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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in June 1966. In 1955, he was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. and assigned to N.A.S.A. (then N.A.C.A.), Langley Research Center, Va., where his duties and responsibilities involved the application of computers to aerospace problems, and the analysis of dynamic systems. In September 1965, he transferred from Langley Research Center to the Electronics Research Center, Cambridge, where he was involved in the design and analysis of control and information systems for future aircraft and spacedraft. In 1967 he joined Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, as Manager of the Control Systems Dept., where he leads and conducts research studies in modern control theory and its application to manual and automatic control systems. Dr. Baron is a member of the Association Internationale Pour le Calcul Analogique. David L. Kleinman (Member 1968) was born in New York, N.Y., on 4 January 1942. He received the B.E.E. degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, in 1962, and the S.M. degree in 1963 and the Ph.D. degree in 1967, both in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. The S.M. degree was obtained under a Sioan Foundation fellowship. From 1963 to 1967, he worked as a Research Assistant in the M.I.T. Electronic Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, where he studied problems in optimal control and stability theory. In February 1967, he joined the staffof Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. where he has been working on the application of optimization techniques to problems in manual control and man-machine systems. Dr. Kleinman is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi.
William H. Levison (Member 1959) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 21 March 1936. He received the S.B. degree, the S.M. degree, and Sc.D. degree, all in electrical engineering, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., in 1958, 1960, and 1964, respectively. From 1958 to 1964 he was with the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research concerned with the analysis of the cardiovascular system. He has been a Senior Scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Mass. since 1964, and is presently engaged in studies of manual control systems. Dr. Levison is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Sheldon Baron (Member 1968) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1934. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1955, the M.A. degree in physics from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.,
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L H. Nathan Yagoda was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 May 1936. He received a B.E.E. degree (magna cum laude) from the City College of New York in 1958, an M.E.E. degree from New York University in 1960, and a Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1963. Dr. Yagoda was employed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1958 to 1961 as a Member of the Technical Staff. In 1961 he joined the staff of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where at present he is an Associate Professor of System Engineering and Transporation Planning and the Administrative Officer of the Department of Operations Research and System Analysis. Professor Yagoda has worked on Transporation System Engineering problems for the last six years, and he is responsible for the Institute Graduate Program in System Engineering, which he heads. In addition, he has served as a consultant to various firms and is President of Computran Systems Corporation, a system engineering firm that specializes in digital computer control systems for transporation. Dr. Yagoda is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Operations Research Society of America, the American Society for Cybernetics and Institute of Traffic Engineers.
E. Bruce Lee was born in Brainerd, Minnesota on 1 February 1932. He obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota in 1954 and 1955 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1960. He was employed at Honeywell, Inc. in 1955 as an Evaluation Engineer developing new test equipment for inertial navigation systems. In 1956 he was transferred to the Research Department of Honeywell where he was initially involved in the development of digital inertial sensors, and subsequently in studies related to guidance and control of aerospace vehicles. In 1962 he was a visiting scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies, and in 1963 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota as an associate professor. He has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Control Science at Minnesota since 1965 and is currently Acting Head of the Department of Computer, Information, and Control Science. He is the author of several papers on the theory of control and co-author of the book "Foundations of Optimal Control Theory".
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Dong 1t. Chyung was born in Korea on 5 August 1937. He received B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Scoul, Korea in 1959 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1961 and 1965 respectively. From 1965 to 1966 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and from 1966 to 1968 at the University of South Carolina. He has been Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, since 1968.
Sergio de Julio was born in Naples, Italy, on 7 October 1939. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in the University of Naples in 1963. Sinco then, he has been Assistant in the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the University of Rome, Italy. During the years 1966 through 1968 he was a graduate student and a research assistant of the University of California at Los Angeles where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering. His main research interests are in the fields of System Theory and Optimization Theory. Dr. de Julio is a member of I.E.E.E. and of the Associazone Eletrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana.
