HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Eliahu I. Jury
KAMAL PREMARATNE

o me, Eliahu I. Jury is more than an influential researcher who has made a long-lasting impact on the
field of discrete-time systems and whose contributions appear in almost every text in control theory. For me,
writing about Prof. Eliahu I. Jury takes a more personal
tone. He has been my Ph.D. advisor, a coauthor, a colleague,
a family friend, a trusted mentor to whom I constantly turn
for valuable advice, and a person whom I hold in the highest regard and for whom I have great respect and admiration. After deliberating on how I should begin this tribute,
I thought it apt to borrow the citation of the Egleston Medal,
the highest award given by the Columbia University Engineering School Alumni Association, which was presented
to Prof. Jury in 1999: Academician who initiated the field
of discrete-time systems, pioneered the z-transforms and
created the Jury stability test. With the burdens and pressures of professional and personal life, it is not often that
we get an opportunity to stop and reflect on the pioneering
researchers who have paved the way for us. The Egleston
Medal citation is sufficient testimony to the long-lasting impact that Prof. Jury has had on discrete-time systems. I was
fortunate to receive direction, guidance, and supervision
from Prof. Jury while I was a graduate student at the University of Miami and to have him as a mentor and friend to
this very day.

IN IRAQ AND ISRAEL 19231947

Eliahu (or Eli, as most of his colleagues call him) Ibrahim
Jury was born on May 23, 1923, in Baghdad, Iraq, which was
then home to a culturally and commercially vibrant Jewish
community. He received his elementary education at the
Elementary School in Baghdad until the age of 13 and then
at the Government Public School in Baghdad until the age
of 16. When his admission to the Government Secondary
School was denied because of his Jewish faith, he moved
to Basrah in 1940 and later returned to Baghdad to study in
a private school for his last secondary school year. In 1941,
at 18 years of age, he passed the secondary (baccalaureate)
examination with excellent credentials.
After completing his secondary education, he left Iraq to
study philosophy and economics at the American University of Beirut (A.U.B.). In 1942, as a Goldberg scholar, Prof.
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Jury left Beirut to study electrical engineering at the Hebrew Technical College (now TechnionIsrael Institute of
Technology) at Haifa, in what was then Palestine. In 1947,
immediately after receiving his diplome engineer degree in
electrical engineering from the Technion, Prof. Jury made
one of the most critical decisions of his career.

AT HARVARD AND COLUMBIA 19471954

Although he intended to pursue his graduate studies at
Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, Prof. Jury
chose Harvard University in the United States instead.
To quote Prof. Jury [1], he arrived in the United States
on November 1, 1947, in a situation quite different from
those for whom, some 50 years earlier, the poet Emma
Lazarus had written the sonnet inscribed on the Statue
of Liberty, Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free; the wretched refuse of
your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door. As
with most young intellectuals who came to these shores
as part of an influx of immigrants, it was the post-war
renaissance and the observation that scientific and technical innovations were moving from Europe to America
that primarily influenced his decision to choose Harvard
over Cambridge. This decision led to an enduring impact
on the broad area of discrete-time systems.
In 1949, Prof. Jury obtained the M.S. degree from Harvard, which was the last M.S. awarded by its engineering school. Prof. Jury then moved to New York to attend
Columbia University for his doctoral studies as a Higgins
fellow. In 1953, he obtained the Sc.D. degree in electrical
engineering from Columbia. On the occasion of Columbias
Electrical Engineering Departments centennial in May
1992, it was noted that the Sc.D. degree awarded to Prof.
Jury was the first one presented at Columbia. As Prof. Jury
recalls in [1], it was by a stroke of fate that two of his closest colleagues and friends, Prof. Faz Reza and Prof. Lotfi
Zadeh, also arrived in the United States during the 1940s,
attended Columbia University, albeit during different time
periods, and studied and conducted research in closely related areas.
Prof. Jurys doctoral research supervisor was the late
John Ralph Ragazzini who, along with his colleagues, is
often credited with formally proposing the operational
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amplifier in 1945 [2]. The operational amplifier, or op-amp

