John S. Baras received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1970, M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard Univ. in 1971 and 1973. Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Research from 1985 to 1991. Since August 1973 he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Applied Mathematics Faculty, at ...