Arthur E. Bryson | |
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| Born | (1925-10-07)October 7, 1925 (age 100) |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Control theory |
| Thesis | An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study ofTransonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Wolfgang Liepmann[1] |
| Doctoral students | |
Arthur Earl Bryson Jr. (born October 7, 1925)[2] is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus atStanford University and the "father of modernoptimal control theory".[citation needed] WithHenry J. Kelley, he also pioneered an early version of thebackpropagation procedure,[3][4][5]now widely used formachine learning andartificial neural networks.
He was a member of the U.S. NavyV-12 program atIowa State College, and received hisB.S. in aeronautical engineering there in 1946.[6] He earned hisPh.D. from theCalifornia Institute of Technology, graduating in 1951. His thesisAn Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs was advised byHans W. Liepmann.
Bryson was the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theoristYu-Chi Ho.
In 1970, Bryson was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering for contributions to engineering education and imaginative application of modern statistical methods to engineering optimization.
He was awarded membership into theNational Academy of Engineering in 1970 and theNational Academy of Sciences in 1973. He was awarded theJohn R. Ragazzini Award in 1982 from theAmerican Automatic Control Council, theIEEE Control Systems Science and Engineering Award in 1984,[7][8] theRichard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1990 from theAmerican Automatic Control Council[9] and theDaniel Guggenheim Medal in 2009.
