37th Automation Conference
Last 7th, 8th and 9th of September
the Automation Conference was held
which every year since 1977
has brought together experts, teachers, researchers, students
and professionals of the Automation field
to discuss matters of teaching and investigation.
The Spanish Committee of Automation, an NGO
in charge of this event
has brought this Conference back to Madrid after 18 years
with the participation of four of the public universities in Madrid
The Complutense University the Carlos III University
the Polytechnic University
the UNED and the CSIC Automation and Robotic Centre.
It was naturally an enthusiastic discussion forum
about issues related to this branch of engineering
such as Robotics, new Technology
Automation and Control, System Modelling and Simulation
and many other specialist aspects of great current interest.
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This year, the Conference paid tribute
to two masters of this field
who have dedicated much of their professional and academic career to it
and who are now retiring. Sebastián Dormido
professor of the Department of Computing and Automation
in the UNED Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering.
I am really touched.
The truth is that as I am a person
who can get really emotional
what I have done is to prepare some notes that I'm going to try to read.
And Rafael Aracil Santonja
professor of the Polytechnic University of Madrid,
Since I was three years old,
and always coinciding with the first week of classes
I've felt butterflies in my stomach firstly as a student
new teachers, new classmates
new subjects, and later as a lecturer.
It was a chance to get to know the work of these experts
as well as that of many people who are currently working
in projects related to this intriguing branch of engineering
Automation with a capital letter.
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