Granino Arthur Korn graduated from Brown University (B.A., 1942; Ph.D., 1948, in Physics) and Columbia University (M.A., 1943). After wartime service in the United States Navy, he was successively a Project Engineer with Sperry Gyroscope, Head of the Analysis Group at Curtiss-Wright, a Staff Engineer at Lockheed, and a consultant under his own name. From 1957 to 1983, Dr. Korn was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona, where he directed the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory. He took early retirement in 1983 to return to full-time software development and consulting. G.A. and T.M. Korn Industrial Consultants develops software and designs systems for interactive dynamic-system simulation.

Dr. Korn and his wife, Theresa M. Korn, authored Electronic Analog Computers (1952 and 1956), Electronic Analog and Hybrid Computers (1964 and 1974), Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers (1961 and 1968, revised $25 Dover reprint, 2000), and Manual of Mathematics (1968). He also wrote Basic Tables in Electrical Engineering (1965), Random-process Simulation and Measurements (1965), Minicomputers for Engineers and Scientists (1973), Microprocessors and Small Digital Computer Systems (1978), Interactive Dynamic-system Simulation (1989), Neural-network Experiments on Personal Computers and Workstations (1991) and Neural Networks and Fuzzy-logic Control on Personal Computers and Workstations (MIT Press, 1995), and Interactive Dynamic-system Simulation under Microsoft Windows (Tailor and Francis, 1998). His latest book is Advanced Dynamic-system Simulation: Model-replication Techniques and Monte Carlo Simulation (Wiley, 2007). Dr. Korn co-authored Operational Amplifier Theory and Applications (1975 and 1991) and Digital Continuous-system Simulation (1978) and has published over 150 technical papers.

He was co-editor-in chief of the McGraw-Hill Computer Handbook (1962) and the Digital Computer User's Handbook (1967), contributed chapters to 8 other engineering handbooks, and edited McGraw-Hill's Basic Tables series. He was head of the editorial board of Simulation and served on the editorial boards of Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation and Simulation Theory and Practice and of the Gordon and Breach Numerical Insights Textbook Series. He is a member of Sigma Xi, a Life Member of the Society for Computer Simulation, and a Fellow of the IEEE (1979).

Dr. Korn received the Simulation Councils' 1968 Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Simulation, an Alexander-von-Humboldt Prize in 1976, the Society for Computer Simulation's Technical Award for Excellence in 1988, and its McLeod Founder's Award in 1997.