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Biographical notes on contributors to this issue
Au~omaticu, Vol. 12, pp. 107-110. Pergamon Press, 1976. Printed in Great Britain
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Clam G. ILHllstrth was born in SMvesborg, Sweden, in 1945. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjiir) in electrical engineering in 1970 from the Lund Institute of Technology. -_ Lund. Sweden. He is currently em: ployed as a research engineer at the Department of Automatic Control at the Lund Institute of He is mainly Technology. interested in system identification and autopilot design for large tankers.
UIf BorIsson was born in Urn&, Sweden, on 19 December 1945. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjor) in applied physics from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, in 1968. In 1968 he was employed as a teaching assistant at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund. In 1972-3 he worked on adaptive control of paper machines in a joint project with the company Billerud AB, Sweden, and the Lund Institute of Technology. He is currently a research engineer at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund. His main research interests are in the field of adaptive control and identification.
GemId L. Park was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February 1933. In 1955, he received the B.M.E. degree from the University of Minnesota, in 1958 the M.S. in engineering science from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He was assigned to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1955 to Instructor at the University of Minnesota in 1958. Since 1964 he has been at Michigan State University where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science teaching systems design and simulation courses and directing research and writing on control, estimation and simulation problems in power systems and on wind-energy systems. Dr. Park is a Registered Professional Engineers in Michigan and is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and CIGRE and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Rolf Syding was born in
MalmB, Sweden, on 8 May 1944. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjor) in technical-physics in 1967 from the Lund Institute of Technology. He served as an assistant teacher at the Division of Automatic Control from 1967 to 1969,when he was employed by the LKAB Mininn Comaanv as / systems engineer.-He id mainly interested in systems and control applications to benefication and in the mining industry.
K. J. ktrthu was
born in 1934. He received his Civ. Ing. degree in technical physics in 1951 and the Tekn. Lit. degree in automatic control and mathematics in 1960 both from the Royal / Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1955 to 1960 he held various teaching positions at the KTH. During 1957-60 he also worked on inertial guidance for the Research Institute of National Defence, Stockholm. In 1961 he joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on theory and applications of process control. He worked with optimal and stochastic control theory as a visiting scientist at IBM Research, San Jose, California, in 1962-3. Since 1965 he has been Professor of the Chair of Automatic Control at the Lund Institute of Technology/ University of Lund. During the academic year 1969-70 he was visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Providence, RI. He has had published two books, Reglerteori (in Swedish), and Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, and 30 papers on optimal control, stochastic control, identification, adaptive control and applications of control theory.
Robert A. Schlpeta was
born in Buffalo, N.Y., on 11 May 1942. He received his B.E.E. and M.E.E. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklvn in 1964. 1967 and 1972, respectively. He has worked on automatic control systems for Grumman Aircraft and Sperry Gyroscope. Since 1971 he has been at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science. His current research interests are in estimation, identification and control and its application. He has conducted research and directed research projects on application of this theory to power, industrial and communication systems. Dr. Schlueter is a member of the IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu. 107
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Anil V. Phatak was born in Baroda, India, on 7 August 1939. He received his B.E. degree from the University of Baroda. Baroda, India, in 1960, the M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California, in 1968. all in electrical engineering. After completing his Master’s degree in 1961, he joined the staff of Systems Technology, Inc., Hawthorne, California, where he worked until 1967 in the areas of human operator modelling and manual control systems. From 1968 to 1969, he was a Research Associate with the Man-Vehicle Laboratory of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was on the Faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, from 1969 to 1971, where he was atfiliated with the Controls and Biomedical Engineering Programs. He has been with Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, since 1971 and is currently the Manager of the Man-Machine Systems Division of the Aeronautical and Marine Systems Sector. His interests lie in the areas of control systems, system identifitition and physiological systems.
Howard W&test was born in Philadelphia on 29 May 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. in electrical engineering in 1967, and from Stanford University with an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1968 and 1972, respectively. From 1968 to 1970 he was employed at GTE Sylvania where he was engaged in modelling laser propagation through the atmosphere. From 1972 to 1974 he was employed at Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, where he conducted basic research in system identification. Since 1974, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University. Howard Weinert is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and IEEE. His research interests are in the areas of statistical communication theory, approximation theory and systems theory.
