James C. Miller, Ph.D. Obituary for Cecil R. Miller, A.B., B.D., M.A., Ph.D. (1912-2002), 2002, 1965-1957, 1952-1950
"Dr. Cecil R. Miller was . . . From 1953 to 1954 he was a Research Assistant with the Los Angeles Board of Education, from 1954 to 1955 a Vocational Advisor for the United Cerebral Palsy Association in Los Angeles, from 1955 to 1956 a Personnel Consultant with the California Test Bureau in Los Angeles, and from 1956 to 1957 the Director of Staff Development, Nutrilite Products, Buena Park CA.
"From 1957 until 1965, he was a Human Factors Scientist at the Systems Development Division of RAND Corporation and then the Systems Development Corporation, Santa Monica CA. At SDC, he worked in the Field Operations Department under the USAF System Training Program (STP) checking out, installing and training trainers and programmers to use the Weapons Evaluation and Subsystem Training (WEST) in the North American Air Defense (NORAD) and Air Defense Command SAGE computer networks. He helped design Desk Top exercises: computer-simulated attacks on the entire North American air defense system. In conjunction with this work, Dr. Miller invented the Quadractor, a protractor with all 360 degrees represented in one quadrant that was used as a manual aid in the development of simulation problems (SDC Disclosure File Number 58, 1963).
"He completed his M.A. and his doctoral studies (ABD) in Clinical Psychology at UCLA in 1954; he received his doctorate in 1964. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Psychological Characteristics of Young Adult Cerebral Palsied Industrial Workshop Trainees" (Diss Abstr, v. 25, no. 9, 1965)."