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Mostafa A. Hassan was born in Cairo, Egypt on 23 July 1933. He received his B.Se. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1954, and Ph.D. degree from Toronto University, Canada, in 1963. From 1954-1956 he was a teaching assistant at Cairo University. In 1956 he joined the U.A.R. Atomic Energy Establishment. During the period 1964-1965 he was a senior research worker at the Electrotechnical Research Institute of Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., working on digital control of machine tools and industrial processes. Since 1966 he became head of the Control and Automation Laboratory at the U.A.R. Atomic Energy Establishment. He was on a leave at the Institute for Atomenergl, Norway, from 1968 till 1969. His fields of interest are applications of modern control theory to industrial process and electronic hardware for control implementation.
Kjell O. Solberg was born 23 April 1931, in Norway. In 1956 he graduated from the Dept. of Applied Physics. the Technological University of Trondheim, Norway. From 1956 to 1959 he was employed at the aircraft factory, SAAB, LinkOping, Sweden. Since 1959 he has been at the Institute for Atomic Energy, Norway, where he is now section head of Dynamics and Control. He has stayed one year, 1955-56, at the Centre D'Etudes Nucleaires, Grenoble, France. His fields of interest are development of dynamic models for industrial processes and application of modern control theory.
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James L. Farrell was born in Chicago, 111., on 12 October 1934. He received the B.E.E. degree from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1957. Completing a portion of the advanced study requirements in evening classes, he received the M.S. degree from the University of California graduate school at Los Angeles in January, 1961. From 1957 until February 1959 he was employed by Minneapolis-Honeywell, where he worked on the development of electronic autopilot subsystems and in Quality Control. He then went to Los Angeles with the BendixPacific Division in the Underwater Ordnance circuit design group. In September, 1960, he left Bendix to accept a teaching assistantship at the University of California. In January, 1961, he accepted a position in the analytical section of Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, Baltimore, Md. Since then he has been engaged in the analysis of advanced radar techniques, data processing, navigation, and satellite dynamics. Through evening classes he became a June graduate in the University of Maryland class of 1967 (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering). Dr. Farrell is a member of Triangle Fraternity, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Pi Mu Epsilon.
M a s a ~ o Aoki was born in Hiroshima City, Japan and obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He has a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles and degree of Kagaku-Hakase in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of IEEE, American Mathematical Society, SIAM, New York Academy of Science, Society of Control
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and Instrument Engineers, Japan, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon and Sigma Xi. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Automatic Control Group for 1970-72, and Chairman of Stochastic Systems Technical Committee of IEEE, for 1970-71. His industrial experience includes Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, and consulting experience with several industrial organizations including General Electric Company, Litton Industries, and IBM.
Chang Dae Han was born in Korea in 1935. He received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1958. Between 1958 and 1959 he served the Republic of Korean Army, and between 1959 and 1960 he worked for the Korean Power Company. He entered the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, from which he received M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in 1962 and 1964, respectively, both in Chemical Engineering. Since 1967, he has been Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Before joining the staff at Brooklyn Polytechnic, from 1964 to 1966 he was employed as process analyst at American Cyanamid Company and from 1966 to 1967 he was employed as systems engineer at Esso Research and Engineering Company. While he was in industry he continued his graduate study in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He received a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering in 1968, and he is also completing study for the advanced degree in Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His major areas of research are applications of control theory to chemical and petrochemical processes and mechanics of non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids. He has written over thirty technical papers, and he has consulted for industries.
