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more then two billion microphones produced today are based on the prin- ciples developed by West and Sessler. Gerhard M. Sessler is Professor of Electroacoustics at Darmstadt University of Technology in Darmstadt, Germany. He has about 300 publications in scientific and technical journals and in conference proceedings and has served as Associate Editor for Acustica/acta acustica (1993- ) and the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation since 1998. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Gerhard M. Sessler Electronics Engineers, and the James E. West American Physical Society and mem- 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal ber of the Audio Engineering Society Inventors Hall of Fame, the NAE Awarded to ASA members and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Committee on Diversity in the Gerhard M. Sessler and James E. Akustik (German Acoustical Society). Engineering Workforce, and the West have been named recipients of He served at Chairman of Deutsche Scientific Advisory Committee of The The Franklin Institute 2010 Benjamin Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Akustik International Symposium on Electrets. Franklin Medal in Electrical (German Acoustical Association) from He is a Fellow of The “for the invention and 1984 to 1990. Society of America, and the Institute of development of the first practical elec- Sessler received the ASA’s Electrical and Electronics Engineers. tret microphone, which can inexpen- Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary He is the recipient of the sively be made small enough to fit into Silver Medal in 1997, the Electrochemical Society of America cellular phones, digital cameras, and Electrochemical Society’s Callinan Callinan Award (1970) the Senior other portable devices.” The award will Award (1970), the Senior Award of the Award (1970) of the IEEE Group on be presented in April 2010. IEEE Group on Audio and , the Lewis Howard Latimer Founded in honor of America’s Electroacoustics (1971), and the Light Switch and Socket Award (1989) first scientist, Benjamin Franklin, The Helmholtz Medaille of the Deutsche of the National Patent Law Association, Franklin Institute is one of America’s Gesellschaft für Akustik(1993). He was He received the ASA Silver Medal in oldest and premier centers of science inducted into the National Inventors Engineering Acoustics (1995) and the education and development in the U.S. Hall of Fame (USA) in 1999. ASA Gold Medal in 2006. In 2002 he Its mission is to inspire an understand- James E. West is Research Professor was The Audio Engineering Society ing of and passion for science and tech- of Electrical and Computer Engineering Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecturer. nology learning. Through the Franklin at Johns Hopkins University in In 2008 he was awarded the 2006 Institute Awards, The Franklin Baltimore, Maryland. He holds 47 U.S. National Medal of Technology, the Institute seeks to broaden public and more than 200 foreign patents on United States highest honor for techno- awareness and encourage an under- various microphones and techniques for logical innovation. standing of the world of science and making polymer electrets. He was Jim West served as President of the technology. inducted into The National Inventors Acoustical Society of America (1998- At Bell Labs in 1962, James West Hall of Fame in 1999 for the invention of 99), member of the Executive Council and Gerhard Sessler patented the elec- the electret microphone. He has (1989-92), and Chair of the Technical tret microphone, in which thin sheets authored more than 100 refereed papers Committee on Engineering Acoustics of polymer film, metal-coated on one and has contributed to several books on (1974-77). He was Cochair of the First side, are given a permanent charge to acoustics, solid state physics, and mate- Pan American/ Iberoamerican Meeting serve as the membrane and bias of a rial science. on Acoustics jointly sponsored by ASA, condenser microphone that helps con- West is a member of the National the Mexican Institute of Acoustics, and vert sound to electrical signals with Academy of Engineering (NAE), the the Iberoamerican Federation of high fidelity. Almost 90 percent of the Board of Directors of The National Acoustics in 2000.

30 Acoustics Today, January 2010 Past President of the International (NTT) Corporation in 1970, and later Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, a served as a Research Fellow and the Fellow of the Australian Acoustical Director of the Furui Research Society and the Institution of Engineers Laboratory at NTT Human Interface (Australia), a Chartered Professional Laboratories, from 1991 to 1997. From Engineer and a member of the December 1978 to December 1979, he Acoustical Society of America and the served on the staff of the Acoustics American Society of Mechanical Research Department of Bell Engineers. Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, as a visiting researcher. He is currently Sadaoki Furui named recipient of a Professor of the Department of the James L. Flanagan Award Computer Science, Graduate School of Professor Sadaoki Furui, has been Information Science and Engineering, named recipient of the 2010 James L. Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing also served as Dean of the Graduate Colin Hansen Award by the Institute of Electrical and School of Information Science and Electronics Engineers Signal Engineering from 2007 to 2009, and is Colin Hansen awarded Rayleigh Processing Society “for contributions now serving as Director of Institute Medal to and leadership in the field of speech Library. Colin Hansen, was awarded the and speaker recognition towards natu- Dr. Furui’s research interests Institute of Acoustics Rayleigh Medal ral communication between humans include analysis of speaker characteri- at the Euronoise Congress at and machines.” The IEEE James L. zation information in speech waves Edinburgh, October 2009. The Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing and its application to speaker recogni- Rayleigh Medal is the premier award of award is presented for an outstanding tion as well as interspeaker normaliza- the UK’s Institute of Acoustics. It is contribution to the advancement of tion and adaptation in speech recogni- awarded without regard to age to per- speech and/or audio signal processing. tion. He has authored or coauthored sons of undoubted renown for out- The award consists of a bronze over 800 published articles. standing contributions to acoustics. medal, certificate and honorarium. He is a Fellow of the Institute of The medal is named after John William IEEE is a world’s leading