Acceptance Speech of Arthur J. Krener for the 2012 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award [People in Control

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In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM), this column ends with Arthur Krener's acceptance speech for the 2012 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award given in Montréal, Canada, in June 2012. He is a mathematician whose research interests are in developing methods for the control and estimation of nonlinear dynamical systems and stochastic processes. In 1971 he received the Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis (UCD). He retired from UCD in 2006 as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and he currently is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has also held visiting positions at Harvard University, Imperial College, NASA Ames Research Center, the University of Paris, the University of Maryland, the University of Padua, North Carolina State University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Honors and awards include Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Life Fellow of the IEEE, the W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics from SIAM, the IEEE Control System Society Bode Prize Lecture, and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council.