Rudolf E. Kálmán
Rudolf Emil Kálmán was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is 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.
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- 🏆 IEEE Medal of Honor🏆 National Medal of Science🏆 Leroy P. Steele Prize🏆 Charles Stark Draper Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John R. Ragazzini
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Pierre Faurre📖 Eduardo D. Sontag
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1930
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