Ilana segnil received her B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1968. Until 1971 she held the position of research engineer at the Scientific Department of the Israeli Ministry of Defence working on large-scale simulations of airborne systems. From 1971 to 1974 she was with Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, where she worked as programmer/analyst on a variety of identification problems. She is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.
Carroll N. Day was born m Grand Forks, North Dakota, on 20 March 1937. He received his B.S.E.E.in1959andhisM.S.E.E. in 1961 from the University of North Dakota and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1967 from Ohio State University. Since February 1973, he has been the Chief of the Systems Technology Branch, Environmental Medicine Division, Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In his position as Branch Chief, he is responsible for conducting research in identification theory and human operator descriptions and serves as a consultant in human operator identification, manned weapon systems evaluation and simulation. His special interests include statistical communication theory, identification and estimation theory, and man-machine systems.
Daniel Tabak was born in Poland in 1934. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and the M.S. degree in nuclear science in 1963, both from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technoloav. __, Haifa. Israel. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., in 1967. From 1966 to 1968 he was employed as a guidance and control systems engineer with the General Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pa. During this time he also taught graduate evening courses in automatic control at the extension of the Pennsylvania State University, King of Prussia, Pa. From 1968 to 1970 he served as Senior Consultant with the Wolf Research and Development Corporation, Riverdale, Md. From 1970 to 1972 he served as an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Automatic Control and Systems Engineering curricula with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Connecticut, Hartford, Corm. Since October 1972, Dr. Tabak is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is the coauthor of Optimal Control by Mathematical Programming (Prentice Hall, 1971) and has published numerous papers in this area. Dr. Tabak is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ORSA, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. Since 1972, Dr. Tabak has been an Associate Editor of Automatica.
Tapan S. Roy is with the Travelers Insurance Companies as Associate Director of Corporate Research. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Connecticut, School of Business. He received an MS. in statistics from the University of Bombay, India, an M.I.A. in industrial administration and an M.A. in operations research from Yale University. His interests are in applied statistics and corporate modelling of business problems and he has been responsible for establishing several such systems during his career. He has also consulted with the Federal Govemment on insurance programs. He is presently VicePresident of the Connecticut Chapter of the Operations Research Society and is an active member of TIMS, ORSA, ARIA, ASA and AIDS.
Biographical notes John W. Csron is an Assistant Director of Research at Travelers Insurance Company, where he has been involved in forecasting time series and modelling social systems. His previous employment was with the National Security Agency where he was primarily involved in modelling physical systems. Mr. Caron has a Master’s degree in management science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. His undergraduate work in electrical engineering was completed at Lowell Technological Institute.
Daniel Grape was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and received ^ his academic training at the ” Technion. Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel : (B.S.M.E., 1958; B.S.E.E., 1959; 1 Dipl. Ing., 1960) and at the i University of Liveroool. Ennland (P6.D., 1963): Hi w& Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department of the i University of Liverpool from 1963 to 1967 and Senior Lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology. -_ . Haifa. from 1967 to 1970. In 1971 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, as Associate Professor, and in 1974 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering in that university. Dr. Graupe has served as consultant in control engineering, bioenginecring, timeseries analysis and data processing to several companies and hospitals. He is author of Idenfification of Systems (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972) and of some 60 journal and conference papers, and serves as reviewer to the IEEE
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Uri Skaked was born in Israel on 15 June 1943. He received the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics in 1964 and the M.S. decree in ohvsics. with distinctionyin 196b. -both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 1975. From 1966 to 1970 he was with the Israel defence forces. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Engineering Department Control Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
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Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, the
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) journal Automatica, and to several scientific conferences and federal agencies. Dr. Graupe is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, IEEE and Sigma Xi. He is also a member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society on Adaptive and Learning Systems and Pattern Recognition.
Ell Fogel was born in Haifa, Israel, on 27 February 1948. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1973, and his M.S. degree in elect&l engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1975, where he is currently a doctoral candidate. His fields of interest are system theory, stochastic processes, identification and control.
For Isaac M. Horowitz’s photograph and biographical note see Automatica 10, 381-392 (1974).
