M J GrimbleMichael Grimble was born in 1943 in Grimsby. He has a first class BSc honours degree in Electrical Engineering, the MSc (1971), PhD (1974) and DSc (1982) degrees in control engineering from the Univeristy of Birmingham, and a BA degree in Mathematicsfrom the Open University. In 1976, he joined the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at Sheffield City Polytechnic first as a Senior Lecturer and then in 1979 as Reader. The University of Strathcfyde, Glasgow, appointed him to the Professorship of Industrial Systems in 1981, where he is now the Director of the Industrial Control Unit. He is a Director of Industrial Systems and Control Ltd., and is the Technical Director of the Department of Trade & Industry supported Industrial Club on Advanced Control Technology. He is the Vice chairman of the Control Theory Committee IFAC, the Chairman of the IEEEE CSS International Committee, and serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE CSS and of the Theory Committee of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is the Managing Editor of the Journal Adaptive Control & Signal Processing and Robust and Nonlinear Control. He is the editor of the Prentice Hall International series of books on Systems and Control Engineering and on Signal Processing. He is the General Chairman of the IFAC Working Group on Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing. Read More Read Less