Howard Musoff, who passed away in 2004, held a BSEE form the City College of New York, a MSEE from Northeastern University, and a ScD from MIT. He was a principal member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, where he was employed for more than 40 years, and where he designed Kalman filters for applications in the field of inertial navigation. He was also a co-holder of two patents in that field.