Moore, John Barratt (1941 - 2013)

Summary

John Moore was Head of the Department of Information Engineering at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University - a position he had held for over ten years. Moore had worked on many aspects of electrical and computer engineering and was also looking into mobile communications coding and semi-definite programming. John Moore had (co) written over two-hundred publications including six university text books and was a member of many of Australia's top scientific bodies.

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Chronology

1962

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Queensland

1963

Education - Master of Engineering Science, University of Queensland

1964

Career position - Design Engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Design

1966

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Santa Clara in California, USA

1967 - 1968

Career position - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle, New South Wales

1968 - 1973

Career position - Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle

1973 - 1982

Career position - Professor and Personal Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle

1979

Award - Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (FIEEE)

1980 - 1981

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, USA (nine months)

1982 - 1990

Career position - Professorial Fellow in the Department of Systems Engineering at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra

1985 - 1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)

1986

Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1987

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1985]

1990

Career position - Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, ANU

1992

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of Alberta, Canada

1992 - 1999

Career position - Head of the Department of Information Engineering (formerly Systems Engineering) at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU

1993

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Regensburg, Germany

1993 - 1994

Career position - Toshiba Chair at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan (six months)

1994 - 2013

Career position - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2001

Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society and science in systems engineering

2002 -

Career position - Head of the Department of Information Engineering at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Anderson, Brian D. O., 'John Barratt Moore 1941-2013', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 92-111, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14002. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6220054. Details
• 'Moore, John B (1941-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-925275. Details