Plenary Lecture

The Convolution and Impulse Response Scandals

Professor Irwin W. Sandberg
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0803
Austin, Texas 78712 - 0240
USA

Abstract: To be announced

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Irwin W. Sandberg received the B.E.E., M.E.E., and D.E.E. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now the Polytechnic University) in 1955, 1956, and 1958, respectively (Westinghouse Fellow 1956, Bell Laboratories Fellow 1957 and 1958). He is presently an emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Emeritus in Engineering, No. 1. From 1958 to 1986, he was with Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a Member of Technical Staff in the Communication Sciences Research Division, and, from 1967 to 1972, as Head of the Systems Theory Research Department.
He has been concerned with the analysis of radar systems for military defense, with synthesis and analysis of linear networks, with several studies of qualitative properties of nonlinear systems (with emphasis on the theory of nonlinear networks as well as on the introduction and development of input-output stability theory), and with some problems in communication theory and numerical analysis. His more recent interests include studies of the approximation and signal-processing capabilities of dynamic nonlinear networks.
Dr. Sandberg received the first Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Centennial Medalist, an IEEE Millennial Medalist, a Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal recipient, a former Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer, an Outstanding Alumnus of Polytechnic University, a former Vice Chairman of the IEEE Group on Circuit Theory, a former Guest Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUIT THEORY Special Issue on Active and Digital Networks, and a former Guest Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS Darlington Memorial Issue. He has published extensively and has been an advisor to American Men and Women of Science.
He is listed in Who’s Who in America, and holds nine patents. He has received outstanding paper awards, an ISI Press Classic Paper Citation, and a Bell Laboratories Distinguished Staff Award. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, and the National Academy of Engineering.