Winfield Hill is the Director of the Electronics Engineering Laboratory at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. A self-proclaimed "electronics circuit-design guru", he co-authored the popular text The Art of Electronics with Harvard Physicist Paul Horowitz

Paul Horowitz

Paul Horowitz is a U.S. physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence .-Biography:...

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Engineering work by Hill in the late 1970s at Harvard led him to found the Sea Data Corporation, which designed instruments for deep-sea oceanography

Oceanography

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