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----------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Richalet receives the Nordic Process Control Award ----------------------------------------------------------- The Nordic Process Control Award is awarded for lasting and significant contributions to the field of process control. The ninth recipient of this award is Dr. Jacques Richalet from France who is widely regarded as the "grandfather" of model predictive control. The award was presented to Dr. Richalet on August 23, 2007 during the 14th Nordic Process Control Workshop held in Espoo, Finland. The title of his inspiring award lecture was "Origin and industrial application of predictive control". His first industrial application of model predictive control was in 1973. He mentioned that it took 3 years to get his classic paper on MPC published, and when it was it was finally published in Automatica in 1978, this was apparently against the advice of the majority of the reviewers. The previous recipients of this award are Howard H. Rosenbrock (1995), Karl Johan Astrom (1997), F. Greg Shinskey (1998), Jens G. Balchen (2000), Charles Cutler (2001), Roger Sargent (2003), Ernst Gilles (2004) and Manfred Morari (2006). The award is awarded by the Nordic Working Group on Process Control. For more information about the award lecture and the working group see: www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/npc.html Contributed by: Sigurd Skogestad, Norway