In the spirit of the documentary film “History of the World in 2 hours (from the Big Bang to the 21^st Century”) and the 2007 book “History of the World via 100 Objects (from the Stone age to the Modern world)”, The speaker proposes to deliver an account of this modern era of Systems and Control using his own anecdotal personal experiences living through this period from the Kalman Filter to the age of Automation and “Big Data”  illustrating the developments.

1. Kalman Filter

2. The Witsenhausen  Problem and Decentralized Control

3. Manufacturing Automation

4. Simulation and Modeling

演讲人简历: Prof. Yu-Chi Ho received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Except for three years of full time industrial work he has been on the Harvard faculty. Since 1969 he has been Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and AppliedMathematics. In 1988, he was appointed to the T. Jefferson Coolidge Chair in Applied Mathematics and Gordon McKay Professor of Systems Engineering at Harvard and as visiting professor to the Cockrell Family Regent’s Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2001, he retired from teaching duties at Harvard and became a Research Professor (2001-2006) and also was appointed to be a chair professor and chief scientist (part time), at the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems (CFINS), Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing China.