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Saeks, Richard Ephraim was born on November 30, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Morris G. and Elsie E. Saeks.
(If one takes the intuitive point of view that a system is...)
If one takes the intuitive point of view that a system is a black box whose inputs and outputs are time functions or time series it is natural to adopt an operator theoretic approach to the stUdy of such systems. Here the black box is modeled by an operator which maps an input time function into an output time function. Such an approach yields a unification of the continuous (time function) and discrete (time series) theories and simultaneously allows one to formulate a single theory which is valid for time-variable distributed and nonlinear systems. Surprisingly, however, the great potential for such an approach has only recently been realized. Early attempts to apply classical operator theory typically having failed when optimal controllers proved to be non-causal, feedback systems unstable or coupling networks non-lossless. Moreover, attempts to circumvent these difficulties by adding causality or stability constraints to the problems failed when it was realized that these time based concepts were undefined and; in fact, undefinable; in the Hilbert and Banach spaces of classical operator theory.
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Saeks, Richard Ephraim was born on November 30, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Morris G. and Elsie E. Saeks.
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University, 1964; Master of Science, Colorado State University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1967.
Elec. engineer, Warwick Manufacturing Company, Niles, Illinois, 1961-1963; assistant professor department electrical engineering, U. Notre Dame, 1967-1971; associate professor, U. Notre Dame, 1971-1973; associate professor departments electrical engineering, mathematics, Texas Tech U., Lubbock, 1973-1977; professor, Texas Tech U., 1977-1979; Paul Whitfield Horn professor electrical engineering, mathematics computer sci, Texas Tech U., 1979-1983; professor, chairman electrical engineering, Arizona State University, 1983-1988; dean Armour College Engineering, Illinois Institute Technology, 1988-1991; Motorola professor, Illinois Institute Technology, 1991-1992; vice president engineering, Accurate Automation Corporation, since 1992. Consultant Research Triangle Institute, 1978-1980, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1978-1980.
(If one takes the intuitive point of view that a system is...)
(Book by Palmer, James D., Saeks, Richard)
Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Systems Men and Cybernetics Society (president 1998-1999).