Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Václav Edvard "Vic" Bene (born 1930) is a Czech-American mathematician, known for his contributions to the theory of stochastic processes, queueing theory and control theory, as well as the design of telecommunications switches.He studied under John Kemeny and gained a doctorate in mathematics at Princeton University (1953) on a treatise on Mathematical logic.He then worked for Bell Labs until 1987, contributing to Kalman filter theory as well as the Bene network, a permutation network of the Clos network type. In the 1980s he held a position at Columbia University as well. Since 1987 he continued to publish independently.