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In 1971, after completing his B.S., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees at Stanford University, he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia, where he helped develop that university’s program in optics. In 1976 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and during the period 1990-91 he held an appointment as Denver Business Challenge Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include optical image formation and display, diffraction theory, imaging through turbulence, and information processing; he taught in the areas of modern optics, optical engineering, , electronic- medical- and bio-imaging, communications, and signals and systems. He is a consultant for research on high-resolution imaging through long horizontal-path atmospheric turbulence at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Lasers and Their Applications and is preparing a text on the Principles of Fourier Optics. Between 1987 and 1993 he served as Editor/Editor-in-Chief of Applied Optics, published by OPTICA (former Optical Society of America) and as Founding Editor of SPIE Reviews. He now serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Springer-Verlag Optical Sciences series of monographs, as Editor for optics in the Springer Graduate Texts in Physics series. He is a Fellow of the OSA and the SPIE, and has served on the boards of both societies. Dr. William T. Rhodes is Professor Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and of Florida Atlantic University.