John Westcott
British computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Hugh Westcott FRS,[1] FREng,[3] Hon FIEE (3 November 1920 – 10 October 2014)[1] was a British scientist specialising in control systems and Professor of Computing and Automation at Imperial College London.
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John Westcott | |
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Born | John Hugh Westcott (1920-11-03)3 November 1920 |
Died | 10 October 2014(2014-10-10) (aged 93) |
Nationality | British |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1983)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Control Systems |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Thesis | Studies in Analysis of Servomechanisms with the Development of a New Performance Criterion (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | Colin Cherry[2] |
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