{"id":468,"date":"2019-07-24T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T19:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/?page_id=468"},"modified":"2021-06-15T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T18:21:50","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Founders Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mediterranean Control Associations has established an award,  called the MCA Founders Award, &#8220;<em>To recognize significant technical  contributions or outstanding long-term service to the Mediterranean  Control Association and the Mediterranean Conference on Control and  Automation<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Founders Award Recipients        <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2005 &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christodoulou-ShortCV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Manolis Christodoulou<\/a>, Technical University of Crete, Greece.<br>Presented: MED &#8217;05 Conference, Cyprus. June 2005. View plaque <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005_Founders_Award.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ktesibios Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The MCA Ktesibios Award, first awarded in 2000, has been established to  recognize exceptional contributions to theory, design, or practice in  the areas of systems, control, or automation. These contributions should  not only be outstanding, but also sustained over a long period of time.  The recipient should have a demonstrated record of scientific and  professional activities that have directly impacted countries in the  Mediterranean region. The award is presented annually on recommendation  of the MCA Awards Board and is a silver replica of a &#8220;Kantharos,&#8221; an  ancient drinking vessel.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"423\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/KtesibiosAward.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/KtesibiosAward.jpg 509w, https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/KtesibiosAward-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><figcaption>The MCA Ktesibios Award is a silver replica of a &#8220;Kantharos,&#8221; an ancient drinking vessel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ktesibios Award Recipients<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2003: Professor Emeritus George N. Saridis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA         <\/li><li>2002: Professor Michael Athans, Institute of Superior Technology, Portugal, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/mathans\/www\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>)<\/li><li>2001: Professor Spyros Tzafestas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/users.softlab.ntua.gr\/~sgt\/?main\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>)<\/li><li>2000: Professor Alberto Isidori, Universita di Roma &#8220;La Sapienza&#8221;, Italy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diag.uniroma1.it\/\/~isidori\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Website<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founders Award The Mediterranean Control Associations has established an award, called the MCA Founders Award, &#8220;To recognize significant technical contributions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med-control.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}