Julio M. Ottino (NAE) is dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University, and Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P.

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Dr. Kevin M. Passino was my doctoral research adviser at the Ohio State University, where I did my PhD. As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in ...

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