Timothy Thompson:
CLASS OF 1967
Woodrow Wilson High SchoolClass of 1967
Los angeles, CA
California State UniversityClass of 1978
Los angeles, CA
El Sereno Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Los angeles, CA
Meridian High SchoolClass of 1932
Meridian, MS
Timothy's Story
Life
After graduating from Wilson, and pretending to be a college student, I wound up in the U.S. Air Force, and graduated from the Defence Language Institute with a diploma in Russian. After the Air Force, I was successful in getting B.S. (1978) and M.S. (1985) degrees in physics from Cal State L.A. I joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory technical staff in 1981, and retired in 2008. Over the years I have worked as a radio & infrared astronomer, atmospheric physicist, and software/algorithm developer. In my retired life I am now on the Board of Trustees for the Mount Wilson Institute, responsible for funding & managing Mount Wilson Observatory. I have been a volunteer at Mount Wilson, in one way or another, since 1981.
Workplace
My work has mostly been in science data analysis & so...Expand for more
ftware engineering. I worked in the radio-submillimeter astronomy group from 1981-1993, spent a year working as a network administrator for the Earth & Space Sciences Division, worked on the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) project from 1994-2002, and after that worked on software development for the Center for Long Wavelength Astrophysics.
Military
I spent one 4-year tour of duty in the now defunct U.S. Air Force Security Service (USAFSS, 1971-1975). After training at the Defence Language Institute, I remained on the staff of the School of Applied Cryptological Sciences at Goodfellow Air Force Base, San Angelo, Texas. I represented USAFSS twice at the USAF chess championships, but was not strong enough to make the all services championship.
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