Robert P. Goddard Robert P. GoddardSenior Physicist
Environmental
and Information Systems Department
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Dr. Goddard is the primary author of the Sonar Simulation Toolset (SST) software for computer simulation of sound in the sea. SST is being used at several Navy and university laboratories to generate artificial underwater sound, which is used to develop new sonar systems, train sonar operators, and predict performance of new and existing sonar systems and tactics.
Recently Dr. Goddard joined the Resource Facility for Population Kinetics (RFPK) in the UW's Department of Bioengineering. He leads the software development group, building tools for analysis of biomedical and pharmaceutical data.
In earlier projects, he served as both a developer and evaluator in a pilot project looking for efficient ways to re-host Navy real-time sonar signal processing applications on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and system software. He helped develop DCLASP, a specialized high-performance simulator for passive sonars, and TARSUS, a data acquisition system for ocean acoustic surveys. He trained and advised TARSUS users at sea.
His primary areas of expertise are
In 2000 and 2001, I gave a series of four informal seminars intended to introduce APL-UW personnel to the C++ programming language. The audience was a mix of Fortran, C, and Java programmers, and others accustomed to high-level tools like Matlab or Mathematica. Here are the viewgraph sets (as PDF files):
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