as it became popularly known, is now an indispensable
building block in all electronic circuits. When Prof. Jury
joined Columbia, three topics in control-related research
were in vogue, the describing function, the phase plane,
and sampled-data systems. Prof. Jury chose the last topic
for his research mainly because it appeared to need the
most work. In fact, he could find only two references related to this topic. The first reference was Chapter 5 of [3], a
book from the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory Series. The author, Witold Hurewicz, introduced the notation z for eTs.
The second reference was a chapter on sampling written by
George Stibitz, which appeared in a book by McCall of Bell
Laboratories. This chapter introduced the infinite summation model of a sampler. The 1949 dissertation Analysis
and Design of Sampled-Data Control Systems by William
(Bill) K. Linvill at MIT was based on this model of the sampler, although Linvill was unaware of Stibitzs work. To top it
all off, Bill Linvill opted to use the notation z to denote e 2Ts
(instead of eTs ). As Prof. Jury states in [1], In those days, the
M.I.T. researchers refer or read only M.I.T. publications! Bill
Linvilles 1949 dissertation, followed by Prof. Jurys 1953 dissertation Analysis and Synthesis of Sampled-Data Control
Systems, are quite probably the first documents that deal
with the synthesis of sampled-data feedback systems.
The 1950s and 1960s are fondly remembered as the
golden era of systems and control theory for good reasons
[2]. This phrase was likely coined by Tom Stern, who was
chairman of Columbias Electrical Engineering Department
in 19721974 and 19911993. During these two decades, several pioneering contributors to control graduated under the
tutelage of John Ragazzini, including James Mulligan, Ralph
Schwartz, Lotfi Zadeh (1949), Eli Jury (1953), Gene Franklin
(1955), Jack Bertram, Bernard Friedland (1957), Herb Freeman, Jack Sklansky, Art Bergen, and Rudolf Kalman (1958).
In 1979, in honor of John Ragazzini, the American Automatic
Control Council (AACC) established the John R. Ragazzini
Award to be given to recognize outstanding contributions
to automatic control education in any form.
Much of the analytical groundwork for sampled-data
and discrete-time systems was determined by these trailblazers. The z-transform, under this same name, was introduced in [4] by John Ragazzini and Lotfi Zadeh in 1952;
its use as a basic tool in discrete-time systems, especially
in digital control systems and digital signal processing,
along with the development of the modified z-transform,
were the focus of Prof. Jurys Sc.D. dissertation and book
Sampled-Data Control Systems [5].

a professor in 1964, a position he held until June 30, 1981

(Figure 1). Prof. Jury refers to the 28 years (19541981) he
spent at Berkeley as the breakthrough in [his] academic
career [1]. Relishing in Berkeleys academic environment
and its tradition of facilitating faculty in the freedom to
pursue research, Prof. Jury flourished and produced some
of the most groundbreaking contributions in discrete-time
systems and control.
Prof. Jury identifies several factors that attributed to
his productivity at Berkeley. The interaction he had with
an amazing group of colleagues was surely one factor.
Among these colleagues were Bergen, Desoer, Hopkin,
Smith, Takahashi, and his long-time friend Zadeh, who
had also joined Berkeley. The relationship between Prof.
Jury and Prof. Zadeh is particularly warm and special.
Prof. Jury was actually a student in the network theory
course taught by Prof. Zadeh at Columbia, and they remain close professional colleagues and family friends.
Prof. Jury also established collaborations with colleagues from other departments, notably the late Larry
Stark who held appointments in the School of Optometry
and departments of electrical engineering and computer
science and mechanical engineering. Prof. Jury also benefited from his interaction and collaboration with internationally renowned scholars whom he met while they were
visiting the university. Notable among these are Brian D.O.
Anderson, Karl Astrom, Tom Bickart, Nirmal K. Bose, E.J.
Davison, Rue Di Figuerido, Thomas Kailath, Mohamed
Mansour, and S.K. Mitra.
Prof. Jury considers the group of excellent and talented
graduate students he has worked with throughout his career as the primary reason for his contributions. Starting
as their doctoral research advisor, and then coauthor, he
derives great pleasure and pride in identifying his former
students as close personal friends. His interactions with
his graduate students have always been to educate himself,
as much if not more than how the students perceive him as
their teacher. When Chi-Tsong Chen once asked what Prof.

AT BERKELEY 19541981
After receiving the Sc.D. degree, Prof. Jury stayed for six
months at Columbias Electronic Research Laboratory (ERL).
In 1954, he joined the University of California at Berkeley
as an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). He was appointed

FIGURE 1 Eliahu Jury at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Jury would like to be remembered by, it was not surprising

that he responded, lifetime graduate student. Regarding
this statement, in [1], Prof. Jury emphasizes, this is indeed
how I consider myself, for otherwise, my professional career will be obsolete and probably very limited.
Among his contributions during his years at Berkeley,
three items stand out, namely, the Jury stability table, his
authoritative book Theory and Application of the z-Transform
Method [6], and the theory of inners. The Jury stability table
makes it possible to study root distribution of a polynomial
with respect to the unit circle in the complex plane without explicitly solving for the roots. This stability table is the
discrete-time analog of the celebrated Routh table and the
discrete-time counterpart of the Hurwitz criterion, which
can be used to determine the root distribution with respect
to the imaginary axis in the complex plane, again without
solving for the roots explicitly. The original stability table
that appeared in [7] has been refined, expanded, and generalized over the years, including applications to the stability of two-dimensional (2-D) and m-D discrete-time
polynomials. It is certainly true that, with the advent and
pervasiveness of digital computers, the use of tabular methods for determining root distribution (including Jury and
Routh-Hurwitz tables) is not as widespread and popular

