James Ervin Glover has conducted research in several areas including: 1) Developing statistical methods and algorithms for analyzing individual differences in head-related transfer functions which measure how sound is localized. 2) Performing statistical quality control research on particulate emissions. 3) Converting engineering programs between computing platforms and environments like the Cray supercomputer and workstations. 4) Developing routines to convert data between binary formats used by different computing systems to facilitate analysis.