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Automatica, Vol. 9, pp. 643-647. Pergamon Press, 1973. Printed in Great Britain.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Dr. Sinha is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (London), a Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. He was the Founder Chairman of the Hamilton Section IEEE Joint Chapter on Circuit Theory, Automatic Control, Computers, Information Theory and Communication Technology.
George T. Bereznai (S'68, M'72) was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 July 1941. He received the B.E. degree with first class honours in Electrical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South-Australia, in 1967, and the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1969 and 1972, respectively. In 1971 he joined the Nuclear Training Centre of Ontario Hydro, and is currently involved in the development of mathematical models for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station and in the preperation of specifications for a training simulator.
Gerard Duyfjes, born 7 August 1935, graduated in Techniccal Physics at the Technological University of Delft, Holland in 1958. After 2 years of research with the Dutch Navy he worked until 1965 with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in the Exploration and Production Department, where he was specifically concerned with oil-reservoir engineering. Having gradually come more into contact with the control of processes in general, he joined, in 1965, the Central Laboratory of DSM/Holland, department of Mathematics and Process Control. Since then he has worked especially on model building, control and optimization of chemical processes, with or without the aid of process computers. He has published some papers on this subject. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Engineers, Netherlands.
Naresh K. Sinha was born in Gaya, India, on 25 July 1927. He received the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree from Benares Hindu University, India, in 1948, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester, England, 1955. From 1950 to 1961 he taught at Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, and was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1961 to 1965. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1965 and is currently a Professor. He has authored or co-authored over 70 technical publications and his current research interests are in the areas of optimal control and estimation, adaptive systems and applications to industrial problems.
Paul M . E . M van der Grinten, born 12 December 1933 received his E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technological 643
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Universities of Delft and Eindhoven repectively. After having worked for two years as an electronic engineer at the laboratories of the Dutch Navy, he entered the service of the Central Laboratory of DSM, Holland, as an instrument engineer. Later be conducted a research group on process control, and now is manager of the department of Mathematics and Process Control. He held part-time teaching posts at the Universities of Delft and Brussels. He was professor of Systems and Control Engineering at the University of Groningen from 1969 till 1972 and at the Technological University of Eindhoven from 1972 onwards. He was granted the Chair Vancauteren at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1970. He published three books and a number of papers on process control, stochastic control and world dynamics. He is member of the Editorial Board of Automatics.
Lee Roy Bronner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Systems Engineering Department, Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and a member of Sigma Xi. From 1963 to 1966, he was a member of the United States Air Force assigned to the Electronic Systems Division where he managed the design and testing of electronic equipment for high frequency phased array antenna systems. He joined the IBM Corporation as a Systems Engineer in July of 1966 and worked there until September, 1970. His work there involved the design and implementation of computer systems for business and process control applications in the Petroleum Industry.
E. J. Davison. For photograph and biography see Automatica 9, 441-452 (1973).
A. G. MacFarlane. For photograph and biography see Automatiea 8, 455-492 (1972).
James D. Schoeffler is Professor of Engineering and a member of the Control of Complex Systems Group of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve Univerersity. He directs the Systems Engineering laboratory involving on-line data acquisition and control computers and facilities for simulation and computer aided design. His research and consulting activities are in the area of systems engineering and including computer aided design, digital, analog, and hybrid simulation, applied control theory, and the implementation of on-line data acquisition and control systems. He has developed special purpose programming languages for realtime systems which are particularly well suited to minicomputer applications. In these areas, he has served as a consultant to many companies including 1 year on leave from Case Western Reserve University spent with the IBM Corporation designing on-line control systems for the paper industry. He received his education at Case Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering.). He has been at Case since 1960. He has authored many papers in the areas of computer software. He is a member of EEIE and ACM, as well as several honorary organizations.
