50th Anniversary Celebration

IFAC celebrated its 50th anniversary on 15 September 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany, the same city where it was conceived during the “Internationale Fachtagung Regelungstechnik” in 1956. This prestigious event included presentations on the past, but with particular emphasis on the present and the future of automatic control in general, both from the theoretical and the application‘s side as well as focusing on emerging areas. These lectures can be downloaded below.

1. “Opening Address” by Rolf Isermann (IPC-Chair, Germany)
2. “IFAC and its People” by Stephen Kahne (Embry-Riddle University, Prescott, United States of America)
3. “Present Developments in Control Theory” by Brian D. O. Anderson (The Australian National University, Australia)
4. “Present developments in control applications” by Karl Johan Åström (Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden)
5. “Industrial automation: situation and trends” by Peter Terwiesch (ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd., Switzerland) 

(Please click here for the 50th Anniversary Event website.)

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