Naum Samoilovich Rajbman was born in the Medzhibozh, Ukraine, on 4 February 1921. In 1943 he graduated from the Moscow Machine Tool Institute. He received a Cand. Sci. (Eng.) dearee in 1949. a Dr. Sci. iEng.j degree in 1965 and has been a professor since 1967. Professor N. S. Rajbman is head of a research laboratory in the Institute of Control Sciences and is a member of the Institute’s Scientific Council. Since 1969 he has also been head of the School of Control Engineering of the Moscow People’s Technology and Economy University. He has served as a member of the International Program Committees of all Symposia on Identification and Parameter Estimation sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Professor N. S. Rajbman has been working on dispersion methods of random functions in estimating the nonlinearity, model adequacy and identification of nonlinear plants. He shared in the development of new approaches in control of processes with an identifier in the feedback loop. These methods have been applied in a number of industries. The results of his research are reported in over 100 papers. His books include Statistical Methods of Quality Analysis and Control (1950-2). of which he was the sole author; Precision Calculations in Manufacture of Calculating Equipment (1961), What Is Identification? (1970) and Adaptive Control of Tube Rolling Accuracy (1973) which he coauthored.
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Mad130M. Guptn is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, and a member of the Division of Control Engineering, and the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He directs research in the Systems and Adaptive Control Research Laboratory in the area of systems and adaptive control, large-scale systems, signal processing as applied to information processing of some physiological data (cardiac signals) and mechanical vibrations. Dr. Gupta was born at Lansdowne, India, and received his education at BITS Pilani, India [B.E. (Honours), 1961, and M.E., 1962, both in electrical communication engineering], and at the University of Warwick, U.K. (Ph.D. in systems engineering, 1967). He was a Commonwealth Fellow in the U.K. at the Queen’s University of Belfast (1964-5) and then at the University of Warwick (1965-7). He has been with the University of Saskatchewan since 1967. He had appointments of visiting Professor at the AECL, Whiteshell, Pinawa, IIT, Delhi, the Defence Research Establishment. Suffield, and at McMaster University during the summers of 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974 respectively. He has over 50 publications. Dr. Gupta is a member of the IEEE, a member of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, together with membership in the various IEEE societies and groups, viz. Control Systems; Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Engineering in Medicine and Biology; Audio and Electroacoustics, and Computing. Dr. Gupta was the organizer of the special interest session on Fuzzy Automata and Decision Processes at the IFAC-Hague Symposium (June 1973). and at the Sixth Triennial IFAC World Congress-Boston (August 1975). Since July 1975 he has been on sabbatical leave as a visiting Professor with the University of British Columbia, and an NRC Senior Industrial Research Fellow with MacMillan Bloedel Research Ltd., Vancouver, where he is involved in econometric modelling and forecasting of industrial processes in a fuzzy environment.
P. N. Nikiforuk received his B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, in 1952. He then received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Manchester University in 1955. During the period 1952-9 he worked in the defence industry. He worked for A. V. Roe in Toronto, the Defence Research Board in Quebec City and Canadair Ltd. in Montreal and California. He has been with the University since 1960 when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He served as Chairman of the Division of Control Engineering from 1964 to 1969, Head of Mechanical Engineering from 1966 to 1973, and Dean of Engineering since 1973. His research interests are adaptive control systems and hydraulic control systems. He has published more than 75 papers and was awarded the D.Sc. degree in 1970 by Manchester University for his research on control systems. He is a member of Canada’s National Research Council, and a fellow or member of a number of professional societies. Fyodor A. Mikhailov was born 4 July 1921 in Moscow, U.S.S.R. He was educated at the Moscow S. Ordjonikidze Institute of Aircraft Engineering receiving a degree in aircraft engineering. In 1948 he earned an Ena.D. of lower degree and in 1562 an Eng.D. of higher degree (in automatic control engineering). He has been teaching at Moscow Bauman Engineering High School and at the S. Ordjonikidze Institute since 1950 (having been a Professor since 1963). His current research interests include: optimal control under uncertainty, stability problems, and theory of linear time-varying systems. Presently he is with the Automatic Control Department of the S. Ordjonikidze Institute.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue Clam G. ILHllstrth was born in SMvesborg, Sweden, in 1945. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjiir) in electrical engineering in 1970 from the Lund Institute of Technology. -_ Lund. Sweden. He is currently em: ployed as a research engineer at the Department of Automatic Control at the Lund Institute of He is mainly Technology. interested in system identification and autopilot design for large tankers.
