Sydney R. Parker

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Sydney Richard Parker (born 1923 in New York City , † August 1996 ) was an American electrical engineer .

Life

Parker studied at the City College of New York (BEE 1944) and at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (MS 1948 and Sc.D. 1964). From 1944 to 1946 he served as an officer in the United States Army Signal Corps . From 1946 to 1951 he taught at the City College of New York. In 1951 he became a Senior Engineer at the International Resistance Company. From 1952 to 1956 he was Project Engineer in Advanced Development at Radio Corporation of America (RCA). From 1956 to 1965 he was again active at City College. In 1965/66 he was a professor at the University of Houston in Texas. In 1966 he became Professor of Electronic Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. From 1970 to 1975 he was chair of the department. In 1975 he was briefly dean of the College of Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 1976 he came back to the NPS.

He was the author of numerous specialist articles. In 1974 he was President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society . In 1976 he founded the Asilomar Conference on Circuits and Systems. In 1980/81 he was President of Eta Kappa Nu . From 1975 to 1977 he was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems . In 1975 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers . From 1975 to 1980 he was a member of the Engineering Education and Accreditation Committee of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology . In 1979 he became a member of the Joint Services Electronics Program. Parker also co-founded and edited the journal Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the New York Academy of Sciences , Sigma Xi, and Tan Beta Pi . In 1977 he received the Sigma Xi Carl E. Mennekin Research Award.

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SURNAME Parker, Sydney R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker, Sydney Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH August 1996