Robert M. Staley was born in Whittier California on 16 August 1935. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1957, and the M.S. degree in Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1960 and 1968, respectively. From 1957 to 1962 he was employed at the Autonetics Division of North American Aviation Inc., as a research analyst in the Inertial Guidance Department. During that time he did error analysis studies on ballistic missile guidance systems, and worked on satellite tracking techniques and midcourse guidance systems. Since 1962 he has been a member of the technical staff of T R W Systems (formerly Space Technology Laboratories) in Redondo Beach California. In that capacity he has been involved in the development and evaluation of guidance software for ballistic missiles and space vehicles. In 1963 he was awarded an STL Cooperative Fellowship, which allowed him to pursue his academic career on a part time basis. He also served as a Postgraduate Research Engineer at U C L A from 1965 to 1968. Upon graduation in 1968 Dr. Staley returned to full time employment at T R W Systems, where he is currently working as Assistant Head of the Flight Software Section. Dr. Staley is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Edward J. Davison was born in Toronto, Canada on 12 September 1938. He received the A.R.C.T. degree in piano at the Royal Conservatory in 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. degree in Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge, England, in 1964. He was an Athlone Fellow while in England from 1961 to 1963.
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During the summer months he has worked for Avro Aircraft Co., Malton, Ontario, the Ontario Hydro Research Division, Toronto, the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 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, Department 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 in the study of large systems.
and the M.S. degree and the Degree of Engineer from Stanford University, Stanford, California in 1964 and 1968. He worked for Philco Corporation, Palo Alto, Calif. in 1965, and for Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif. from 1965 to 1968. He currently is a graduate student in the Department of Control Systems Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His main interests are applications of control theory to large complex systems. Mr. Keekler is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the Research Society of America, and the IEEE.
William G. Rae. After gaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bill Rae did three years post-graduate work on control systems for which he was awarded a Ph,D. He spent a post doctoral year at Wisconsin University where he used hybrid digital computers to study control systems for hydrofoil boats. After two years industrial experience in digital control, he joined CETA to spearhead the technical exploitation of new digital control techniques.
R. E. Larson (Member 1964) received the S.B. degree from
William G. Keckler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 September 1941. He received the B.E. in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. in 1963,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electronic Science and Engineering in 1960. He received the M.S. degree in 1961 and the Ph.D. degree in 1964, both in Electrical Engineering, from Stanford University. Dr. Larson's fields of specialization are computational aspects of dynamic programming and applications of optimal control and estimation theory. His prior experience includes employment with the IBM Corporation and the Hughes Aircraft Company. From 1964 to 1968 he was a member of the staff of the Information and Control Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. Since June, 1968, he has been with Wolf Management Services in Palo Alto, California. During this period he has directed projects for a number of clients, including the U.S. Army Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and several electric utilities. In July, 1969, he, along with fellow staff members, formed Systems Control, Inc. He is presently Vice President. Dr. Larson is the author of State Increment Dynamic Programming, which was published by American Elsevier Publishing Company in 1968. He has also published over fifty technical papers. His paper, "Dynamic Programming with Reduced Computational Requirements," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 1965, received the IEEE Group on Automatic Control Best Paper Award. He also received the 1968 Donald P. Eckman Award for outstanding achievement in the field of automatic control from the American Automatic Control Council. He recently received the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Citation for 1969 from Eta Kappa Nu. H e is Chairman of the Discrete Systems Committee of the IEEE, a member of A d - C o m of the IEEE Group on Automatic Control, and a member of the Joint Automatic Control Conference Program Committee.
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Robert M. Dressier received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1962 and 1966 respectively. While at Stanford he was on the Hughes Aircraft Company Masters and Doctoral Fellowship Programs. He has been with the Information and Control Group at Stanford Research Institute since 1965, where his work experience in cludes research on adaptive control systems, appliaction of optimal control and estimation theory to problems in missile defense systems, and high-precision tracking systems. Dr. Dressier is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Dale W. Ross received the B.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1965 and 1968 respectively at Stanford University. He has been with the Information and Control Group at Stanford Research Institute since early 1968. His current interests include the application of control theory and mathematical programming techniques to transportation systems and process control systems. Dr. Ross is a member of SIAM, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue in 1961, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in June 1966. In 1955, he was commissioned in the U.S.A.F. and assigned to N.A.S.A. (then N.A.C.A.), Langley Research Center, Va., where his duties and responsibilities involved the application of computers to aerospace problems, and the analysis of dynamic systems. In September 1965, he transferred from Langley Research Center to the Electronics Research Center, Cambridge, where he was involved in the design and analysis of control and information systems for future aircraft and spacedraft. In 1967 he joined Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, as Manager of the Control Systems Dept., where he leads and conducts research studies in modern control theory and its application to manual and automatic control systems. Dr. Baron is a member of the Association Internationale Pour le Calcul Analogique. David L. Kleinman (Member 1968) was born in New York, N.Y., on 4 January 1942. He received the B.E.E. degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, in 1962, and the S.M. degree in 1963 and the Ph.D. degree in 1967, both in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. The S.M. degree was obtained under a Sioan Foundation fellowship. From 1963 to 1967, he worked as a Research Assistant in the M.I.T. Electronic Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, where he studied problems in optimal control and stability theory. In February 1967, he joined the staffof Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. where he has been working on the application of optimization techniques to problems in manual control and man-machine systems. Dr. Kleinman is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi.
William H. Levison (Member 1959) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 21 March 1936. He received the S.B. degree, the S.M. degree, and Sc.D. degree, all in electrical engineering, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., in 1958, 1960, and 1964, respectively. From 1958 to 1964 he was with the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conducted research concerned with the analysis of the cardiovascular system. He has been a Senior Scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Mass. since 1964, and is presently engaged in studies of manual control systems. Dr. Levison is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Sheldon Baron (Member 1968) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1934. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1955, the M.A. degree in physics from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.,
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L H. Nathan Yagoda was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 May 1936. He received a B.E.E. degree (magna cum laude) from the City College of New York in 1958, an M.E.E. degree from New York University in 1960, and a Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1963. Dr. Yagoda was employed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1958 to 1961 as a Member of the Technical Staff. In 1961 he joined the staff of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where at present he is an Associate Professor of System Engineering and Transporation Planning and the Administrative Officer of the Department of Operations Research and System Analysis. Professor Yagoda has worked on Transporation System Engineering problems for the last six years, and he is responsible for the Institute Graduate Program in System Engineering, which he heads. In addition, he has served as a consultant to various firms and is President of Computran Systems Corporation, a system engineering firm that specializes in digital computer control systems for transporation. Dr. Yagoda is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Operations Research Society of America, the American Society for Cybernetics and Institute of Traffic Engineers.
E. Bruce Lee was born in Brainerd, Minnesota on 1 February 1932. He obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota in 1954 and 1955 respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1960. He was employed at Honeywell, Inc. in 1955 as an Evaluation Engineer developing new test equipment for inertial navigation systems. In 1956 he was transferred to the Research Department of Honeywell where he was initially involved in the development of digital inertial sensors, and subsequently in studies related to guidance and control of aerospace vehicles. In 1962 he was a visiting scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies, and in 1963 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Minnesota as an associate professor. He has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Control Science at Minnesota since 1965 and is currently Acting Head of the Department of Computer, Information, and Control Science. He is the author of several papers on the theory of control and co-author of the book "Foundations of Optimal Control Theory".
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Dong 1t. Chyung was born in Korea on 5 August 1937. He received B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Scoul, Korea in 1959 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1961 and 1965 respectively. From 1965 to 1966 he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and from 1966 to 1968 at the University of South Carolina. He has been Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, since 1968.
Sergio de Julio was born in Naples, Italy, on 7 October 1939. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in the University of Naples in 1963. Sinco then, he has been Assistant in the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the University of Rome, Italy. During the years 1966 through 1968 he was a graduate student and a research assistant of the University of California at Los Angeles where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering. His main research interests are in the fields of System Theory and Optimization Theory. Dr. de Julio is a member of I.E.E.E. and of the Associazone Eletrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana.
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Mostafa A. Hassan was born in Cairo, Egypt on 23 July 1933. He received his B.Se. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1954, and Ph.D. degree from Toronto University, Canada, in 1963. From 1954-1956 he was a teaching assistant at Cairo University. In 1956 he joined the U.A.R. Atomic Energy Establishment. During the period 1964-1965 he was a senior research worker at the Electrotechnical Research Institute of Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., working on digital control of machine tools and industrial processes. Since 1966 he became head of the Control and Automation Laboratory at the U.A.R. Atomic Energy Establishment. He was on a leave at the Institute for Atomenergl, Norway, from 1968 till 1969. His fields of interest are applications of modern control theory to industrial process and electronic hardware for control implementation.
Kjell O. Solberg was born 23 April 1931, in Norway. In 1956 he graduated from the Dept. of Applied Physics. the Technological University of Trondheim, Norway. From 1956 to 1959 he was employed at the aircraft factory, SAAB, LinkOping, Sweden. Since 1959 he has been at the Institute for Atomic Energy, Norway, where he is now section head of Dynamics and Control. He has stayed one year, 1955-56, at the Centre D'Etudes Nucleaires, Grenoble, France. His fields of interest are development of dynamic models for industrial processes and application of modern control theory.
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James L. Farrell was born in Chicago, 111., on 12 October 1934. He received the B.E.E. degree from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis., in 1957. Completing a portion of the advanced study requirements in evening classes, he received the M.S. degree from the University of California graduate school at Los Angeles in January, 1961. From 1957 until February 1959 he was employed by Minneapolis-Honeywell, where he worked on the development of electronic autopilot subsystems and in Quality Control. He then went to Los Angeles with the BendixPacific Division in the Underwater Ordnance circuit design group. In September, 1960, he left Bendix to accept a teaching assistantship at the University of California. In January, 1961, he accepted a position in the analytical section of Westinghouse Defense and Space Center, Baltimore, Md. Since then he has been engaged in the analysis of advanced radar techniques, data processing, navigation, and satellite dynamics. Through evening classes he became a June graduate in the University of Maryland class of 1967 (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering). Dr. Farrell is a member of Triangle Fraternity, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Pi Mu Epsilon.
M a s a ~ o Aoki was born in Hiroshima City, Japan and obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He has a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles and degree of Kagaku-Hakase in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of IEEE, American Mathematical Society, SIAM, New York Academy of Science, Society of Control
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and Instrument Engineers, Japan, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Epsilon and Sigma Xi. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Automatic Control Group for 1970-72, and Chairman of Stochastic Systems Technical Committee of IEEE, for 1970-71. His industrial experience includes Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, and consulting experience with several industrial organizations including General Electric Company, Litton Industries, and IBM.
Chang Dae Han was born in Korea in 1935. He received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1958. Between 1958 and 1959 he served the Republic of Korean Army, and between 1959 and 1960 he worked for the Korean Power Company. He entered the Graduate School of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961, from which he received M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in 1962 and 1964, respectively, both in Chemical Engineering. Since 1967, he has been Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Before joining the staff at Brooklyn Polytechnic, from 1964 to 1966 he was employed as process analyst at American Cyanamid Company and from 1966 to 1967 he was employed as systems engineer at Esso Research and Engineering Company. While he was in industry he continued his graduate study in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He received a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering in 1968, and he is also completing study for the advanced degree in Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. His major areas of research are applications of control theory to chemical and petrochemical processes and mechanics of non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids. He has written over thirty technical papers, and he has consulted for industries.
Robert M. Staley was born in Whittier California on 16 August 1935. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1957, and the M.S. degree in Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1960 and 1968, respectively. From 1957 to 1962 he was employed at the Autonetics Division of North American Aviation Inc., as a research analyst in the Inertial Guidance Department. During that time he did error analysis studies on ballistic missile guidance systems, and worked on satellite tracking techniques and midcourse guidance systems. Since 1962 he has been a member of the technical staff of T R W Systems (formerly Space Technology Laboratories) in Redondo Beach California. In that capacity he has been involved in the development and evaluation of guidance software for ballistic missiles and space vehicles. In 1963 he was awarded an STL Cooperative Fellowship, which allowed him to pursue his academic career on a part time basis. He also served as a Postgraduate Research Engineer at U C L A from 1965 to 1968. Upon graduation in 1968 Dr. Staley returned to full time employment at T R W Systems, where he is currently working as Assistant Head of the Flight Software Section. Dr. Staley is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Edward J. Davison was born in Toronto, Canada on 12 September 1938. He received the A.R.C.T. degree in piano at the Royal Conservatory in 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. degree in Control Engineering at the University of Cambridge, England, in 1964. He was an Athlone Fellow while in England from 1961 to 1963.
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During the summer months he has worked for Avro Aircraft Co., Malton, Ontario, the Ontario Hydro Research Division, Toronto, the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 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, Department 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 in the study of large systems.
and the M.S. degree and the Degree of Engineer from Stanford University, Stanford, California in 1964 and 1968. He worked for Philco Corporation, Palo Alto, Calif. in 1965, and for Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif. from 1965 to 1968. He currently is a graduate student in the Department of Control Systems Science and Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. His main interests are applications of control theory to large complex systems. Mr. Keekler is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, the Research Society of America, and the IEEE.
William G. Rae. After gaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bill Rae did three years post-graduate work on control systems for which he was awarded a Ph,D. He spent a post doctoral year at Wisconsin University where he used hybrid digital computers to study control systems for hydrofoil boats. After two years industrial experience in digital control, he joined CETA to spearhead the technical exploitation of new digital control techniques.
R. E. Larson (Member 1964) received the S.B. degree from
William G. Keckler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 September 1941. He received the B.E. in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Conn. in 1963,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electronic Science and Engineering in 1960. He received the M.S. degree in 1961 and the Ph.D. degree in 1964, both in Electrical Engineering, from Stanford University. Dr. Larson's fields of specialization are computational aspects of dynamic programming and applications of optimal control and estimation theory. His prior experience includes employment with the IBM Corporation and the Hughes Aircraft Company. From 1964 to 1968 he was a member of the staff of the Information and Control Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California. Since June, 1968, he has been with Wolf Management Services in Palo Alto, California. During this period he has directed projects for a number of clients, including the U.S. Army Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency, NASA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and several electric utilities. In July, 1969, he, along with fellow staff members, formed Systems Control, Inc. He is presently Vice President. Dr. Larson is the author of State Increment Dynamic Programming, which was published by American Elsevier Publishing Company in 1968. He has also published over fifty technical papers. His paper, "Dynamic Programming with Reduced Computational Requirements," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 1965, received the IEEE Group on Automatic Control Best Paper Award. He also received the 1968 Donald P. Eckman Award for outstanding achievement in the field of automatic control from the American Automatic Control Council. He recently received the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Citation for 1969 from Eta Kappa Nu. H e is Chairman of the Discrete Systems Committee of the IEEE, a member of A d - C o m of the IEEE Group on Automatic Control, and a member of the Joint Automatic Control Conference Program Committee.
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Robert M. Dressier received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1961, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1962 and 1966 respectively. While at Stanford he was on the Hughes Aircraft Company Masters and Doctoral Fellowship Programs. He has been with the Information and Control Group at Stanford Research Institute since 1965, where his work experience in cludes research on adaptive control systems, appliaction of optimal control and estimation theory to problems in missile defense systems, and high-precision tracking systems. Dr. Dressier is a member of IEEE, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Dale W. Ross received the B.E.E. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1964, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1965 and 1968 respectively at Stanford University. He has been with the Information and Control Group at Stanford Research Institute since early 1968. His current interests include the application of control theory and mathematical programming techniques to transportation systems and process control systems. Dr. Ross is a member of SIAM, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.