Jack J. Belletrutti was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1945. He received the B.Eng. degree (Mechanical Engineering) at
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Sir George Williams University, Monteal, in 1969 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Systems at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, England, in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He was an Athlone Fellow while studying in England from 1969 to 1972. He is now a Lecturer in Control Systems at the Control Systems Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Isaac Horowitz obtained the B.E.E. degree at M.I.T. in 1948, the Master's and Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn in 1953, 1956 respectively. His experience in industry includes 8 years at Hughes Aircraft Co., 5 at Hughes Research Labs. and 3 in the Guidance and Controlled Division as Senior Scientist. Since 1969 he is Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and also Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, where he spends one semester during the year.
Charles P. Neuman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 26 July 1940. He received the B.S. (Honours) in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1962 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1963 and 1968, respectively. At Harvard, he was a teaching fellow from 1962 to 1964 and a research assistant from 1964 to 1967. From July 1967 to June 1969 he was a Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey. In July 1969, Dr. Neuman became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. Since September 1971, he has been Associate Professor. His current research interests include control engineering applications of weighted residual methods, numerical computation, sensitivity analysis and stability theory, and the application of mathematics to practical system analysis problems. Dr. Neuman is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man a~d Cybernetics and Automatic Control Theory and Applications. He is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, the Institute of Management Sciences, AAAS, The New York Academy of Sciences, and Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Society of Harvard Engineers and Scientists and is listed in American Men of Science.
Marcel J. Sidi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 9 November 1934. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1959 and 1961 respectively. From 1961 to 1966 he was employed by The Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Nahal Soreq, as development engineer in nucleonic instrumentation. Since 1966 he has been with the Israel Aircraft Industries, Lod, as development engineer in avionics control systems. Since 1969 he is a part time student at the Weizman Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, where he is now terminating his doctorate thesis.
Amitava Sen was born in Bombay, India on 5 May 1947. He received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1968 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1969 and 1973, respectively. From 1968 to 1972, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. Since October 1972, he has been a Post Doctoral Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His research interests include control engineering, simulation and computer systems. Dr. Sen is a member of IEEE.
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Tsuyoshi Goka was born in Nagoya, Japan on 28 January 1944. He received the B.S. Degree in Engineering Science in 1966 and the D.Sc. Degree in Control Systems Science and Engineering in 1971, both from Washington University. He was employed briefly as a Research Associate by the Laboratory of Control Systems Science and Engineering of Washington University. Currently, he is an NRC Research Associate at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. His current interest is in the area of nonlinear estimation problems associated with aircraft trajectories. He is member of Sigma Xi and Pi Tau Sigma.
Tzyh-Jong Tam was born in Szechwan, China in 1937o He received the B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University in 1959, M.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey in 1965 and D.S. Degree in Control Systems Science and Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1968. Since 1968 he has been with the Program of Control Systems Science and Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a Research Associate until 1969, an Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1972, and Associate Professor since 1972. His research interests include
Zaborszky John
was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 13 May 1914. He received the Diploma of Engineering in 1937 and the D.Sc. Degree in 1943 from the Royal Hungarian Technical University, Budapest, Hungary. In 1947 when he left Hungary, he was a Chief Engineer with the Municipal Electric Works of Budapest and a Docens at the Royal Hungarian Technical University. In the United States, he was associated first with the University of Missouri, Rolla, then in 1955 with Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. He has been a full Professor since 1951 and is currently Chairman of Control Systems Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering. He is a consultant to a number of industrial firms. He has published two books and since 1950, about 40 papers in various fields of control theory. He was Chairman of the IEEE Group on Automatic Control in 1970 and General Chairman of the Joint Automatic Control Conference 1971. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Member of ASME, AIAA and SIAM.
Per 'Hagander was born in Ystad, Sweden in 1944. In 1968 he received the "civilingenj6r" and in 1971 the "teknologie licentiat" in Automatic Control and Mathematics from the Lund Institute of Technology. He is currently employed as a research assistant at the Division of Automatic Control, Lund.
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William E. Schmitendore was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on 6 August 1941. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1963, 1965 and 1968, respectively, from Purdue University, all in engineering sciences. Since 1967 he has been with the Mechanical Engineering and Astronautical Sciences Department at Northwestern University where is presently an associate professor. His current research interests are in optimal control theory and differential games. Dr. Schmitendorf is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi.
