Rudolf Emil Kálmán was a Hungarian-American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control... Wikipedia
Born: May 19, 1930, Budapest, Hungary
Died: July 2, 2016 (age 86 years), Gainesville, FL
Education: Columbia University (1954–1957), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1954), and Óbuda University - NIK
Spouse: Constantina Stavrou (m. ?–2016)
Research interests: Control Theory
Doctoral advisor: John Ragazzini