Steven L. Speidel, received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, and has pursued studies in neurosciences and neural computation at the University of California, San Diego.Since 1970, he has been doing research and development at DOD laboratory complexes, including the Arctic Submarine Laboratory (1970-1972); the Naval Undersea Research and Development Center (1972-1974), and the Naval Ocean Systems Center, currently renamed the Naval Command, Control, and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Division (1974-present). He has retained the title Scientist while his duties have included basic research on the arctic energy budget, research on the ocean temperature and salinity structures, modeling of undersea sound propagation and modeling of sound scattering from man-made objects, computer simulations of active echoing, supervision of scientific and engineering personnel, membership on the Target Strength Standardization Program steering committee, and, currently, exploratory design of comprehensive signal processing systems using the neurobionic conceptual framework.
Mr. Speidel is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Neural Network Society, the Society of Photo-optical Engineers, (SPIE) and the Planetary Society.