UIf BorIsson was born in Urn&, Sweden, on 19 December 1945. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjor) in applied physics from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden, in 1968. In 1968 he was employed as a teaching assistant at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund. In 1972-3 he worked on adaptive control of paper machines in a joint project with the company Billerud AB, Sweden, and the Lund Institute of Technology. He is currently a research engineer at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund. His main research interests are in the field of adaptive control and identification.
GemId L. Park was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February 1933. In 1955, he received the B.M.E. degree from the University of Minnesota, in 1958 the M.S. in engineering science from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He was assigned to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1955 to Instructor at the University of Minnesota in 1958. Since 1964 he has been at Michigan State University where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science teaching systems design and simulation courses and directing research and writing on control, estimation and simulation problems in power systems and on wind-energy systems. Dr. Park is a Registered Professional Engineers in Michigan and is a member of Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and CIGRE and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Rolf Syding was born in
MalmB, Sweden, on 8 May 1944. He received his M.S. degree (Civilingenjor) in technical-physics in 1967 from the Lund Institute of Technology. He served as an assistant teacher at the Division of Automatic Control from 1967 to 1969,when he was employed by the LKAB Mininn Comaanv as / systems engineer.-He id mainly interested in systems and control applications to benefication and in the mining industry.
K. J. ktrthu was
born in 1934. He received his Civ. Ing. degree in technical physics in 1951 and the Tekn. Lit. degree in automatic control and mathematics in 1960 both from the Royal / Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1955 to 1960 he held various teaching positions at the KTH. During 1957-60 he also worked on inertial guidance for the Research Institute of National Defence, Stockholm. In 1961 he joined the IBM Nordic Laboratory to work on theory and applications of process control. He worked with optimal and stochastic control theory as a visiting scientist at IBM Research, San Jose, California, in 1962-3. Since 1965 he has been Professor of the Chair of Automatic Control at the Lund Institute of Technology/ University of Lund. During the academic year 1969-70 he was visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Providence, RI. He has had published two books, Reglerteori (in Swedish), and Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, and 30 papers on optimal control, stochastic control, identification, adaptive control and applications of control theory.
Robert A. Schlpeta was
born in Buffalo, N.Y., on 11 May 1942. He received his B.E.E. and M.E.E. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklvn in 1964. 1967 and 1972, respectively. He has worked on automatic control systems for Grumman Aircraft and Sperry Gyroscope. Since 1971 he has been at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science. His current research interests are in estimation, identification and control and its application. He has conducted research and directed research projects on application of this theory to power, industrial and communication systems. Dr. Schlueter is a member of the IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu. 107
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Anil V. Phatak was born in Baroda, India, on 7 August 1939. He received his B.E. degree from the University of Baroda. Baroda, India, in 1960, the M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California, in 1968. all in electrical engineering. After completing his Master’s degree in 1961, he joined the staff of Systems Technology, Inc., Hawthorne, California, where he worked until 1967 in the areas of human operator modelling and manual control systems. From 1968 to 1969, he was a Research Associate with the Man-Vehicle Laboratory of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was on the Faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, from 1969 to 1971, where he was atfiliated with the Controls and Biomedical Engineering Programs. He has been with Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, since 1971 and is currently the Manager of the Man-Machine Systems Division of the Aeronautical and Marine Systems Sector. His interests lie in the areas of control systems, system identifitition and physiological systems.
Howard W&test was born in Philadelphia on 29 May 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. in electrical engineering in 1967, and from Stanford University with an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1968 and 1972, respectively. From 1968 to 1970 he was employed at GTE Sylvania where he was engaged in modelling laser propagation through the atmosphere. From 1972 to 1974 he was employed at Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, where he conducted basic research in system identification. Since 1974, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University. Howard Weinert is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and IEEE. His research interests are in the areas of statistical communication theory, approximation theory and systems theory.
