President’s Corner

ALERT: The nomination deadline for the AACC awards is November 1, 2007.

In recent years we have not received a sufficient number of nominations for these awards, and we ask for your assistance with this important issue. Please contact your society colleagues, leadership, and society award committees and nominate a colleague today!

The 2007 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award goes to Sanjoy Mitter at MIT for contributions to the unification of communication and control, nonlinear filtering and its relationship to stochastic control; optimization; optimal control and infinite-dimensional systems theory.

2007 John Ragazzini Award goes to Manfred Morari at ETH Zurich for outstanding contributions in control education through monographs, software, the establishment of control programs and the mentoring of a large number of outstanding graduate students.

2007 Control Engineering Practice Award goes to Kevin Wise of Boeing for pioneering contributions in the use of optimal and robust adaptive control design methodologies for unmanned aircraft and advanced weapon systems.

The 2007 Donald P. Eckman Award goes to Daniel Liberzon at UIUC for contributions to the theories of switched systems and nonlinear control, and their application to control design under limited information.

We would like to thank Pramod Khargonekar, who has chaired the AACC Honors committee the past 3 years, for his outstanding service.

Scanning of ACC and JACC Proceedings

During 2006-2007, through the leadership of Marc Bodson, the AACC was able to complete the scanning of all past conference proceedings from the ACC and its predecessor the JACC. The scanning was done by contract to Parity Computing, and delivered to IEEE in February 2007. These will now be included in the IEEE Xplore program, and generate revenues for the AACC from the downloading of reprints.

The 2007 ACC

The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) will hold the 26th American Control Conference (ACC) Wednesday through Friday, July 11 to 13, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel at Times Square in New York City, USA. We look forward to seeing you there!

I thank you all for your participation in past and upcoming AACC events.

A. Galip Ulsoy
President, AACC 2006-2007