Arthur David Hall III (1925 – March 31, 2006 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA) was an American electrical engineer and a pioneer in the field of systems engineering. He is known as author of a widely used engineering textbook "A Methodology for Systems Engineering" from 1962.
Hall attended Brookville High School in Lynchburg, Virginia. He served in the Army during World War II. After the war he studied electrical engineering at Princeton University, graduating in 1949.
Hall worked for many years as an electrical engineer for Bell Labs prior to forming his own consulting business. In the 1960s, Hall also worked at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was a founding member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 1965, Hall was the first editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics. Hall later became a senior IEEE fellow.
He is listed in Who’s Who Men of Science as the father of the "picture telephone" and creator of the patented "Auto Farm System", which provides global positioning equipment for precision farming.
His further hobbies included flying, yachting, photography, and gardening.
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