Contributed by: Prof. Claudio Bonivento DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy ________________________________________ COLLOQUIUM'96 on AUTOMATIC CONTROL ________________________________________ organized by The University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum Saecularia Nona __________________________ 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