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My colleague Roger Brockett retired from Harvard faculty onMAY 16, 2012. This brought the history of control research at the Harvard Schoolof Engineering and Applied Sciences for the past half century to a close. I wasasked to say a few words at his retirement dinner. Since I was physically inChina, I used the technology of video chat to give my congratulatory remarkswith the above title remotely.  The period 1959-2012 is a remarkable time for many of us in systems and control.The website to download and/or watch this short video is

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/82540297/Larry_Ho.mp4

Note added 4/4/2013: The link above no longer works. But the link/instruction below works)

It is also available at the Tsinghua CFINS website under “activities”

You may or may not need the very useful FREE software“dropbox” which can be downloaded from dropbox.com if you

don’t already haveit.

I am also try to get this video mounting on my personalHarvard webpage  in the meantime. Let meknow if you have any problem watching this. Note added 6/17/2012. You can now also downlaod this video also from my own webpage: hrl.harvard.edu/~ho under the button video