Arthur Earl Bryson Jr. (born October 7, 1925) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory". With

Henry J. Kelley Henry J. Kelley (1926-1988) was Christopher C. Kraft Professor of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He produced major contributions to control theory, especially in aeronautical engineering and flight optimizat ...

, he also pioneered an early version of the

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procedure,Arthur E. Bryson (1961, April). A gradient method for optimizing multi-stage allocation processes. In Proceedings of the Harvard Univ. Symposium on digital computers and their applications.

Stuart Dreyfus A native of Terre Haute, Indiana, Stuart E. Dreyfus is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. While at the Rand Corporation he was a programmer of the JOHNNIAC com ...

(1990). Artificial Neural Networks, Back Propagation and the Kelley-Bryson Gradient Procedure. J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 1990.

Jürgen Schmidhuber Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963) is a German computer scientist most noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning and artificial neural networks. He is a co-director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artifi ...

(2015). Deep learning in neural networks: An overview. Neural Networks 61 (2015): 85-117
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and artificial neural networks. He was a member of the U.S. Navy V-12 program at

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, and received his

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in aeronautical engineering there in 1946. He earned his

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from the

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, graduating in 1951. His thesis ''An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs'' was advised by Hans W. Liepmann. Bryson was the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist

Yu-Chi Ho Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho (; born March 1, 1934) is a Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. He is the co-author of ''Applied Optimal Control'', and an i ...

. In 1970, Bryson was elected a member of the

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for contributions to engineering education and imaginative application of modern statistical methods to engineering optimization.

Awards and honors

He was awarded membership into the

in 1970 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He was awarded the

IEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award The IEEE Control Systems Award is a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers#Technical field awards, technical field award given to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for outstanding contributio ...

in 1984, the

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given fo ...

in 1990 from the

American Automatic Control Council The American Automatic Control Council (AACC) is an organization founded in 1957 for research in control theory. AACC is a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is an association of the control systems divisions of ...

and the

Daniel Guggenheim Medal The Daniel Guggenheim Medal is an American engineering award, established by Daniel and Harry Guggenheim. The medal is considered to be one of the greatest honors that can be presented for a lifetime of work in aeronautics. Recipients have include ...

in 2009.

References

External links

Salute to Arthur E. Bryson Jr.
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