Interviewer(S): T. Priest. Dallas, TX

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Milo Backus is largely credited with being the father of 3-D seismology. Longtime head of research at Geophysical Services, Inc., he masterminded the creation and application of many digital signal processing techniques in the 1950s. He developed the concepts behind deconvolution in the changeover to digital technology, and led the development and promotion of the practical application of 3-D methods to exploration and production in the 1960s. He is currently a geophysical consultant and Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor of Geophysics at University of Texas-Austin. He lives in Dallas.