Rudolf E. Kálmán
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| Born | Rudolf Emil Kálmán May 19, 1930 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | July 2, 2016 (aged 86) Gainesville, Florida |
| Nationality |
Hungarian-born American citizen |
| Fields |
Electrical Engineering; Mathematics; Applied Engineering Systems Theory |
| Institutions |
Stanford University; University of Florida; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; |
| Doctoral advisor | John Ragazzini |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Medal of Honor (1974) Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1976) Kyoto Prize (1985) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1997) National Medal of Science (2008) Charles Stark Draper Prize |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Rudolf (Rudi) Emil Kálmán (Hungarian: Kálmán Rudolf Emil; May 19, 1930 – July 2, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán the National Medal of Science on October 7, 2009.
Rudolf Kálmán was born in Budapest in 1930. After emigrating to the United States in 1943, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1953 and his master's degree in 1954, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in electrical engineering. Kálmán completed his doctorate in 1957 at Columbia University in New York City.
Kálmán worked as a Research Mathematician at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies in Baltimore, Maryland from 1958 until 1964. He was a professor at Stanford University from 1964 until 1971, and then a Graduate Research Professor and the Director of the Center for Mathematical System Theory, at the University of Florida from 1971 until 1992. He periodically returned to Fontainebleau from 1969 to 1972 at MINES ParisTech where he served as scientific advisor for Centre de recherches en automatique. Starting in 1973, he also held the chair of Mathematical System Theory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.
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