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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Dr. Sinha is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (London), a Member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. He was the Founder Chairman of the Hamilton Section IEEE Joint Chapter on Circuit Theory, Automatic Control, Computers, Information Theory and Communication Technology.
George T. Bereznai (S'68, M'72) was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 July 1941. He received the B.E. degree with first class honours in Electrical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South-Australia, in 1967, and the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1969 and 1972, respectively. In 1971 he joined the Nuclear Training Centre of Ontario Hydro, and is currently involved in the development of mathematical models for the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station and in the preperation of specifications for a training simulator.
Gerard Duyfjes, born 7 August 1935, graduated in Techniccal Physics at the Technological University of Delft, Holland in 1958. After 2 years of research with the Dutch Navy he worked until 1965 with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in the Exploration and Production Department, where he was specifically concerned with oil-reservoir engineering. Having gradually come more into contact with the control of processes in general, he joined, in 1965, the Central Laboratory of DSM/Holland, department of Mathematics and Process Control. Since then he has worked especially on model building, control and optimization of chemical processes, with or without the aid of process computers. He has published some papers on this subject. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Engineers, Netherlands.
Naresh K. Sinha was born in Gaya, India, on 25 July 1927. He received the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree from Benares Hindu University, India, in 1948, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester, England, 1955. From 1950 to 1961 he taught at Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, and was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1961 to 1965. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1965 and is currently a Professor. He has authored or co-authored over 70 technical publications and his current research interests are in the areas of optimal control and estimation, adaptive systems and applications to industrial problems.
Paul M . E . M van der Grinten, born 12 December 1933 received his E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technological 643
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Universities of Delft and Eindhoven repectively. After having worked for two years as an electronic engineer at the laboratories of the Dutch Navy, he entered the service of the Central Laboratory of DSM, Holland, as an instrument engineer. Later be conducted a research group on process control, and now is manager of the department of Mathematics and Process Control. He held part-time teaching posts at the Universities of Delft and Brussels. He was professor of Systems and Control Engineering at the University of Groningen from 1969 till 1972 and at the Technological University of Eindhoven from 1972 onwards. He was granted the Chair Vancauteren at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1970. He published three books and a number of papers on process control, stochastic control and world dynamics. He is member of the Editorial Board of Automatics.
Lee Roy Bronner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Systems Engineering Department, Case Institute of Technology, Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and a member of Sigma Xi. From 1963 to 1966, he was a member of the United States Air Force assigned to the Electronic Systems Division where he managed the design and testing of electronic equipment for high frequency phased array antenna systems. He joined the IBM Corporation as a Systems Engineer in July of 1966 and worked there until September, 1970. His work there involved the design and implementation of computer systems for business and process control applications in the Petroleum Industry.
E. J. Davison. For photograph and biography see Automatica 9, 441-452 (1973).
A. G. MacFarlane. For photograph and biography see Automatiea 8, 455-492 (1972).
James D. Schoeffler is Professor of Engineering and a member of the Control of Complex Systems Group of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve Univerersity. He directs the Systems Engineering laboratory involving on-line data acquisition and control computers and facilities for simulation and computer aided design. His research and consulting activities are in the area of systems engineering and including computer aided design, digital, analog, and hybrid simulation, applied control theory, and the implementation of on-line data acquisition and control systems. He has developed special purpose programming languages for realtime systems which are particularly well suited to minicomputer applications. In these areas, he has served as a consultant to many companies including 1 year on leave from Case Western Reserve University spent with the IBM Corporation designing on-line control systems for the paper industry. He received his education at Case Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering.). He has been at Case since 1960. He has authored many papers in the areas of computer software. He is a member of EEIE and ACM, as well as several honorary organizations.
Jack J. Belletrutti was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1945. He received the B.Eng. degree (Mechanical Engineering) at
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Sir George Williams University, Monteal, in 1969 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Systems at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, England, in 1970 and 1972 respectively. He was an Athlone Fellow while studying in England from 1969 to 1972. He is now a Lecturer in Control Systems at the Control Systems Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Isaac Horowitz obtained the B.E.E. degree at M.I.T. in 1948, the Master's and Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn in 1953, 1956 respectively. His experience in industry includes 8 years at Hughes Aircraft Co., 5 at Hughes Research Labs. and 3 in the Guidance and Controlled Division as Senior Scientist. Since 1969 he is Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and also Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, where he spends one semester during the year.