Ilana segnil received her B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1968. Until 1971 she held the position of research engineer at the Scientific Department of the Israeli Ministry of Defence working on large-scale simulations of airborne systems. From 1971 to 1974 she was with Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, California, where she worked as programmer/analyst on a variety of identification problems. She is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.
Carroll N. Day was born m Grand Forks, North Dakota, on 20 March 1937. He received his B.S.E.E.in1959andhisM.S.E.E. in 1961 from the University of North Dakota and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1967 from Ohio State University. Since February 1973, he has been the Chief of the Systems Technology Branch, Environmental Medicine Division, Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In his position as Branch Chief, he is responsible for conducting research in identification theory and human operator descriptions and serves as a consultant in human operator identification, manned weapon systems evaluation and simulation. His special interests include statistical communication theory, identification and estimation theory, and man-machine systems.
Daniel Tabak was born in Poland in 1934. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1959 and the M.S. degree in nuclear science in 1963, both from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technoloav. __, Haifa. Israel. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., in 1967. From 1966 to 1968 he was employed as a guidance and control systems engineer with the General Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pa. During this time he also taught graduate evening courses in automatic control at the extension of the Pennsylvania State University, King of Prussia, Pa. From 1968 to 1970 he served as Senior Consultant with the Wolf Research and Development Corporation, Riverdale, Md. From 1970 to 1972 he served as an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Automatic Control and Systems Engineering curricula with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Connecticut, Hartford, Corm. Since October 1972, Dr. Tabak is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is the coauthor of Optimal Control by Mathematical Programming (Prentice Hall, 1971) and has published numerous papers in this area. Dr. Tabak is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ORSA, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. Since 1972, Dr. Tabak has been an Associate Editor of Automatica.
Tapan S. Roy is with the Travelers Insurance Companies as Associate Director of Corporate Research. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Connecticut, School of Business. He received an MS. in statistics from the University of Bombay, India, an M.I.A. in industrial administration and an M.A. in operations research from Yale University. His interests are in applied statistics and corporate modelling of business problems and he has been responsible for establishing several such systems during his career. He has also consulted with the Federal Govemment on insurance programs. He is presently VicePresident of the Connecticut Chapter of the Operations Research Society and is an active member of TIMS, ORSA, ARIA, ASA and AIDS.
Biographical notes John W. Csron is an Assistant Director of Research at Travelers Insurance Company, where he has been involved in forecasting time series and modelling social systems. His previous employment was with the National Security Agency where he was primarily involved in modelling physical systems. Mr. Caron has a Master’s degree in management science from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University. His undergraduate work in electrical engineering was completed at Lowell Technological Institute.
Daniel Grape was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and received ^ his academic training at the ” Technion. Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel : (B.S.M.E., 1958; B.S.E.E., 1959; 1 Dipl. Ing., 1960) and at the i University of Liveroool. Ennland (P6.D., 1963): Hi w& Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department of the i University of Liverpool from 1963 to 1967 and Senior Lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology. -_ . Haifa. from 1967 to 1970. In 1971 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, as Associate Professor, and in 1974 he became Professor of Electrical Engineering in that university. Dr. Graupe has served as consultant in control engineering, bioenginecring, timeseries analysis and data processing to several companies and hospitals. He is author of Idenfification of Systems (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972) and of some 60 journal and conference papers, and serves as reviewer to the IEEE
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Uri Skaked was born in Israel on 15 June 1943. He received the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics in 1964 and the M.S. decree in ohvsics. with distinctionyin 196b. -both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and the Ph.D. degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 1975. From 1966 to 1970 he was with the Israel defence forces. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Engineering Department Control Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
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Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, the
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) journal Automatica, and to several scientific conferences and federal agencies. Dr. Graupe is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, IEEE and Sigma Xi. He is also a member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society on Adaptive and Learning Systems and Pattern Recognition.
Ell Fogel was born in Haifa, Israel, on 27 February 1948. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1973, and his M.S. degree in elect&l engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1975, where he is currently a doctoral candidate. His fields of interest are system theory, stochastic processes, identification and control.
For Isaac M. Horowitz’s photograph and biographical note see Automatica 10, 381-392 (1974).
