In electrical engineering at Texas Technical University, then Texas Technological College, in Lubbock, Texas, studied for a Bachelor of Science In engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1946-1951), and completed a Master of Science There he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering with his dissertation "Properties of High-Pass Signals" (1965).
Born in Coahoma, Texas, Logan earned a Bachelor of Science (1956). He then moved to New Jersey where he joined Bell Labs (1956) and started his doctoral studies at Columbia University. Logan joined the communication theory department at Bell Labs (1956) where he and others demonstrated the use of computer simulation in the study of reverberation in digital audio, and did joint work with Manfred R. Schroeder who later pioneered MP3 audio (1961).
He was with the mathematics center (1963-1993) where he contributed to the theory of signals.
As was his father Frank, Logan was a fiddler. He played with Mike Seeger in the late 1950s, with The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover and Bill Monroe in the 1960s, and with Peter Rowan in the 1980s.
He performed on several records and international tours, and had minor roles in movies as well. In 1969, Logan played fiddle on the Bee Gees" 1969 song "Give Your Best", released on the band"s sixth album Odessa.
