2000:

Received the Seymour Cray Award from the IEEE Computer Society.

1999:

Awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton.

1991:

Suffered a severe stroke while on a business trip to Star Technologies in Virginia.

1969-91:

Chief computer architect for a succession of companies: Culler-Harrison, Inc., Glen Culler Associates, Culler Scientific Systems and Star Technologies. He continued his research on digital speech recognition and designed high performance digital signal processing systems.

1964-69:

Professor of Engineering and Director of the Computing Center at University of California, Santa Barbara. The development of the On Line System and the Teleputer led to the selection of UCSB as one of the first four ARPANET sites in 1968. He began his research on digital speech recognition and signal processing during this period.

1960-62:

On leave from UCSB and working at Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge with Burton Fried on the development of the Culler-Fried system.

1959:

Received a Ph.D. in mathematics under the direction of Magnus Hestenes, and was appointed Associate Professor of Mathematics at UCSB.

1955-56:

Worked as a mathematician at Bunker-Ramo Corp. in Canoga Park, California.

1952-55:

Worked as applied mathematician at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

1951:

Married Susanne Kreith (1930-1997), an Austrian refugee.

1951:

Graduated in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.

1944-45:

Served in U.S. Navy.

1941:

Moved from Kansas to Long Beach California

1940:

Left home at age 13 to take a job driving a wealthy automobile owner from Kansas to California

1933:

Decided at age 6 that he would become a mathematician.  He carried through on this decision, becoming the first person in his family to attend college.

1927:

Born in a farm house near Savonburg Kansas to John and Lola Culler. He was the youngest of six children.