List: Control theorists

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•  Claude Shannon

  Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electronic engineer and mathematician, is known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948.

  

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•  Kevin Warwick

  Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954 Coventry, UK) is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. He is best known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, although he has also done much research in the field of robotics.

  

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•  Norbert Wiener

  Norbert Wiener was an American pure and applied mathematician. A famous child prodigy, Wiener went on to become a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society.

  

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•  Aleksandr Lyapunov

  Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. His surname is sometimes romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov or Ljapunow. Lyapunov is known for his development of the stability theory of a dynamical system, as well as for his many contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.

  

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•  Andrey Kolmogorov

  Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Soviet Russian mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields.

  

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•  List of people in systems and control

  This is an alphabetical list of people who have made significant contributions in the fields of system analysis and control theory.

  

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•  Harry Nyquist

  Harry Nyquist (né Harry Theodor Nyqvist; pron. , not as often pronounced), (February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was an important contributor to information theory.

  

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•  Harold Stephen Black

  Harold Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927. To some, his invention is considered the most important breakthrough of the twentieth century in the field of electronics, since it has a wide area of application.

  

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•  Lotfi Asker Zadeh

  Lotfali Askar-Zadeh, better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, is a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

  

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•  William Ross Ashby

  W. Ross Ashby (London, 6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems. His first name was not used: he was known as Ross Ashby. His two books, Design for a brain and An introduction to cybernetics, were landmark works. They introduced exact, logical, thinking to the nascent discipline, and were highly influential.

  

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•  Rudolf E. Kalman

  Rudolf Emil Kalman, born on May 19, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, is a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematical system theorist, and college professor, who was educated in the United States, and has done most of his work there. He is currently a retired professor from three different institutes of technology and universities.

  

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•  John Tukey

  John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American statistician.

  

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•  Charles Stark Draper

  Charles Stark Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation. " He was the founder and director of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which under his direction designed and built the Apollo Guidance Computer for NASA, which made the Apollo moon landings possible.

  

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•  Lev Pontryagin

  Lev Semenovich Pontryagin (3 September 1908 – 3 May 1988) was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow and lost his eyesight in a primus stove explosion when he was 14. Despite his blindness he was able to become a mathematician due to the help of his mother Tatyana Andreevna who read mathematical books and papers to him. He made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including the geometric parts of topology.

  

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•  Richard E. Bellman

  Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an applied mathematician, celebrated for his invention of dynamic programming in 1953, and important contributions in other fields of mathematics.

  

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•  Antonio Ruberti

  Antonio Ruberti (January 24, 1927 – September 4, 2000) was an Italian politician and engineer. He was a member of the Italian Government and a European Commissioner as well as a Professor of engineering at La Sapienza University.

  

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•  Thomas Kailath

  Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935 in Pune, India) is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known book Linear Systems, which ranks as one of the most referenced books in the field of linear systems. Kailath is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

  

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•  Edward Routh

  Edward John Routh FRS (20 January 1831–7 June 1907), was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory.

  

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•  Nikolay Bogolyubov

  Nikolay Nikolaevich Bogolyubov was a Russian and Ukrainian Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and to the theory of dynamical systems; a recipient of the Dirac Prize (1992).

  

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•  Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov

  Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics.

  

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•  Steve Ciarcia

  Steve Ciarcia is an embedded control systems engineer. He became popular through his Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar column in BYTE magazine, and later through the Circuit Cellar magazine that he published. He is also the author of "Build Your Own Z80 Computer" book, edited back in 1981 and "Take My Computer... Please!" book, published in 1978. In december 2009 Steve Ciarcia announced that for the American market a strategic cooperation would be entered between Elektor and his Circuit Cellar magazine

  

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•  Vasile M. Popov

  Vasile Mihai Popov (born 1928) is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist. He is well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, now known as Popov criterion.

  

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•  Hendrik Wade Bode

  Hendrik Wade Bode, (24 December 1905 – 21 June 1982) was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist, of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research. In addition, his research impacted many other engineering disciplines and laid the foundation for a diverse array of modern innovations such as computers, robots and mobile phones among others.

  

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•  Eliahu I. Jury

  Eliahu Ibraham Jury is an American engineer, born in Baghdad, Iraq. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science degree from Columbia University of New York in 1953. He was professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Miami. He developed the advanced Z-transform, used in digital control systems and signal processing.

  

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•  Petar V. Kokotovic

  Petar V. Kokotovic (born 1936) is a Serbian scientist, who is professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control.

  

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