January 10, 2014
Emeritus Professor Bruce Francis has been named the recipient of the Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize for 2014. The prize is given annually by the IEEE Control Systems Society “to recognize distinguished contributions to control systems science or engineering.” Professor Francis was selected for his contributions to servomechanism control, H-infinity control and sampled-data control.
Professor Francis will deliver a plenary lecture at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in December 2014 in Los Angeles, Calif. on the subject of distributed robotics. The award will be presented at the Control Systems Society’s annual awards ceremony.
This prize is named after Hendrik Wade Bode, “a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications.” Bode was known for his research on control theory and mathematics, as well as his work on the design, guidance and control of anti-aircraft systems used in the Second World War and afterward. He spent much of his career at Bell Labs. Bode is well known among engineers today as the inventor of the Bode plot.
The Hendrik Bode Lecture Prize includes $2,000, a Galvanic plaque and travel expenses to the CDC. Recent past recipients include B. Ross Barmish, Jessy W. Grizzle and John Baillieul.
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Marit Mitchell
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The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
416-978-7997; marit.mitchell@utoronto.ca