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This issue of the IFAC Newsletter highlights recent organizational updates, including the establishment of new Technical Committee Working Groups and a new initiative on robotics education. It provides detailed event reports on international symposia covering safe real-time computing, large scale systems, power electronics, and adaptive control systems. Additionally, readers will find announcements regarding Austrian government scholarships, cross-federation collaborations with IFIP, upcoming conferences in Latin America, and a schedule of future events.

The issue contains:

IFAC Technical Committees Establish New Working Groups

  • What it covers: Provides an overview of the 22 active Technical Committee Working Groups within IFAC, detailing their newly established structures, leadership, and guidelines for how members can join.

SAFECOMP ’83

  • Author: J. A. Baylis
  • Date: 20th 22nd September 1983
  • What it covers: Summarizes the proceedings, key themes, and main conclusions of the Third International Workshop on Achieving Safe Real-Time Computing Systems held in Cambridge, U.K.

Third IFAC/IFORS Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications

  • Author: A. Straszak
  • Date: 11-15 June 1983
  • What it covers: Reports on the symposium held in Warsaw, Poland, highlighting the plenary presentations, technical session topics, and general focus on large scale systems theory.

3rd IFAC Symposium on Control in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives

  • Author: C. Yechouron
  • Date: September 12-14, 1983
  • What it covers: Details the technical sessions, survey papers, and broad thematic areas presented at the symposium hosted at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

EDCOM Working Group “Education of Robotics”

  • What it covers: Announces the establishment of a new working group on educational programs in robotics and requests global input for an upcoming university-level survey report.

Workshop on Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing

  • Author: I. D. Landau
  • Date: June 20 to 22, 1983
  • What it covers: Outlines the major discussion areas, technical sessions, and round table outcomes from the first IFAC workshop dedicated to adaptive systems, held in San Francisco.

Austrian Government Scholarship Program

  • What it covers: Describes scholarship opportunities for students from developing nations to pursue university studies or specialist training in Austria for the 1984/1985 academic year.

Welcome to the IFIP Newsletter

  • What it covers: Celebrates the launch of the first newsletter by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and highlights ongoing collaboration between IFAC and IFIP.

1st Latin American Conference on Automatic Control

  • What it covers: Details the announcement, objectives, and call for papers for the upcoming inaugural regional conference on automatic control taking place in Campina Grande, Brazil.

Who is Who in IFAC

  • What it covers: Features a biographical profile of Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Fred Margulies, highlighting his professional background, contributions to automation, and service as IFAC General Secretary.

Forthcoming Events

  • What it covers: Presents a comprehensive chronological calendar of upcoming IFAC symposia, workshops, and co-sponsored international conferences.

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