Karl Johan Åström, Date of Birth

Karl Johan Åström

Swedish control theorist

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1934

Profession: engineer, electrical engineer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control.
In 1965, he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process.