John Westcott

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John Westcott
Control Systems
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisStudies in Analysis of Servomechanisms with the Development of a New Performance Criterion (1951)
Doctoral advisorColin Cherry[2]
Doctoral students

John Hugh Westcott

control systems and Professor of Computing and Automation at Imperial College London
.

Career

Westcott was educated at Wandsworth Grammar School, the City and Guilds College, both in London, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] His career began in radar research during World War II. After a year in Germany with the Allied Commission, he obtained a scholarship to the MIT where many scientists returning from the services were addressing the early possibilities of computer applications.[5]

He was the first to lecture on the new field of

British Steel Corporation
in applying control systems to large and complex processes. In the 1970s and 1980s he also worked on macro-economic modelling and computer modelling for policy-evaluation.

Awards and honours

Westcott was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983[1] and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1980.[3]

References

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  2. ^ a b John Westcott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
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  5. ^ "John Westcott obituary". The Guardian. 22 December 2014. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016.
  6. ^ The origins of British cybernetics: the Ratio Club