David Staelin is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he actively served on the faculty for 46 years and also received his SB, SM, and ScD degrees. His teaching involves signal processing, estimation, and electro-magnetics, and his recent research has primarily involved neural signal processing, remote sensing and estimation, image processing, and communications networks. Neural spike processing has been an interest for over 50 years and became a major effort in 2007. He was an Assistant Director of the MIT L...