Terrence W. Pratt, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (retired).
He got his B.A., M.A., Ph.D. 1965 (mathematics) from the University of Texas at Austin. he is a former faculty member in computer science at Michigan State (1965-66), University of Texas — Austin (1966-77), University of Virginia (1977-92) and a CESDIS Associate Director & Acting Director (1992-94) as well as a CESDIS Senior Scientist (1996-99).
Since retirement, he lives at his "ranch" on the James River near Howardsville, Virginia and maintain an office in Charlottesville.