Rudolf Emil Kálmán is a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor, who was educated in the United States, and has done most of his work there. He is currently a retired professor from three different institutes of technology and universities. He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and Guidance, navigation and control. For this work, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Kálmán with the National Medal of Science on October 7, 2009.
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