Edward J. Hilliard, Jr. (S'47-A'48-M'64) was born in Pittsfield, MA, on May 31, 1926. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1948. He has done graduate work at both the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.From 1948 until 1953 he was employed as an Aeronautical Research Scientist at the Langley Laboratory of NASA where he was involved in the development and design of radio telemetry systems. In 1953 he moved to the Naval Torpedo Station, now the U.S. Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport, RI. From that date to the present he has done research, development, and design work in various sectors of the underwater missile field. In the course of that work he has published over 55 reports, papers, and articles, some of which include analysis of communication with underwater vehicles by radio and wire, the geometry of evading targets, and the statistics of triangulation ranging using non-Gaussian error densities. He holds two U.S. patents for signal processing circuits.