20-th ANNIVERSARY OF EUCA

In 2011, the 11th European Control Conference (ECC) and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) were jointly held in Orlando (USA), December 12-15.

The IEEE CDC is an annual meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society. The ECC is organized under the auspices of the EUropean Control Association (EUCA).

The event of 2011 marked the 20th anniversary of the ECC series, since the first ECC was held in Grenoble in 1991, July 2-5. In the CDC series, the Orlando 2011 conference marked the 50th anniversary.

This picture was taken in Orlando during the joint CDC - ECC. It features all Presidents of the ECC's plus the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Control.

The ECC of 1999 was held in Karlsruhe, Germany, with P. M. Frank as President. Regretfully, Professor Frank passed away in 2005.