Robert C. Tausworthe
Senior Research Engineer
JPL
Fellow IEEE
Dr. Robert C. Tausworthe is a Senior Research Engineer and
Chief Technologist of the Informations Systems Development and
Operations Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He previously
served as Software Chief Engineer of Deep Space Network Digital
Systems, Manager of JPL's Institutional Software Standards
development, and was Deputy Software Manager of the Galileo Project.
He is the author of the two-volume set, Standardized Development of
Computer Software (Prentice-Hall, Inc.), thirty papers in
software methodology and analysis, and over one hundred papers in
communications theory and mathematics. Dr. Tausworthe's interests in
communications range from high-performance deep-space receivers to
planetary ranging systems. He was co-investigator in the Celestial
Mechanics Experiment of the Mariner V mission to Venus, and innovated
the first planetary ranging system, used by that experiment. In
software, his interests lie in development process modeling,
simulation, and improvement. Dr. Tausworthe is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and a member of the ACM and Sigma Xi. He also served as a member of
the AIAA Software Systems Technical Committee. He has received the
NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, the NASA Exceptional
Service Medal, and three NASA Outstanding Performance Awards. He
received the BSEE degree from New Mexico State University in 1957, and
the MSEE and Ph. D. degrees from the California Institute of
Technology in 1958 and 1963, respectively.
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