Vincent C. Rideout

During World War II, Rideout researched microwave radar and relay systems at Bell Labs. In 1951, he also worked as a visiting research engineer at Boeing. Later, he also did consulting work for Allis-Chalmers, Cutler-Hammer and IBM.^{[citation needed]}

Rideout joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1946 as an assistant professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He was later instrumental in renaming the department to Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. There, he was the major professor for 30 Ph.D. students, including Gerald Estrin and Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, in spite of not having a doctorate degree himself.

At UW, he authored or coauthored more than 70 technical papers. In 1954, he published a widely adopted electrical engineering textbook called "Active Networks".^[3]

Between 1954 and 1955, he lived in Bangalore, India, where he helped build India's first analog computer at the Indian Institute of Technology.

In 1964, at the age of 50, he began studying medicine, which led to work in the field of biomedical engineering. This resulted in his 1991 book "Mathematical and Computer Modeling of Physiological Systems".^[4]