A. G. Longley And P. L. Rice Biographies

[Schroedingers Cat]

Anyone know where I can find Biographies and Curriculum Vitae for A. G. Longley and P. L. Rice of Longley Rice signal prediction method fame? Does anyone know their first names? Arthur and Paul would be my first guesses.

 

[rfry]

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE (Volume: 55, Issue: 3) includes a paper that might be of interest (link below). The paper isn't a free download, but from the description below it looks to be a good read.

At the dawn of the computer age, Anita Longley, Phil Rice, and their colleagues at the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (CRPL) (now the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS)) realized that the computational capabilities of the new machines could result in vast improvements of the modeling - and design - of radio systems used by the military and the public in a wide array of applications. The necessity for propagation modeling became evident during World War II, as it was vital for pilots to have reliable communications systems. In the late 1960s, when the Longley-Rice model was developed, land mobile radio and television systems required better engineering than had been available up to that point in time. Marrying an empirical model (based on electromagnetic theory) with measured data (terrain features and radio measurements) provided that better engineering, and resulted in algorithms still in wide use today.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/logi...ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6586676

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Thanks, Rich. Seems like they should have received the Nobel Prize or something for that. John Kraus and O.G. Villard, Jr. also.

 

[rfry]

You're welcome, SC.

IMO, John Kraus and O. G. Villard, Jr earned such academic recognition, but maybe not before Villard's mentor Frederick E. Terman -- which AFAIK never was offered to him, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

I think that the Nobel Prize Committee associated Frederick Terman's name with that of his father, Louis Terman, who is known for developing and improving IQ tests, which have fallen out of favor with educators. I think that may have worked against him and even his students. O.G. Villard, Jr., OTOH, should have been a shoo in based on a similar analysis, though.