When: Tuesday, April 27, 4:30-5:30
Where:GC 103
Before his appointment to that position by Presidents
Johnson and Nixon, Dr. Rechtin guided the development of the
Deep Space Network to guide NASA's spacecraft and served as
the director of the agency that developed ARPAnet,
predecessor to the Internet.
After his Washington D.C. appointment Dr. Rechtin worked
with Hewlett-Packard and became president and CEO of the
Aerospace Corporation, and then served as professor of
electrical engineering at USC from which he retired in 1995.