Jens Glad Balchen: A Norwegian Pioneer in Engineering Cybernetics

This paper tells the story of Jens Glad Balchen (1926-2009), a Norwegian research scientist and engineer who is widely regarded as the father of Engineering Cybernetics in Norway. In 1954, he founded what would later become the Department of Automatic Control at the Norwegian Institute of Technology...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morten Breivik, Gunnar Sand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Society of Automatic Control 2009-07-01
Series:Modeling, Identification and Control
Subjects:
NFA
DP
Online Access:http://www.mic-journal.no/PDF/2009/MIC-2009-3-2.pdf