John Barratt Moore (1941–2013) was an Australian engineer specialising in signal processing and control systems. Moore completed his undergraduate and Masters studies in engineering at the

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

in 1962 and 1963 respectively; he then went on to work for

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and received his PhD in electrical engineering from the

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in 1966. He returned to Australia and took an academic position at the University of Newcastle; he moved to the Department of Information Engineering at the

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in 1982. Moore has published over 200 papers and 6 books, his work has been applied commercially in numerous application including the polynomial solving routine he developed which has been used in

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software since 1996.John B. Moore CV
, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University. In 1979, Moore was elevated to the grade of

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fellow for contributions to optimal estimation and control and leadership in electrical engineering education. In 2001 he received the

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or g ...

"For service to Australian society and science in systems engineering", and in 1994 was elected a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, John B Australian electrical engineers Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 1941 births 2013 deaths University of Queensland alumni Santa Clara University alumni Academic staff of the Australian National University Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia)