Julius O. Smith (M'76) was born in Memphis, TN, on March 6, 1953. He obtained the B.S.E.E. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, in 1975. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees form Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1978 and 1983, respectively, on a Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship.From 1975 to 1977, he worked in the Signal Processing Department at BSL, Sunnyvale, CA, on systems for digital communications. From 1982 to 1986, he was with the Adaptive Systems Department of Systems Control Technology, Palo Alto, CA, where he worked in the areas of adaptive filtering and spectrum estimation. He is presently employed at NEXT, Inc., developing signal processing functions for the NeXT personal computer.
Dr. Smith is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi.