The IEEE Control Systems Society History Committee Original Author: Linda Bushnell ( bushnell@ee.washington.edu) Current Author: Danny Abramovitch ( ) Created: March 1998 ; Last Updated:

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Mission A Brief list of controls history resources

Video Taped Interviews Video Taped Lectures/Plenary Sessions/Events Planned Activities:

Past Activities: Members Related/Useful Web Sites

The Control Systems Society History Committee organizes special history sessions at the CDC and ACC conferences, conducts interviews of distinguished researchers in the controls area, plans events and publications to mark significant anniversaries, promotes the use of history in education, training and professional development, encourages donation of personal papers to appropriate archives, and is the Control System Society's contact to the IEEE History Center. We welcome new members and new ideas for future activities.

• Professor Karl Åström, Lund Universitet, December 1995
• Professor Charles Desoer, University of California at Berkeley, July 7, 1996 (by Gene Franklin and panel)
• Professor Howard Rosenbrock, March 27, 1998 (by Ted Davison)
• Professor Lotfi Zadeh, December 1998 (by Gene Franklin)
• Professor Michael Athans, December 1998 (by Gene Franklin)
• Professor Gene Franklin, May 10, 2000 (by Karl Åström)
• Professor Abraham Haddad, May 9, 2002 (by Danny Abramovitch)

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• 2000 American Controls Conference

  • Plenary Session: Bob Narendra (6/28/00)
  • Plenary Session: Edward Greitzer (6/29/00)
  • Plenary Session: Andy Teal (6/30/00)
  • Special Evening Session: (6/29/00)

• 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

  • Plenary Session Debate: Fuzzy versus Conventional Control (12/17/98) (Lotfi Zadeh and Michael Athans)
  • Plenary Session: Rudolf Kalman

• 1998 American Controls Conference

  • Bellman Award Presentation: Lotfi Zadeh
  • Plenary Session: Rudolf Kalman

To order video tapes of interviews, please contact the IEEE History Center

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• Special History session sometime ...
• Key ideas in the history of modern control project.

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• August 2005: Paper in IEEE Control Systems Magazine on the outrigger as a primitive feedback mechanism.
• June 2005: Special History Plenary Session at the ACC in honor of Boris Kogan.
• June 2005: Special issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine looking back at the past (historical articles, including one on the spyrule and an interview with Boris Kogan (inventor of the Soviet Union's first analog computer). The special issue is guest edited by HC member Kent Lundberg.
• June 2004: Special History Plenary Session at the ACC on the history of control in the Boston area.
• December 2004: Special issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine on the history of the IEEE CSS.
• June 2003: Special History Plenary Session at the ACC on the history of control.
• April 2002: Special issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine on the history of control. One paper published in the June 2002 issue.
• June 2001: Special evening session on the history of feedback with Otto Mayr.
• December 1994: special history session (Part I) at the CDC in Orlando. Speakers: Petar Kokotovic, Jan Willems, J. Boyd Pearson, Hidenori Kimura, Derek Atherton, George Leitmann, Kumpati Narendra, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan.
• December 1995: special history session (Part II) at the CDC in New Orleans. Speakers: Karl Astrom, Irwin Sandberg, Irena Lasiecka, Roger Brockett, Arthur Krener, Thomas Kailath.
• June 1996: special issue of the Control Systems Magazine on the history of control. Contributing authors: Stuart Bennett, Arthur E. Bryson, Jr., Derek P. Atherton, Karl J. Astrom, Anthony N. Michel, George Zames, Sanjoy K. Mitter, Stephen Kahne.
• December 1996: special history session on "Origin of the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control" at the CDC in Kobe, Japan. Speakers: Jan Willems, Hector Sussmann, John Doyle, Sergio Bittanti.
• December 1998: debate between Lotfi Zadeh and Michael Athans on "Fuzzy vs. Conventional Control" at the CDC in Tampa, FL. See the June 1999 issue of the Control Systems Magazine

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Dr. Daniel Abramovitch, Agilent Laboratories, Chairperson ()

Dr. Linda Bushnell, University of Washington ( bushnell@ee.washington.edu)

Dr. Stuart Bennett, Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield .

Dr. Dennis Bernstein, University of Michigan ( dsbaero@umich.edu)

Professor Peter Dorato, University of New Mexico

Professor Emeritus Gene Franklin, Stanford University

Professor Carroll D. Johnson, University of Alabama at Huntsville ( johnson@ece.uah.edu)

Professor Mark Nagurka, Marquette University ( mark.nagurka@marquette.edu )

Professor Ed Yaz, Chair, Marquette University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ( Edwin.Yaz@mu.edu)

Dr. Kent H. Lundberg, Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Kent's email address)

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A brief list of resources pertaining to the history of feedback and control are compiled on a separate page. We welcome any suggestions or additions to this list.

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