Herbert Anton Maxemilian Schneider
Herb was born in Vienna on August 7, 1922. Soon after his birth, his father, Dr. Sigfried Schneider, decided to move his medical practice to Weiner Neustadt, a small town just south of Vienna. As a teenager, Herb was sent to Istanbul to study, and when the war looked eminent, he moved to the United States where he joined the Army Signal Core. He learned about radios at MIT and then used Bell Telephone equipment to keep communications between the allies strong during the D-day assault on Normandy. After the war, Herb completed his studies at M.I.T. and began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories. His creativity lead to 26 patents and the creation of the first transistor computers. A voracious reader of politics and philosophy, he always vasillated between being an agnostic or an atheist. Read about his life in detail, in his own words, here.
Herb's creativity led him to contribute to Nine Evenings, the first of it's kind: a collaboration between artists and engineers in 1964. The electrical schematics, with the initials 
H.A.S., that can be seen on this web site were drawn by Herb. A composite of all of his drawings was used as the program cover. Some of his comments can be found under the Artists and Engineers section on the Nine Evenings Theater and Engineering Event website.
He married Doris Marie Schanzer Paterson in 1953, and is a great dad to Thomas and Linda. With only a little coaxing Herb can always be convinced to play the Happy Farmer on the piano. Common Dad play!