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Rebuttal

Thomas F. Edgar

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“Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously”

Booth Tarkington (Princeton, 1889-91)

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BWB vs. TFE Email Exchange(Prehumous Celebration)

W: I guess you still need to edit my manuscript after all.

T: Yes, I correct everyone except for my wife.

W: I have found that any type of feedback to my wife results in an unstable system. This is difficult because she is open-loop unstable.

T: Positive FB leads to stability, but negative FB causes instability, so maybe your wife is uncontrollable.

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The Editing Process (SEM-2)(if they wrote news headlines)

Duncan: Deranged man escapes asylum,

kidnaps and molests woman, and drives across state lines.

Tom: Madman escapes, rapes woman, and flees state.

Dale: Nut screws and bolts.

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Taking a Nap Makes you Brainier

• According to University of California scientists, a lunchtime nap not only refreshes you, but can actually make you smarter.

• 39 students were given a tricky learning task at noon, and then some were sent off for forty winks. Later that day, they were all given a new set of tests. The students who had stayed awake did rather worse at these, the nappers were better at learning.

• Sleep is needed to clear the brain’s short-term memory storage and make room for new information.

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Department Chair Is the Captain of Three Ships

• Leadership

• Scholarship

• Bullship

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CPC-III Awards (1986)Pacific Grove, CA (Asilomar)

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1. Sea Hare Award

Manfred Morari for IMC

 

For propagation of a given idea, species, or papers on a selected subject.

 

“Each sea hare is both male and female, but they still have to mate. Dozens pile up for sea hare orgies. They mate in lines and circles; each is male to the one in front and female to the one behind”

(Monterrey Aquarium)

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2. Advanced Ad Hoc Control Strategy Award/Reuel Shinnar Optimum Sloppiness Award

Ed Bristol 

For proposing a new way to determine good data from bad data.

 

“You perturb the data and pass it through a P-I controller; if the results are unchanged, the data are okay”

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3. Otto-Tuning Award

Bob Otto

 

For having read at least half of all academic control papers since 1960 and retaining his sanity.

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4. Self-citation Award

Winner: Cole Brosilow: SCA = 6/7 = 0.86

Runner up: Morari-Doyle: SCA = 0/0 = ?

 

For the CPC Author who cites himself the most in the proceedings.

references Total

citationsself ofnumber TotalSCA

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5. Extended Horizon Award

Guy Dumont

 

For emphasizing a 6-month commissioning period on an adaptive controller.

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6. Wham Bam – Thank you Ma’am Award

Roger Sargent

 

For proposing a 10-minute commissioning period for adaptive controllers.

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7. Dr. Ruth Westheimer Award

Tom McAvoy on the RGA

 

For presenting everything you ever wanted to know about a subject (plus some things you didn’t want to know).

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8. Let’s Get The Operator Back Into The Control Loop Award/LongestShortcut Award

Yaman Arkun

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9. Beware of Greeks Seeking Industrial Gifts Award

Christos Georgakis

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CPC-IV Awards (1991)Padre Island, TX

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1. Preparation H∞ Award

Evangelos Zafiriou

 

To the inventor of a new control algorithm that provides smooth operation while satisfying hard constraints.

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2. CPC Honorary Proceedings Editor Award

Vasilios Manousiouthakis

 

For suggesting major revisions to at least six papers in the conference.

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3. Extended Horizon Award

MIT – Mark Kramer and George Stephanopoulos

 

For asking the longest questions at CPC (and sometimes providing long answers as well). No acceptance speech was permitted.

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4. Dynamic Maintenance Control Award

Sheraton Hotel Staff

 

For their rapid turnover of the meeting room after dinner.

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5. PLS/PCA Award

John MacGregor

 

For his excuses used in not submitting paper on time (PLS = Paper Lost in Shipment, PCA = Paper Coming Along).

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6. NSF Self Defense Kit

Maria Burka

 

A whip to keep university grant-seekers at bay.

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7. Last Predictive Control Acronym Award

Carlos Garcia

 

IDCOM

QDMC

UDMC

IMC

TCC (Hidden message in first letter of each acronym)

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CPC-V Awards (1996)Lake Tahoe, CA

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1. Extended Horizon Award (EHA)

Erik Ydstie

 

For waiting 10 years to finally publish his graduate student’s results (because nothing significant has happened in Adaptive Control since 1986, while he was funded).