FIGURE 2 The July 1975 cover of the Proceedings of the IEEE was
dedicated to inners.
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as it once was. However, the strength of tabular methods

lies in their ability to handle symbolic expressions, thereby
determining the ranges of the parameters for which the
polynomial is stable and making them useful for stability
determination of 2-D and m-D polynomials.
Theory and Application of the z -Transform Method is quite
possibly the most comprehensive and authoritative treatise written on the z -transform. It is a book that has had
an enormous influence on the general area of discretetime systems and in particular, as the books title implies,
on the theory and application of the z -transform in discrete-time systems.
The theory of inners unifies the treatment of both continuous-time and discrete-time systems by combining the
treatment of stability, root distribution, controllability, observability, and aperiodicity [8]. The July 1975 cover of the
Proceedings of the IEEE reflects this utility (Figure 2). Prof.
Jurys third book Inners and Stability of Dynamic Systems [9]
develops these ideas in detail.
Prof. Jury takes special pride in two lectures he delivered. The first was the Routh Centennial Lecture at the
occasion of the centennial of Rouths famous Adams Prize
Essay of 1877 [10]. By 1977, the seminal nature of Prof. Jurys
work had already been established, and the Routh Centennial Lecture was the icing on the cake. The second lecture
was in 1995, when he delivered the Hurwitz Centennial
Lecture during a workshop held in honor of Hurwitz at the
ETH; the text of this lecture appears in [11].
Among the colleagues that he met or corresponded with
while at Berkeley, Prof. Jury valued his close and personal
relationship with Prof. Yakov Z. Tsypkin the most (Figure 3).
A letter that Prof. Jury received from Tsypkin in April 1958,
which in [1] he refers to as an important event [that] brought
great satisfaction and benefit, led to correspondence that
lasted for nearly four decades until the untimely death of
Prof. Tsypkin in 1997. With an award in the distinguished
professor category as a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow at the Kiev
Polytechnic Institute, Prof. Jury also had the opportunity to
collaborate with Prof. Tsypkin in person. While the research
work on sampled-data systems in the West was mainly motivated by radar tracking systems that were being developed
during World War II, in the then U.S.S.R., based on his own
work on relay control systems, Tsypkin was also working
on sampled-data systems. For this reason, Prof. Jury liked
to refer to Prof. Tsypkin as the father of sampled-data systems in the East. I still remember how deeply affected Prof.
Jury was on the day that he heard of Prof. Tsypkins passing
away. I know how much they enjoyed the professional and
personal relationship they, and their spouses, had developed
over time. I was personally involved in gathering their correspondence and creating four bound volumes for the periods
19581968, 19681978, 19781988, and 19881997. One copy
of these volumes is located in the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami; another copy is located at the Institute of Control Sciences at

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the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, where

Prof. Tsypkin was a member (or academician) at the time of
his passing. When you read Prof. Jurys memorial article for
Prof. Tsypkin in [12], the respect and admiration that Prof.
Jury had for Prof. Tsypkin is quite evident.

AT MIAMI 1981PRESENT
He was still at the peak of his professional career when, at
the age of 58 years, Prof. Jury and his family moved to Miami
in 1981. Primarily due to family health reasons, they were
looking for a location on the sea coast, and Miami Beach fit
the bill perfectly. After settling down in Miami Beach, one
day Prof. Jury simply walked into the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami
(UM) in Coral Gables, Florida. I am certain nobody had any
inkling that this pioneer in control systems would be making an unannounced visit seeking employment. Of course,
UM did not pass up this golden opportunity to add him
to its faculty roster. So in July 1981, with the designation of
professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley,
Prof. Jury joined UMs Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as a research professor (Figure 4).
His research output continued unabated while at Miami.
Among the research contributions he made during this
time, his impact on two areas have been highly influential.
The first area involves 2-D and m-D discrete-time systems.
Of course, he was already well known for several contributions in this research area, as evident from the preface he
wrote for a special issue on multidimensional systems in
the Proceedings of the IEEE [13]. At Miami, he continued his
work on 2-D and m-D systems, in particular, on issues related to their stability and model reduction [14]. The second
area of research that Prof. Jury pursued focused on stability
issues related to interval polynomials. Robust stability of
interval polynomials was a completely new research topic
that was engendered by one amazing result by the Russian
researcher V.L. Kharitonov on the stability of interval polynomials with respect to the imaginary axis in the complex
plane. Prof. Jury made significant contributions, especially
regarding stability of interval polynomials with respect to
the unit circle in the complex plane.
During his tenure at Miami, Prof. Jury continued to collaborate with various colleagues. In particular, he collaborated with two researchers that he had initially established
contact with while he was at Berkeley, Mohamed Mansour,
who was then the head of the Institut fr Automatik (Automatic Control Laboratory) of the Eidgenssische Technische
Hochschule (ETH), or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zrich, and Brian D.O. Anderson, who was then
the head of the Department of Systems Engineering at the
Australian National University (ANC) in Canberra. Prof.
Jury spent many summers at the ETH working with Prof.
Mansour and Prof. Anderson. This collaboration, which
lasted for more than a decade, was extremely fruitful and
produced results in a variety of research topics, including

