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About Arthur E. Bryson
- Arthur Earl Bryson Jr.
- (born October 7, 1925) is the Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father of modern optimal control theory".
- With Henry J.
- Kelley, he also pioneered an early version of the backpropagation procedure, now widely used for machine learning and artificial neural networks. He was a member of the U.S.
- Navy V-12 program at Iowa State College, and received his B.S.
- in aeronautical engineering there in 1946.
- He earned his Ph.D.
- from the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1951.
- His thesis An Interferometric Wind Tunnel Study of Transonic Flow past Wedge and Circular Arcs was advised by Hans W.
- Liepmann. Bryson was the Ph.D.
- advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho.
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