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2. Fuzzy Free Lunch Award

Sebastian Engell

 For proposing that 0/100 rule where you can get 100% of the benefit for no effort through fuzzy logic.

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3. CPC Acronym Evolution Award

DMC

 

CPC III – Dynamic Matrix Control

CPC IV – Dynamic Maintenance Control

CPC V – Dog Maintenance Control

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4. CPC Pooper Scoop Award

George Birchfield

 (No one knows you’re a dog on the internet)

For suggesting that even a dog could control Shell’s Deer Park refinery (operator just feeds the dog).

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5. Non-interacting Co-author Award(Industrial Publish or Perish award)

Tunde Ogunnaike & Ray Wright

 

For publishing two papers at CPC (with the same title and subject).

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6. The Control Engineer Most Likely to Star in Jurassic Park II

Tom Badgwell

 

For presenting a new survival of the fittest theory for MPC (at the end of the Shinskeyzoic era).

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CPC-6 Awards (2001)Tucson, AZ

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1. A.B.C. Award

 Frank Allgower

For managing the speaker who was most observable but least controllable.

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2. CPC Birth Control Award

Wayne Bequette

 

Who was overheard saying: “Two children are all I plan to have, you could say that is a hard (or soft) constraint”.

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3. Budding Young Comedian Award

Mike Henson

 

For describing how cell buds can lead to alcohol products (This Bud’s for You!).

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4. Bounded Input, Unbounded Output Award

Eduardo Sonntag

 

For his 15 minute answer to a 10 second question.

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5. “Oh Say Can’t you Sing” Award

Jim Rawlings

 

For his mournful rendition of “Oh Canada” (maybe he should have used a different “Octave”).

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CPC-7 Awards (2006)Lake Louise, Alberta

Canada

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1. You Need to Do Substitute Teaching in ChE Award

John Congalidis

For suggesting that 22 year old engineers will be better than experienced engineers in operating future plants.

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2. True Confessions Award

Joe Alford

For admitting that he did not attend CPCs after the first one because he was intimidated by the Kalman Filter.

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3. The Presenter Most Likely to Get His Slides Up to Ramming Speed

Yannis Kevrekidis

For giving a talk with 489 slides.

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4. Screw My Co-authors, I Wrote the Paper Award

Richard Braatz

For leaving off his two senior co-authors (Seebauer and Alkire) on his title slide.

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5. The Principal Minor Award

Martha Gallivan

CPC-7 participant most likely to be carded.

Least Likely: Edgar and Seborg.

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6. Hoosier “Homer” Award

Rex Reklaitis

As Dorothy in Wizard of Oz said, “there is no place like home, especially when it comes to selecting session speakers (4/5 from Indiana, 3 from his department).

In contrast, only one Canadian speaker at Lake Louise, Canada CPC-7.

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7. The Reactive Scheduling Award

To the speakers in Information and Enterprise Systems Sessions

For canceling the panel discussion to go to the airport.

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8. CPC-7 Jet Lag Award

Venkat Venkatasubramanian

runner up – Frank Allgower

For not reading Frank Doyle’s paper on circadian rhythms and their effect on sleep patterns after coming to Lake Louise.

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9. The Don’t Mess with Texas Award

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

For suggesting he had a dream to produce midwestern ethanol from corn and make Texas irrelevant, through improved kinetics and massive government subsidies (then splitting for Switzerland).

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10. Hierarchical Control of Time Tracking of Presenter

Supervisory control, wantsto go on break

Likely asleep (or low gain)

Autonomous system

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11. Feedforward CSI Award

Wayne Bequette

For showing a slide of feedback control of drug infusion to an apparently dead patient (an undesirable steady-state).

Illustrates deadtime compensation?

Sensors Controller

Drugs Infused

Infusion pumps

Patient

Measured variables

MAP CO

SNP DPM

setpoints

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12. Dog Mushing & Control (DMC) Award

Tom Badgwell and Dean Kassman

For making 8 small dogs pull their lazy asses through heavy snow on Tuesday while other participants were skiing, skating, or hiking.

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