FIGURE 3 Eliahu Jury (left) and Yakov Tsypkin (right) at the First
IFAC World Congress in Moscow, 1960.

2-D and m-D discrete-time systems, model reduction, and

robust stability.
Another activity Prof. Jury enjoyed and absorbed himself in was contacts with colleagues at his alma mater, the
Technion. He has particularly enjoyed his relationship with
Ezra Zeheb, who was then a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Jury also re-established contact with Shaul Gutman, a former student from
Berkeley now affiliated with the Technions Department of
Mechanical Engineering.
Mindful of and in gratitude toward the students who had
been a constant inspiration throughout his career, Prof. Jury
established undergraduate and graduate student awards at
the five academic institutions that had a major influence on
him, the Technion, Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, and Miami.
At Miami, he established the Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Seminar
and Awards, which has now become an annual departmental
tradition where, accompanied by a seminar presentation by
a leading researcher, the best and the brightest of the departments graduate and undergraduate students are honored.
Over the years, some of the most influential researchers in
control-related areas have visited Miami to deliver the Jury

FIGURE 4 Eliahu Jury at the University of Miami.

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FIGURE 5 Yakov Tsypkins visit to the University of Miami to deliver the 1989 Jury Lecture. Yakov Tsypkin is on the right. The
cabinet in the background contains Eliahu Jurys medals and
honors, which he donated to the University of Miami.

Lecture. Indeed, the list of previous Jury Lecture presenters

includes Anderson, Astrom, Bose, Jamshidi, Kailath, Mansour, Tsypkin (Figure 5), and Zadeh. Prof. Jury established a
similar annual Jury Lecture at the Technion as well.
Prof. Jury has always been a keen follower of the history
of science. He has great admiration and respect for those
scientists who paved the way for the next generation of
researchers. This respect is evident from his article on the
stability theory pioneers Hermite, Routh, Lyapunov, and
Hurwitz [15]. After retiring from Miami in 1988, he became
an avid reader of articles and books on historical events and
has written on the history of science (see, for example, [16]).
Prof. Jury has an incredible memory for detail. Even
now, when I cannot locate a lesser known article, I call him
and he invariably narrows down the search for me. So,
with years and dates of events, conferences, and meetings
with colleagues easily flowing, it is easy for him to carry on
a pleasant and more personalized conversation with anyone. You can imagine how comforting this is for a young
faculty member who has just met a pioneering researcher
in their field.
In 1996, after reading the autobiography of Sir Hermann
Bondi [17], Prof. Jury realized that events in his own life story had parallels to Sir Bondis life. Sir Bondi is the famous

FIGURE 6 Prof. Sir Hermann Bondis visit to the University of Miami

to deliver the 1997 Jury Lecture. From left: Sir Bondi, Eliahu Jury,
Kamal Yacoub, and Tzay Young.
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British astrophysicist and cosmologist who, together with

Thomas Gold and Fred Hoyle, developed and proposed the
steady-state theory of the universe. Writing to Sir Bondi,
Prof. Jury began a string of correspondence that developed
into a close and warm friendship until Sir Bondis passing
in 2005. Lady Bondi has recently given this correspondence
between Bondi and Prof. Jury to the Archives Centre of the
Churchill College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom In fact, Sir Bondi delivered the Jury Lecture at Miami
in 1997 (Figure 6). I hosted Sir Bondi during his visit to
Miami, and I derived enormous pleasure in the conversations I had with this incredible scientist. At the conclusion of
his visit, Sir Bondi graciously invited me to visit him at
Churchill College, an opportunity of which I took advantage.

