Contributed by: Prof. Claudio Bonivento
                DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy

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                        COLLOQUIUM'96 on AUTOMATIC CONTROL
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                                 organized by
                           The University of Bologna
                             Alma Mater Studiorum
                               Saecularia Nona
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                            Monday, 10 June, 1996
                      Aula Magna of the Engineering School
                         Via Risorgimento, 2 - Bologna
                                     Italy

On Monday June 10th, 1996 in the Aula Magna of the Engineering School the
University of Bologna organizes the Colloquium'96 on Automatic Control in
occasion of the 50 years since the pioneering starting of the research
activity in the area of Systems and Control. Some recent key developments
of this discipline both as science and technology will be presented by few
well-known researchers, and in particular

Prof. Karl Johan Astrom
Head of the Department of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
IEEE Medal of Honor

will give the general lecture on "The Development of Automatic Control".

The complete technical programme of the day is available on Internet at
http://www-lar.deis.unibo.it/. All interested people from academia and
industry are kindly invited to participate in the event.

                                  The Rector
                             Fabio Roversi Monaco

         The Dean                                          The Coordinator
    Arrigo Pareschi                                       Claudio Bonivento


Proceedings of the Colloquium:

The book "Colloquium'96 on Automatic Control"
(Eds. C. Bonivento e G. Marro), Springer-Verlag, LNCIS series, 1996,
is being published.

Participation to the Colloquium:
The attendance is free of charge. The participants are kindly requested to
send in advance a proper message to the Secretariat of the Colloquium along
with any requirement about local arrangements.

Colloquium Secretariat:
Participation messages and general inquiries should be sent to:

Mrs Rita Mambelli
DEIS, University of Bologna
Via Risorgimento, 2
40136 - Bologna, Italy
Phone:  +39-51-644.3006
Fax :  +39-51- 644.3073