Founded by Winfield Hill, Director of the Electronics Engineering Laboratory at the Harvard University Rowland Institute at Harvard University. A self-proclaimed "electronics circuit-design guru", trained physicist and Electronic Engineer, he co-authored the text The Art of Electronics with Harvard Physicist Paul Horowitz. Engineering work by Hill in the late 1970s at Harvard led him to found the Sea Data Corporation, which designed instruments for deep-sea oceanography. Instruments included underwater temperature profilers, current meters, wave monitors and inverted echo sounders, underwater intelligent and autonomous instruments, including RF telemetry. In 1988 the firm was acquired by Pacer Systems - itself an SBIR active firm eventually acquired by Titan
