He was an alumnus and faculty member of Stanford University and led the Energy Information Administration from 1978 to 1980.

[2][3] His dissertation, An Iterative Construction of the Optimum Sequential Decision Procedure when the Cost Function is Linear, was authored under the direction of Meyer Abraham Girshick, and published in 1951.

[4] Moses began his teaching career at Teachers College, Columbia University as an assistant professor in 1950, then joined Stanford's faculty two years later.

Moses led the Department of Statistics at Stanford from 1964 to 1968, and concurrently served the first of two terms as dean of humanities and sciences between 1965 and 1968.

[1][2] Outside of Stanford, Moses was appointed the first leader of the Energy Information Administration by Jimmy Carter in 1977,[5] and served from 1978 to 1980.