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In 1953, he entered T Philadelphia’s Temple University, and he soon landed a summer internship at Bell Telephone Laboratories. His supervisors asked him to work on headphones used in acoustics Download now experiments, which weren’t able to transmit ultraprecise pulses of and get IEEE at sound. West built a new kind of headphones with a transducer made from a solid dielectric material. Then he went back to college. your fingertips. “In November, I got a call,” West remembers. “They said, ‘Gee whiz, these things work very well, but only for a limited time.’ So I agreed to come back over Christmas break to see what I could do.” Further experimentation led to his invention, with Gerhard Sessler, of the electret microphone, a now-ubiquitous technology used in hearing aids, computers, and mobile phones. After graduating in 1957, West joined the Bell Labs staff. There and later at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, which he joined in 2001, he continued to invent and improve, working in such areas as architectural acoustics and teleconferencing. West, an IEEE Life Fellow, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1998, the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 1999, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2006. His latest invention, which he and Johns Hopkins colleague Mounya Elhilali describe in this issue, is an AI-enabled stethoscope to help diagnose pneumonia, a top killer of children in the developing world. “This is the first time in my career that I’ve had an opportunity to save lives,” West says. “Who knows, maybe one of the babies we save will find a solution to a major problem of their day.” n CITING ARTICLES IN IEEE SPECTRUM IEEE Spectrum publishes an international and a North American edition, as indicated at the bottom of each page. Both have the same editorial content, but because of differences in advertising, 02.19 page numbers may differ. In citations, you should include the issue designation. For example, Past Forward is in IEEE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY HOPKINS JOHNS Spectrum, Vol. 56, no. 2 (INT), February 2019, p. 48, or in IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 56, no. 2 (NA), February 2019, p. 52. CONTRIBUTORS_ EDITOR IN CHIEF ADVERTISING PRODUCTION MANAGER David Brumley Susan Hassler, [email protected] Felicia Spagnoli, [email protected] EXECUTIVE EDITOR SENIOR ADVERTISING PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Brumley spent five years working as Glenn Zorpette, [email protected] Nicole Evans Gyimah, [email protected] a chief information security officer, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, DIGITAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD “chasing people who broke into my systems,” he Harry Goldstein, [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Susan Hassler, Chair; David C. Brock, Sudhir Dixit, Limor says. “I wanted to do something about it, and so Elizabeth A. Bretz, [email protected] Fried, Robert Hebner, Joseph J. Helble, Grant Jacoby, Leah I’ve spent the past 15 years at Carnegie Mellon SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Jamieson, Jelena Kovacevic, Deepa Kundur, Norberto University trying to find an autonomous solution.” Mark Montgomery, [email protected] Lerendegui, Steve Mann, Allison Marsh, Jacob Østergaard, His system finds and patches vulnerabilities that SENIOR EDITORS Umit Ozguner, Thrasos N. Pappas, H. Vincent Poor, John Rogers, bad guys might exploit. Brumley’s article, in this Stephen Cass (Resources), [email protected] Jonathan Rothberg, Umar Saif, Takao Someya, Maurizio Vecchione, Yu Zheng, Kun Zhou, Edward Zyszkowski issue [p.