Abstract
John Moore was born in 1941 and died in 2013. The bulk of his professional career was spent as a researcher, with about half at the Australian National University from which he retired in 2006. His interests flowed through many aspects of control systems, signal processing and communications, with occasional forays a little further afield. His central area of interest was control, and he made many contributions across different subfields, especially in linear optimal control, adaptive control and identification, and general optimization for dynamic systems. He collaborated widely, within and outside Australia (including lengthy stays in Japan, Germany, UK, Singapore and USA), managing to write textbooks in control and aspects of signal processing with local and foreign authors. His contributions were honoured through election as an IEEE Fellow, and as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was awarded a Centennial Medal by the Australian Government in 2001.
The papers appearing in this special issue cover many topics. Were one to read the topic titles and then were to be told that he had co-authored the paper, there would be no surprise: the breadth of topics and the particular topics themselves are both representative of his world. Appropriately too, a number of the papers have as at least one co-author a person who was a very long-term collaborator. All the authors, but especially those with a long-term history of collaboration that left many happy memories, are grateful to Professor Victor Sreeram and his editorial colleagues for their initiative in creating this memorial to John Moore of such an eminently appropriate type.
Those inspired to learn more about his life might wish to consult a biographical memoir published in 2014:
B. D. O. Anderson. John Barratt Moore 1941–2013. Historical Records of Australian Science, 25: 92–111, 2014.
The papers appearing in this special issue cover many topics. Were one to read the topic titles and then were to be told that he had co-authored the paper, there would be no surprise: the breadth of topics and the particular topics themselves are both representative of his world. Appropriately too, a number of the papers have as at least one co-author a person who was a very long-term collaborator. All the authors, but especially those with a long-term history of collaboration that left many happy memories, are grateful to Professor Victor Sreeram and his editorial colleagues for their initiative in creating this memorial to John Moore of such an eminently appropriate type.
Those inspired to learn more about his life might wish to consult a biographical memoir published in 2014:
B. D. O. Anderson. John Barratt Moore 1941–2013. Historical Records of Australian Science, 25: 92–111, 2014.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | i-ii |
| Journal | Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 2016 |