Gordon S. Brown

Gordon Stanley Brown was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automaticfeedback control systems and the numerical control of machine tools. From 1959 to 1968, he served as the dean of MITs engineering school. With his former student Donald P. Campbell, he wrote Principles of Servomechanisms in 1948, which is still a standard reference in the field.

Brown was born in 1907 in Australia. He graduated from the Workingmans College at the age ofwith diplomas in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. In 1929, Brown entered MIT as a junior, and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1931. Continuing his studies at the Institute, he earned a masters degree in 1934. Since 1931 Brown assisted Harold Hazen in constructing an electrooptical analog computer based on Norbert Wieners Cinema Integraph concept. In 1933 Browns servomechanisms were displayed at the Century of Progress World Fair. In 1938 Brown received his Ph.D. for the study and making of the practical Cinema Integraph, under tutelage of Hazen.

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