MIT Professor Emeritus (post-tenure) Sanjoy Mitter, a member of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died June 26 at age 89. An expert in the theoretical foundations of systems, communication and control, Mitter contributed to significant engineering applications, most notably in the control of interconnected power systems and pattern recognition. Sanjoy Mitter was born in 1933 in Calcutta, India, to a prominent family with a distinguished line of jurists. His paternal grandfather, Sir Binod Mitter, was a member of the Judicial Committee of Britain's Privy Council. His paternal great-grandfather was Sir Ramesh Mitter, the first Indian chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in the 19th century. His maternal grandfather, Sir C. C. Ghose, was a justice of the Calcutta High Court and was several times acting chief justice. He was born to father Subodh Mitter and mother Protiva Mitter, nee Ghose. Subodh Mitter broke with the judicial lineage of his family...
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