Fellow, from 1965 to 1967, he was involved in applications of Kalman filtering and estimation theory to ballistic and aerodynamic target tracking, and participated in analyses of fuzing techniques and warhead capabilities. Head of the Applied Analysis Group at Huges Aircraft Company, Fnllerton, Calif., he is concerned with techiques for control, guidance, estimation, and determination of dynamic characteristics for a variety of ballistic, air supported, and underwater weapons systems, and with the specifications of systems and subsystems requirements and error budgeting for these systems. He has been responsible engineer for various defence systems study contracts involving conceptual system design and leads internal company efforts into development and evaluation of algorithms for performing the functions of surveillance logic including acquisition, tracking, and correlation. Dr. Singer is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, IEEE and the American Meteorological Society.
A. J. Kanyuck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 8 March 1941. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1961, and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1964. He is presently pursuing studies for the Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Irvine on a Hughes Doctoral Fellowship. He joined the Ground Systems Group of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Fullerton, Calif., in 1961, and spent three years in digital systems design. Since then, most of his time has been devoted to systems analysis of pulse, pulse Doppler, and CW radars for both ground-based and
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missile-seeker applications. He has been responsible for detailed mathematical modelling and simulation of the signal processing function, including effects of ground clutter, volume clutter, and various ECM techniques. Mr. Kanyuck is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and IEEE.
A. Le. Pourhiet was born in Ploudalm6zeau, France, on 3 July 1945. He has been graduated Electrical Engineer ENSEEHT from the Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure d'Electrotechnique et d'Hydraulique de Toulouse. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Laval University, Quebec, in 1969. He is now assistant professor in Electrical Engineering.
H. W. Sorenson (M) was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1936. He received the B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from Iowa State University in 1957 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1963 and 1966, respectively. He worked for General Dynamics/Astronautics from 1957 to 1962 and for the AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation, from 1963 to 1966. After a year as guest scientist at the Institute fiir Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, West Germany, he joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, where he is now an assistant professor of aerospace engineering. His research activities have been centered on linear and nonlinear stochastic control system problems.
D. L. Alspach was born in 1940 in Wenatchee, Washington. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Washington in 1962 and 1966, respectively and the Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the University of California at San Diego in 1970. From 1963 to 1966 he was a Design Engineer at Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis concerned with attitude control of manned orbiting spacecraft. He was a Staff Associate at the General Atomic Division of General Dynamics from 1966 to 1967 and is presently an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His current interests are in nonlinear estimation stochastic control and control theory.
J.-G. Paquet was born in Montmagny, Quebec, Canada, on 5 January 1938. He received a B.Sc. degree (Engineering Physics) from Laval University in 1959, the M.Sc. degree (A6ronautique) from the Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure de l'A6ronautique de Paris in 1960 and the D.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Laval University in 1963. His main interest is non-linear systems and he is the co-author of a book and more than 30 scientific publications in this field. He was appointed assistant professor (1963) of Electrical Engineering Department of Laval University; then associate professor and Head of this Depertment in 1967. He is now Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Sciences, Laval Un iversity Quebec, Canada. He is a member of the Associate Committee on Automatic Control of the National Research Council of Canada, member of Terminology Committee of IFAC, of IEEE, ASEE and other scientific societies.
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E. J. Davison was born in Toronto, Canada in 1938. He received the A.R.C.T. degree in piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto in 1957. He obtained the B.A Sc. degree in Engineering-Physics and the M.A. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1960 and 1961 respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. deglee in Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge England in 1964. He was an Athlone Fellow while in England from 1961 to 1963. His prior experience includes employment with Avro Aircraft Co., Malton, Ontario, the Ontario Hydro Research Division, Toronto, Ontario, the National Research Council of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario, and the Defence Research Board of Canada, Quebec City, Quebec, where he was involved in human operator studies and missile guidance. He was at the University of Toronto, Depertment of Electrical Engineering from 1964 to 1966 as an Assistant Professor and spent the years 1966 to 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is now at the University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering as an Associate Professor. His main interest is in the area of stability, optimization and process control.
S. M. Sato was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 26 July 1943. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1965, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1969 and 1970, respectively From 1966 to 1968 he was a research assistant in the E.E. Department at Northwestern University, and from 1968 to 1970 he held a NASA Graduate Traineeship. He also spent several summers employed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. He is presently at Bell Telephone Labs, where his current interests are in system theory and digital signal processing.
H. W. Srn#h was born in Toronto, Canada in 1928. He entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1945, and during the course of his naval service, obtained the B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto (1950) and the Sc.D. in Instrumentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961). F r o m 1953 onwards, he was mainly concerned with research and development, and has managed major projects in the areas of sonar systems, real timecomputer systems, and high-speed marine vehicles. He resigned from the Navy as a Commander in 1966 to join the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, as an Associate Professor, and is currently Professor and Associate Head of the Department. His main interest is in industrial process control, particularly in the basic metallurgical industries.
