Abstract :
Diversity in the technical program characterized the sixth annual Joint Automatic Control Conference, held in June of this year on the campus of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This conference is jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Instrument Society of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the IEEE. It was founded to bring together, once each year, reports on the latest developments in automatic control theory, applications, and components. This year´s conference, conducted by ASME, attracted some 700 attendees from the five sponsoring societies.