TO CONCLUDE. . .
Prof. Jurys research contributions in systems and control
have been influential, pioneering, and often seminal. Several
generations of young students who have gone on to pursue
careers in academia, industry, and government have benefitted from Prof. Jurys mentorship and close friendship. The
roughly 50 M.S. students and 30 Ph.D. students who have
graduated under Prof. Jurys supervision can certainly attest
to this. In 1991, a conference was organized in recognition of
Prof. Jurys contributions and in appreciation of his interest
in and generosity toward the education of talented students.
The proceedings of this conference appears in [1].
For his research contributions and his dedication to education, Prof. Jury has received awards that are too numerous to mention. However, I must mention some of the more
prestigious awards, including the ASME Centennial Medal
(1980), Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the ETH
(1982), the first Education Award of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (1986), the Rufus Oldenberger Award of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1986), the
first Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award of the University of Miami (1988), the Technion Founders Award (1990),
the Phoebe Apperson Heart Medal from the University of
California at Berkeley (1991), the University of Rome Medal
(1992), the Egleston Medal of the Columbia University Engineering School Alumni Association (1999), the Golden
Jubilee Medal of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
(1999), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the Honorary
Fellow Degree from the Technion (2001), and the Heaviside
Premium (2002) from the IEE (now IET).
Prof. Jury donated the many medals and awards he received throughout his career to the University of Miami. I
was personally involved in having his publications bound
into seven volumes, each volume (except the first one,
which spans the 15 years of 19541968) spanning a fiveyear period of Prof. Jurys career. These bound volumes
and copies of all his books (including translations in several languages) as well as his medals and awards remain
on display at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering in the University of Miami. The ETH and the

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Tel Aviv University in Israel also carry a complete set of

Prof. Jurys publication volumes.
I wish to conclude this article by relating several pieces of advice that Prof. Jury likes to offer to students and
colleagues:
1) Do not be overly disappointed if an otherwise novel
idea or method does not attract the attention of the
wider research community. Such ideas, if they are
sufficiently important, may resurface and catch the
attention of others with the advent of new technology and other techniques.
2) Do not get too upset if a research idea does not get
the recognition that you feel it deserves. Important
and pioneering work will shine even if the corresponding article appeared in an obscure journal as
a short note.
3) Research results toward which a significant effort
was expended may not get as much recognition as a
result that was simpler and easier to derive. In other
words, do not judge your work by the time and effort
invested in it; let the peer community make its own
judgment and evaluation in its own time.
4) Do not assume that research approaches, methods,
and ideas can be monopolized. It is often the case
that other researchers have independently arrived at
the same, or quite similar, results.
5) No research idea can remain dominant over the longer period of time. Progress in science inevitably generates new and better ideas.
During research meetings that Prof. Jury had with Peter
Bauer (now at the University of Notre Dame) and myself
in Miami Beach, one piece of advice he gave us is worth
repeating: Pounding your head against the wall for hours
is not the way to crack a hard problem. Instead, change the
environment, take a break, take a walk around the lake or
on the beach. And then come back to the problem. Prof.
Jury also liked to quote Ludwig Boltzmann in response to
those who criticize purely theoretical contributions: Gute
theorie ist beste praxis, which translates to Good theory
is best practice.
Finally, let me quote a paragraph from a tribute that
Lotfi Zadeh gave in 1999 at the occasion of presenting
the Egleston Award of Columbia University Engineering
School Alumni Association:
Prof. Jury is more than a man of science and intellectual pursuits. He is an extremely kind and generous person, loved by all who know him. He is a true scholar
and a role model for his students, many of whom have
achieved prominence in their fields. I should like to
pay tribute to [him], a deep thinker, a dedicated scholar, a man of ideals and impeccable integrity . . .

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author appreciates the assistance and suggestions
of Eyad H. Abed of the University of Maryland, Peter

H. Bauer of the University of Notre Dame, and Reuven

Lask and Manohar N. Murthi of the University of Miami.
Photos are courtesy of Prof. Jury.

AUTHOR INFORMATION
Kamal Premaratne (kamal@miami.edu) received the B.Sc. in
1982 from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained
the M.S. and Ph.D. under Eliahu Jurys supervision, in 1984
and 1988, respectively, from the University of Miami, Coral
Gables, Florida, where he is presently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the 1992/1993 Mather Premium and the 1999/2000
Heaviside Premium of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing and the Journal of the Franklin Institute. He is
a Fellow of IET (formerly IEE). His research interests include
evidence fusion and resource management in distributed decision and sensor networks, knowledge discovery from imperfect data, and network congestion control.

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NM: TSI Press, 1994, pp. 38.
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