P. V. Lopresti was born in Johnstown, Pa., on 27 September 1932. He received the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Notre Dame in 1954 and 1958, respectively. and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1963. From 1964 to 1970, he held several academic appointments, teaching and conducting research in automatic control. In September 1970, he joined the Applied Mathematics and Computer Processes Division of the Western Electric Engineering Research Center, Princeton, N.J., as a Member of the Research Staff. His current research interests are in fundamental research in discrete systems theory and in computer applications in signal processing and control. Dr. Lopresti is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi and the American Association for the Advancement o f Science.
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Y. Sawaragi was born in Kyoto, Japan, on December 19, 1916. He received the B.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees both in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University in 1939 and 1949, respectively. He was an associate Professor at Nagoya University from 1941 to 1947 and at Kyoto Universiry from 1947 to 1950. Since 1950 he has been a Professor at Kyoto University and presently he is with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He has been also a Director of the Engineering Research Institute of Kyoto University since 1965. His fields of interest cover the broad area of visco-elasticity, nonlinear oscilliation, statistical theory of nonlinear control systems, sensitivity analysis and computer control of industrial processes. He has authored or co-authored six books in Japanese and two in English: Statistical Studies on Non-Linear Control Systems (Nippon Printing and Publishing Co., 1962) and Statistical Decision Theory in Adaptive Control Systems (Academic Press, 1967). Dr. Sawaragi is a member of the Science Council of Japan.
T. Takamatsu was born in Fukui, Japan in 1925. He received the B.S. in chemical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 1947, and Ph.D. on "Studies on Perforated Plate Fractionating Column" in 1955. Since 1953 he has been working at Kyoto University, and appointed to professor in 1959. He is presently a professor in the department of chemical engineering, Kyoto University, and teaching on "process control" and "system optimization". He spent one year at M.I.T. as a visiting researcher from 1961, and went abroad several times to attend I F A C Meetings and others. Dr. Takamatsu is a member of A.I.Ch.E., IAWPR, Japan Assoc. of Automatic Control Engineers, Soc. of Chem. Engrs, Japan and Japan Soc. of Civil Engineering.
K. Fukunaga was born in Himeji-r~hi, Japan, on 23 July 1930. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1953, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1959, and the Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University, Japan in 1962. From 1953 to 1957 he was with the Central Reaserch Labs. of Mitsubishi Electric Company, Japan, where he performed system analysis on automatic control systems. From 1957 to 1959 he was with the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania, working in the field of switching theory. From 1959 to 1966 he was with the Mitsubishi Electric Company, first with the Central Research Labs., working on computer applications in control systems, and then with the Computer Division, where he was in charge of hardware development. Since 1966 he has been Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. During the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969 he worked with IBM, Endicott, New York, and Rochester Minnesota. His interests include pattern recognition and pattern processing. Dr. Fukunaga in a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
E. Nakanishi was born in Osaka, Japan, on June 13, 1935. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in chemical engineering, from Kyoto University, Japan, 1959, 1961 and 1968, respectively. During academic year 1964--1966 he worked at Kyoto University, Japan, as a Research Associate. Since 1966 he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Kobe University, Japan. His current interests are in the area of optimal design and control of chemical processes. Dr. Nakanishi is a member of the Japan Association of Automatic Control, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, and the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan.
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N.Y. in 1961 and the MSEE from Penn State in 1963. From 1963 to 1965 he was employed by the HRB-Singer Company of State College, Pa. as a research engineer with responsibility for the logic design of signal recognition systems, and the design of signal processing methods for a high frequency diversity ratio telemetry link. In 1965 he returned to school and in 1969 received the Ph.D. from Purdue Univresity. At Purdue he performed research in rhe area of nonlinear system identification for the on-line control of industrial chemical processes. At present he is employed by the Ordnance Research Laboratory at Penn State where his primary responsibilities are the design, modeling and simulation of acoustic guidance systems and the development of signal processing techniques for sonar application. Dr. Ricker is a member of IEEE. H. Tamura was born in Nishinomiya, Japan on 9 March 1940. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and Dr.-Eng. degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan in 1962, 1964 and January 1971, respectively. The title of the doctor's thesis is "Systems Control of Transportation Network and Industrial Processes". Since 1964 he has been working at the Central Research Lab., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Amagasaki, Japan as a research engineer. He spent 2 years at the Department of EngineeringEconomic Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. as a graduate student receiving Stanford Graduate Fellowship and Fulbright travel grant, from 1966 to 1968. He held summer employment with Information and Control Lab., Stanford Research Insitute, Menlo Park, Calif. in 1967, where he worked on operations analysis for future urban transportation systems. He is presently a senior research engineer at the Central Research Lab. of Mutsubishi Electric Corp., ~here he is concerned with optimization techniques of control theory as applied to systems control problems of urban transportation and industrial process systems. Dr. Tamura is a member of IEEE, Japan Assoc. of Automatic Control Engineers and lEE of Japan.
D. W. Ricker was born on 4 January 1939 in East Orange, N.J. He received the BEE from Union College, Schenectady,
G. N. Saridis was born in Athens, Greece, on 17 November, 1931. He received the diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1955, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, in 1962 and 1965, respectively. F r o m 1955 to 1961, he was an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. From 1963 to 1965, he was an Instructor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. In 1965 he became Assistant Professor, and he now holds the rank of Associate Professor at the same University. Dr. Saridis is a membzr of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Simulation Councils, Inc. and AAUP.