Charles P. Neuman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 26 July 1940. He received the B.S. (Honours) in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1962 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1963 and 1968, respectively. At Harvard, he was a teaching fellow from 1962 to 1964 and a research assistant from 1964 to 1967. From July 1967 to June 1969 he was a Member of the Technical Staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey. In July 1969, Dr. Neuman became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. Since September 1971, he has been Associate Professor. His current research interests include control engineering applications of weighted residual methods, numerical computation, sensitivity analysis and stability theory, and the application of mathematics to practical system analysis problems. Dr. Neuman is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man a~d Cybernetics and Automatic Control Theory and Applications. He is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, the Institute of Management Sciences, AAAS, The New York Academy of Sciences, and Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Society of Harvard Engineers and Scientists and is listed in American Men of Science.
Marcel J. Sidi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 9 November 1934. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1959 and 1961 respectively. From 1961 to 1966 he was employed by The Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Nahal Soreq, as development engineer in nucleonic instrumentation. Since 1966 he has been with the Israel Aircraft Industries, Lod, as development engineer in avionics control systems. Since 1969 he is a part time student at the Weizman Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, where he is now terminating his doctorate thesis.
Amitava Sen was born in Bombay, India on 5 May 1947. He received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1968 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1969 and 1973, respectively. From 1968 to 1972, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. Since October 1972, he has been a Post Doctoral Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His research interests include control engineering, simulation and computer systems. Dr. Sen is a member of IEEE.
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Biographical notes filtering and estimation, optimal control of discrete linear and bilinear systems• Dr. Tam is a member of IEEE, AIChE and Sigma Xi.
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Tsuyoshi Goka was born in Nagoya, Japan on 28 January 1944. He received the B.S. Degree in Engineering Science in 1966 and the D.Sc. Degree in Control Systems Science and Engineering in 1971, both from Washington University. He was employed briefly as a Research Associate by the Laboratory of Control Systems Science and Engineering of Washington University. Currently, he is an NRC Research Associate at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. His current interest is in the area of nonlinear estimation problems associated with aircraft trajectories. He is member of Sigma Xi and Pi Tau Sigma.
Tzyh-Jong Tam was born in Szechwan, China in 1937o He received the B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University in 1959, M.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey in 1965 and D.S. Degree in Control Systems Science and Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1968. Since 1968 he has been with the Program of Control Systems Science and Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a Research Associate until 1969, an Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1972, and Associate Professor since 1972. His research interests include
Zaborszky John
was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 13 May 1914. He received the Diploma of Engineering in 1937 and the D.Sc. Degree in 1943 from the Royal Hungarian Technical University, Budapest, Hungary. In 1947 when he left Hungary, he was a Chief Engineer with the Municipal Electric Works of Budapest and a Docens at the Royal Hungarian Technical University. In the United States, he was associated first with the University of Missouri, Rolla, then in 1955 with Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. He has been a full Professor since 1951 and is currently Chairman of Control Systems Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering. He is a consultant to a number of industrial firms. He has published two books and since 1950, about 40 papers in various fields of control theory. He was Chairman of the IEEE Group on Automatic Control in 1970 and General Chairman of the Joint Automatic Control Conference 1971. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Member of ASME, AIAA and SIAM.
Per 'Hagander was born in Ystad, Sweden in 1944. In 1968 he received the "civilingenj6r" and in 1971 the "teknologie licentiat" in Automatic Control and Mathematics from the Lund Institute of Technology. He is currently employed as a research assistant at the Division of Automatic Control, Lund.
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William E. Schmitendore was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on 6 August 1941. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1963, 1965 and 1968, respectively, from Purdue University, all in engineering sciences. Since 1967 he has been with the Mechanical Engineering and Astronautical Sciences Department at Northwestern University where is presently an associate professor. His current research interests are in optimal control theory and differential games. Dr. Schmitendorf is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi.
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