Eliahu I. Jury

{{Short description|Iraqi-born American engineer (1923–2020)}}

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|birth_place = Baghdad, Iraq

|death_date = {{death date and age|2020|9|20|1923|5|23}}[https://thearabweekly.com/remembering-eliahu-jury-and-fragrances-we-lost Remembering Eliahu Jury and the fragrances we lost]

|death_place = Miami, Florida, U.S.

|citizenship = United States

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|fields = Control theory

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|alma_mater = Technion, Harvard University, Columbia University

|doctoral_advisor = John Ralph Ragazzini[https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=107324 Mathematics Genealogy Project - Eliahu Ibrahim Jury].

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|awards = Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1986)
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (1993)

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Eliahu Ibrahim Jury (May 23, 1923 – September 20, 2020) was an Iraqi-born American engineer.{{cite journal |last=Premaratne |first=Kamal |date=February 2010 |title=Eliahu I. Jury |journal=IEEE Control Systems Magazine |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=72–77 |doi=10.1109/MCS.2009.935223}} He received his the E.E. degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now, Israel), in 1947, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1949, and the Sc.D. degree degree from Columbia University of New York City in 1953. He was professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Miami.{{cite web |title=Eliahu Jury has passed away |date=30 September 2020 |url=https://eecs.berkeley.edu/news/2020/09/eliahu-jury-has-passed-away |publisher=Berkeley EECS |access-date=21 December 2020}}

He developed the advanced Z-transform, used in digital control systems and signal processing. He was the creator of the Jury stability criterion, which is named after him.{{Cite journal |last=Jury |first=Eliahu |date=1963 |title=On the roots of a real polynomial inside the unit circle and a stability criterion for linear discrete systems |journal=IFAC Proceedings |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=142–153 |doi=10.1016/S1474-6670(17)69648-4 |doi-access=free }}

He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the ASME, 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.{{cite web |url=http://a2c2.org/awards/richard-e-bellman-control-heritage-award |title=Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award |publisher=American Automatic Control Council |accessdate={{Format date|2013|2|10}} |archive-date=2018-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001032837/http://a2c2.org/awards/richard-e-bellman-control-heritage-award |url-status=dead }}