Conny Palm

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Conrad "Conny" Palm (1907 - 1951) was a Swedish mathematician, known for several contributions to teletraffic engineering and queueing theory.[1]

Palm entered Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, being awarded his M.Sc. (1940) and Ph.D (1943) on a dissertation entitled Intensitätsschwankungen im Fernsprechverkehr. Palms work was also joint with L. M. Ericsson, cooperating with Christian Jacobaeus. He attended Harald Cramér's queueing theory group, met William Feller (1937).[1] Later, Palm was in the matematik-maskinnämnden (mathematical machines committee) where he lead the project that developed the first Swedish computer, the BARK (1947-51), informally referred to as CONIAC (Conny [Palm] Integrator And Calculator). He was adjunct professor in telecommunications at Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan as well.

[edit] Books

  • Intensity variations in telephone traffic (North-Holland, 1988). Book edition of Ph.D. thesis of 1943.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Rolf B. Haugen, The life and work of Conny Palm - some personal comments and experiences from Telektronikk (Telenor research journal), 2(3):50-55, 1995