Table of Contents: October 2000

Features
Evolution and Control System Design
Thomas L. Vincent and Tania L.S. Vincent

20

Generalized Predictive Control
Hüseyin Demircioglu and Ercan Karasu

36

Quantified Multivariate Polynomial Inequalities
Peter Dorato

48

Large Segmented Telescopes
Kun Li, Elias B. Kosmatopoulos, Petros A. Ioannou, and Helen Ryaciotaki-Boussalis

59

Columns

Application Notes: Vector Motion Processing Using Spectral Windows
Andrew V. Dowd and Michael D. Thanos

8

Interview: Introducing the CSS President-Elect

73

From Technical Activities: Electronic Publication Archive Available
Manfredi Magiore, Eduardo Sontag, and Kevin Passino

75

From Membership Activities: Student Activities
Gary Yen

76

Conference Report: Control Systems Research and Education in Vietnam
Lucy Pao and Masayoshi Tomizuka

78

Officer’s Communique: Changes to the CSS Constitution and Bylaws

82

Departments
From the Editor

4

In the News

91

President’s Message

6

Calendar

92

Scanning the Transactions

83

On the Market

94

Ph.D. Dissertations

86

Control Puzzler

104

Bookshelf

88