The Van Valkenburg Legacy

The legacy of Mac Van Valkenburg looms large in CSL history. He recruited renowned researchers and established an internationally known program in systems.

In 1963, he co-organized the first Allerton Conference on Circuits and Systems - an international, retreat-style forum where researchers exchange and test new ideas. Today called the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, it remains one of the world's premier conferences on system theory.