Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer. He received his the E.E. degree from the

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, Mandatory Palestine (now, Israel), in 1947, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from

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, Cambridge, MA, in 1949, and the Sc.D. degree degree from

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in 1953. He was professor of

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at the

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, and the

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. He developed the advanced Z-transform, used in

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systems and

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. He was the creator of the Jury stability criterion, which is named after him. He was a Life Fellow of the

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and received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the

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, the First Education Award of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Millennium Medal. In 1993, he received the AACC's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.

Bibliography

*''Theory and Application of the z-Transform Method'',

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, 1964. *''Inners and stability of dynamic systems'', John Wiley & Sons, 1974

References

1923 births 2020 deaths 21st-century American engineers Academics from Baghdad Iraqi emigrants to the United States Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Control theorists Iraqi engineers People of Iraqi-Jewish descent Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award recipients UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of Miami faculty Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni {{US-engineer-stub