Thomas E. Fortmann (S'66-M'69-SM'77) received the B.S. degree in physics and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1965 and 1966, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1969.In 1965, he was employed by Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA. In 1966 and 1967, he was a summer staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington. From 1969 through 1973 he taught in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Since 1974, he has been with Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA, where his interests include applications of estimation, control, and signal processing to problems of surveillance and multitarget tracking, and the development of interactive software to implement and support such applications. He is author of Introduction to Linear Control Systems Theory (with K. L. Hitz, New York: Dekker, 1977).
Dr. Fortmann is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Association of Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.