Roger W. Brockett

Infobox_Scientist
name = Roger W. Brockett

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caption =
birth_date = birth date and age|1938|10|22
birth_place = Seville, Ohio
death_date =
death_place =
residence = United States
nationality = American
field = Robotics Control theory
work_institution = Harvard University
alma_mater = Case Western Reserve University.
doctoral_advisor = Mihajlo D. Mesarovic

Roger Ware Brockett (October 22, 1938 Seville, Ohio) is an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983. [cite book | last = Baillieul | first = J. | title = Mathematical Control Theory | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | year = 1999 | isbn = 0387983171 ] [citation|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0519_030519_robots.html|title=Robots May Be Built as Companions, Expert Says|journal=National Geographic News|date=May 19, 2003|last=Roach|first=John.]

Biography

Brockett received his B.S. in 1960, his M.S. in 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1964 (under the supervision of Mihajlo D. Mesarovic), all from Case Western Reserve University.

After teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1969, he joined the faculty at Harvard University where he became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 1989 the An Wang Professor.

He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1989 the American Automatic Control Council honored him with the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, and in 1991 the IEEE gave him their Field award in Systems Science and Engineering. In 1996 he won the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Reid Prize in Mathematics, and in 2004 he won the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. [ [http://www.isr.umd.edu/People/faculty/Brockett.html Biography] at the University of Maryland.] [ [http://www.ifac2008.org/plenary_brockett.html Biography of Brockett] as a plenary speaker at IFAC 2008.]

Trivia

* Roger Brockett has an Erdős number of 3: Paul Erdös - Foong Frances Yao - David P. Dobkin - Roger Ware Brockett.

References

External links

* [http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~brockett/brockett.html Brockett's web page] at Harvard
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