# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Under control?  The hidden technology of automatic control past and future
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Professor Malcolm Smith FREng FRSAbout this EventThe origins and history of feedback control systems will be traced from the ancients through the industrial revolution and to modern times, with demonstrations. Also outlined will be the later development of the theory of control systems, which began with James Clerk Maxwell's 1868 paper on governors, together with examples including suspension systems, rocket landing, nuclear fusion, and feedback in biology. The lecture concludes with a discussion on whether human understanding will be needed to design control systems in the future.Malcolm Clive Smith is a British electrical engineer. He is a professor of control engineering at the University of Cambridge.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/under-control-the-hidden-technology-of-automatic-control-past-and-future/100001992922994324
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute)
- **lat**: 52.1980082
- **long**: 0.12603309999997236
- **full address**: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute), 29 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Under control?  The hidden technology of automatic control past and future being held?
  - **A:** Under control?  The hidden technology of automatic control past and future takes place on Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Mon, 12 Oct, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute), 29 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Under control?  The hidden technology of automatic control past and future?
  - **A:** Under control?  The hidden technology of automatic control past and future is organized by Cambridge Philosophical Society.

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