Naum Samoilovich Rajbman was born in the Medzhibozh, Ukraine, on 4 February 1921. In 1943 he graduated from the Moscow Machine Tool Institute. He received a Cand. Sci. (Eng.) dearee in 1949. a Dr. Sci. iEng.j degree in 1965 and has been a professor since 1967. Professor N. S. Rajbman is head of a research laboratory in the Institute of Control Sciences and is a member of the Institute’s Scientific Council. Since 1969 he has also been head of the School of Control Engineering of the Moscow People’s Technology and Economy University. He has served as a member of the International Program Committees of all Symposia on Identification and Parameter Estimation sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). Professor N. S. Rajbman has been working on dispersion methods of random functions in estimating the nonlinearity, model adequacy and identification of nonlinear plants. He shared in the development of new approaches in control of processes with an identifier in the feedback loop. These methods have been applied in a number of industries. The results of his research are reported in over 100 papers. His books include Statistical Methods of Quality Analysis and Control (1950-2). of which he was the sole author; Precision Calculations in Manufacture of Calculating Equipment (1961), What Is Identification? (1970) and Adaptive Control of Tube Rolling Accuracy (1973) which he coauthored.
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Mad130M. Guptn is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, and a member of the Division of Control Engineering, and the Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. He directs research in the Systems and Adaptive Control Research Laboratory in the area of systems and adaptive control, large-scale systems, signal processing as applied to information processing of some physiological data (cardiac signals) and mechanical vibrations. Dr. Gupta was born at Lansdowne, India, and received his education at BITS Pilani, India [B.E. (Honours), 1961, and M.E., 1962, both in electrical communication engineering], and at the University of Warwick, U.K. (Ph.D. in systems engineering, 1967). He was a Commonwealth Fellow in the U.K. at the Queen’s University of Belfast (1964-5) and then at the University of Warwick (1965-7). He has been with the University of Saskatchewan since 1967. He had appointments of visiting Professor at the AECL, Whiteshell, Pinawa, IIT, Delhi, the Defence Research Establishment. Suffield, and at McMaster University during the summers of 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974 respectively. He has over 50 publications. Dr. Gupta is a member of the IEEE, a member of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, together with membership in the various IEEE societies and groups, viz. Control Systems; Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Engineering in Medicine and Biology; Audio and Electroacoustics, and Computing. Dr. Gupta was the organizer of the special interest session on Fuzzy Automata and Decision Processes at the IFAC-Hague Symposium (June 1973). and at the Sixth Triennial IFAC World Congress-Boston (August 1975). Since July 1975 he has been on sabbatical leave as a visiting Professor with the University of British Columbia, and an NRC Senior Industrial Research Fellow with MacMillan Bloedel Research Ltd., Vancouver, where he is involved in econometric modelling and forecasting of industrial processes in a fuzzy environment.
P. N. Nikiforuk received his B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, in 1952. He then received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Manchester University in 1955. During the period 1952-9 he worked in the defence industry. He worked for A. V. Roe in Toronto, the Defence Research Board in Quebec City and Canadair Ltd. in Montreal and California. He has been with the University since 1960 when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He served as Chairman of the Division of Control Engineering from 1964 to 1969, Head of Mechanical Engineering from 1966 to 1973, and Dean of Engineering since 1973. His research interests are adaptive control systems and hydraulic control systems. He has published more than 75 papers and was awarded the D.Sc. degree in 1970 by Manchester University for his research on control systems. He is a member of Canada’s National Research Council, and a fellow or member of a number of professional societies. Fyodor A. Mikhailov was born 4 July 1921 in Moscow, U.S.S.R. He was educated at the Moscow S. Ordjonikidze Institute of Aircraft Engineering receiving a degree in aircraft engineering. In 1948 he earned an Ena.D. of lower degree and in 1562 an Eng.D. of higher degree (in automatic control engineering). He has been teaching at Moscow Bauman Engineering High School and at the S. Ordjonikidze Institute since 1950 (having been a Professor since 1963). His current research interests include: optimal control under uncertainty, stability problems, and theory of linear time-varying systems. Presently he is with the Automatic Control Department of the S. Ordjonikidze Institute.