Education
Huffman earned in 1944 his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University, then served two years as an officer in the United States Navy. He returned to Ohio State to earn in 1949 his master’s degree in electrical engineering. In 1953 he collected his Doctor of Science in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with the thesis The Synthesis of Sequential Switching Circuits, advised by Samuel H. Caldwell.
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