CDC 1989:
Tampa, Florida, USA: 13-15 December 1989

"Communication Issues in Parallel Computation"

D. P. Bertsekas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Respect the Unstable"

G. Stein
Honeywell, Inc.

CDC 1988:
Austin, Texas, USA: 7-9 December 1988

"New Tools for Robustness Analysis"

B. R. Barmish
University of Wisconsin, Madison

"Future Directions in Control Theory: A Mathematical Perspective"

W. H. Fleming
Brown University

CDC 1987:
Los Angeles, California, USA: 9-11 December 1987

"Problems with Implementations of Classical Control Approaches - Reflections on Practical Experience with Prostheses, Robotic Hands, and Other Things that Move"

S. C. Jacobsen
University of Utah

"Paradigms and Puzzles in Modeling Dynamical Systems"

J. C. Willems
University of Groningen

CDC 1986:
Athens, Greece: 10-12 December 1986

"25 Years of CDC - Impact on Control"

J. B. Cruz, Jr.
University of California, Irvine

"Exact Controllability of Distributed Systems: An Introduction"

J. L. Lions
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales

CDC 1985:
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA: 11-13 December 1985

"The Human Impact of Automation"

Harley Shaiken
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"New Horizons in Control"

M. Vidyasagar
University of Waterloo, Canada

CDC 1984:
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: 12-14 December 1984

"Gambling and Optimal Investment Theory"

Thomas M. Cover
Stanford University

"Advanced Manufacturing Systems"

Arne P. Rasmussen
Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Center

CDC 1983:
San Antonio, Texas, USA: 14-16 December 1983

"Chaos and Randomness in Dynamical Systems"

Roger W. Brockett and Josip Loncaric
Harvard University

"Estimation and Control in the VLSI Era"

Thomas Kailath
Stanford University

CDC 1982:
Orlando, Florida, USA: 8-10 December 1982

"Computers and Control Theory - Trends Toward Distributed Intelligence"

Robert E. Larson
Systems Control, Inc. and President of IEEE

"Global Geometry: An Alternative Lifestyle for Systems Theorists"

Lawrence Markus
University of Minnesota

CDC 1981:
San Diego, California: 16-18 December 1981

"Some Solutions, Some Problems, and Some Questions"

Alan S. Willsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"When is a Simple Solution Simple"

Robert W. Lucky
Bell Laboratories

CDC 1980:
Albuquerque, New Mexico: 10-12 December 1980

"Progress, Productivity and People: A Perspective"

Lester A. Gerhardt
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Human Skill and Automation"

Howard H. Rosenbrock
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology