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SIGNAL CORPS RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL FOBMED 

The A:rory' Signal Corps has announced the recent formation of 

a Signal Corps research and development advisory council, composed of 

leading figures in the scientific field in electronics and communications 

and including several prominent members or the Institute. The council 

held its first meetings .Jl.pril 9 and 10 in the Pentagon to discuss Signal 

Corps research and development problems. 

Chairman of the council is Maj.Gen. George I. Back, Chief Signal 

Officer of the .krmy. other members are: Assistant to the Chairman, 

Dr. W. R. G. Baker {Fellow, IRE), Vice-President and General Manager, 

Electronics Division, General Electric Co.; Dean A. F. Spilhaus of the 

University of" Minnesota's Institute of Technology-; Dr. James w. McRae 

(Fellow, IRE), Vice-President of Bell Telephone Laboratories; David B. 

Smith (Fellow, IRE), Vice-President, Philco Corp.; Ralph s. Holmes 

(Fellow, IRE), Director of the RCA Contractor Research Iaboratory; and 

W. R. Hewlett (Fellow, IRE), Vice-President of Hewlett Packard Company, 

Palo Alto, Calif. 
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4 June 1952 

NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF SCAG PERSONNEL ~-·~~~~~~~~~~~--~~ 

.; Dr. Stewart s. Cairns lnr. H. P. Robertson 

Director of Resei-rch, WSID 

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Chairman, Department of Mathematics 

University of Illinois 

Urbana,, Illinois 

Office of the secretary or Defense 

The Pentagon 

v Mr. Joseph Desch 

National Cash Register Company 

D1zyton, Ohio 

.1 Dr. Howard T. Engstrom 

Vice President 

Engineering Research Associates 

507 18th Street, South 

Arlington,, Virginia 

Mr. John H. Howard 

314 Wyndmoor Road 

Springfield, Del. Co., Penna. 

Mr. John Cloud McPherson 

Vice President 

Inter.national Business Machines 

590 Madison Avenue 

New York 22, New York 

' Dr. R. K. Potter 

Bell Telephone Laboratories 

463 West Street 

New Yorlc, New York 

Mr. Dean Post 

Research and Development Board 

Room 3ElOll 

The Pentagcri 

Washington 25, D. C. 

Washington 25, D. C. 

"Dr. Claude E. Shannon 

Bell Telephone Laboratories 

Murray Hill, New Jersey 

" Mr. Edwin A. Speakman 

Vice Chairman 

Research and Development Boa.rd 

Room 3El0a:l 

The Pen\agon 

Washington 25, D. c. 

.., Dr. Charles B. Tompkins 

20630 Pacific Coast Highway 

Malibu, Calif omia 

" Dr. John °V't!eumann ~Institute Advanced Stui~*s 

Princeton niversity v) 

Princeton, New Jersey 

Mr. William Webster 

Ne1iEngland Electric System. 

41.a. Stuart Street 

Boston, Massachusetts 

Dr. Walter G. Whitman 

Chairman 

Research and Developnent Board 

The Pentagon 

Washington 25, D. C. 
REF ID:A65767 • -- Names of Persons Reconunended at Some Time for SCAG Membership 

NAME 

J Aiken, Howard H. 

./ Blackwell, David H. 

j \ '1' Coombs, John M • .:.'\~" · 

/Duncan, Hugh 

Dunwell, Stephen w. 

Feller, Willy 

JFerner, Robert o. 

Forrester, Jay 

Hunt, Gilbert A. 

Kac, Mark - -:;.'l:~\'-~.:t"' 

Lehmer, Derrick H. 

.J MacLane, Saunders?.....,~.'>' 

Meager, Ralph 

Montgomery, Deane 

/Palmer, Ralph L. "A"\ ei~ • "!J ' 

Richtmeyer 

Rosser, Berkeley 

Affiliation 

Harvard University 

Howard University 

International Business Machines Corp. 

.Remington Rard Corp. 

International Business Machines Corp. 

Princeton University 

Sandia Corporation 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Cornell University 

Cornell University 

University of California. 

University of Chicago 

International Business Machines Corp. 

The Institute £or Advanced Study 

International Business Machines Corp. 

Cornell University (Bureau of Standards, 

University of California) 

I Skellett, A. Melvin h-.):f'· ~ ...... 'National Union 

· Stone, Marshall (vl!i~ ~e-w) University of Chicago 

Terman, F. E. Stanford University 

Travis, Irving Burroughs Adding Machine Company 

Tyler, Arthur Eastman Kodak Company 

Ulam, Stanislas M, di. Atomic Energy Connnission, Los Alamos 

Whitney, Hassler Harvard University 

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.. "'"\ '2 ....... o::; J Wil s, Princeton Universi~y 

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