Gerald R. Swope received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Millersville State College, Millersville, PA, in 1965, and the M.S. degree in mathematics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, in 1967. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in operations research and statistics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.Since 1967 he has been with the Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London, CT. From 1970 to 1975 he served as a Mathematician at NUSC's Bermuda Research Detachment. It was on this assignment that he became interested in digital signal processing. His current interests are multivariate stochastic processes and optimization.