association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (1842- professionals related to electricity, elec- (IEEE), the Acoustical Society of 1919), a very versatile physicist who tronics, and other technology fields America (ASA), the Institute of conducted both experimental and the- with more than 375,000 members in Electronics, Information and oretical research in virtually every over 160 countries. Communication Engineers of Japan branch of the subject. Sadaoki Furui received B.S., M.S., (IEICE) and the International Speech Professor Hansen was awarded his and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical Communication Association (ISCA). PhD in acoustics and vibration by the engineering and instrumentation He served as President of the ISCA University of Adelaide, Australia, in physics from Tokyo University, Tokyo, from 2001 to 2005, and the Acoustical 1980 and is currently Professor and Japan in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respec- Society of Japan (ASJ) from 2001 to Head of the School of Mechanical tively. He joined the Electrical 2003. He was an Editor-in-Chief of the Engineering at the same university. He Communications Laboratories of Journal of Speech Communication from has spent the last 30 years researching Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 1997 to 2001, Chief Editor of the consulting and teaching in acoustics Journal of the ASJ from 1997 to 1999, and the past 21 years as an academic and Chief Editor of the English Journal staff member at the University of of IEICE from 2001 to 2003. He is a Adelaide. Prior to that he was an member of the Editorial Board of the acoustics and vibration consultant with Journal of Computer Speech and BBN in Los Angeles, USA (4 years) and Language and the Journal of Speech CJ Abell and Co in Adelaide, South Communication. Australia (3 years). His research inter- Dr. Furui has received numerous ests include aeroacoustics, ultrasonics, awards including the Yonezawa Prize and active and vibration control. (1975), the Sato Paper Award from the He is the author or co-author of 11 ASJ (1985 and 1987), the Senior Award books, 9 book chapters and the editor from the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and of 2 books. He has also authored and Signal Processing Society, and the co-authored over 250 papers in peer Achievement Award from the Minister reviewed journals and conference pro- of Science and Technology, both in ceedings. 1989. He received the IEEE Signal Professor Hansen is a Fellow and Sadaoki Furui Processing Society Award, the

Acoustical News 31 Achievement Award from the Minister Mr. Goodfriend received a degree year since 2001, the most recent was of Education, Culture, Sports, Science in mechanical engineering from held in Aix-en-Provence in September, and Technology, and the Purple Stevens Institute of Technology in 1947 2009. The next symposium will be held Ribbon Medal from the Japanese and a Master of Electrical Engineering in Tokyo, 9-13 June 2010. Emperor in 2006, and the ISCA Medal degree from the Polytechnic Institute Professor Crum was also elected to for Scientific Achievement in 2009. He of Brooklyn in 1952. He is a licensed the Danish Academy of Natural was awarded the IEICE Book Award professional engineer in New Jersey, Sciences in November, 2009. The (1990), its Achievement Award (2003), New York and California. Danish Academy recognizes contribu- and the IEICE Distinguished Lewis Goodfriend is a Fellow of tions to all the natural sciences and Achievement and Contributions the Acoustical Society of America and limits new membership to 10 per year. Award (2008). the Audio Engineering Society, a past Professor Furui served as the president and former member of the Cochair of the 4th joint meeting of the board of directors of the Institute of Acoustical Society of America and the Noise Control Engineering, senior Acoustical Society of Japan held in member of the Institute of Electrical Honolulu in 2006. and Electronics Engineers, member of the Consulting Engineers Council, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and the American Society for Testing and Materials. Additionally, He served on the board of trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology. He Courtney Burroughs served as editor of The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Noise INCE/USA awards Distinguished Control, a publication of the Acoustical Service Medals Society of America, Sound and The Institute of Noise Control Vibration Magazine, Noise Control Engineering (INCE/USA) has named Engineering and Noise Control Courtney Burroughs, Joseph Cuschieri, Engineering Journal of the Institute of George Maling, and Nora Maling Noise Control Engineering. recipients of its Distinguished Service Medal in 2009. The INCE/USA Distinguished Service Medal is pre- sented to individuals who have shown Lewis S. Goodfriend exceptional dedication and service Lewis S. Goodfriend named Fellow above and beyond the call of duty to of INCE/USA INCE/USA. It is an award that Lewis S. Goodfriend was named acknowledges volunteers who provide one of the first members of the Institute significant and sustained help to of Noise Control Engineering to be INCE/USA and thus also the profes- elected to the grade of fellowship. The sion. Board of Directors for INCE/USA for- Courtney Burroughs was cited for mally approved the grade of fellowship the idea and its implementation to to honor and recognize publicly any make INCE conference papers avail- member who has rendered service to able electronically, so that people with the institute and has made notable or particular noise control problems distinguished contributions to the could perform a search and see what advancement of noise control engi- Lawrence Crum people had done and find people to neering or notably promoted knowl- contact. This effort has, and continues edge of noise control engineering. Lawrence Crum elected President to be, very time consuming. He also Mr. Goodfriend served as presi- of ISTU became the Editor of the Noise Control dent of Lewis S. Goodfriend & Lawrence Crum, Professor at the Engineering Journal and has helped for Associates from 1953 to 2002. He is a University of Washington, was recently many years with reviewing and prepar- Consulting Engineer serving clients in elected President of the International ing new Board Certification exam the areas of ; Society for Therapeutic questions and sample problems, and in noise assessment and control programs (ISTU). ISTU was formed in 2001 to the tedious process of grading exams for industry, communities, and air- serve this rapidly expanding medical taken by candidates. He also works ports; air conditioning noise control discipline and now has over 400 mem- with George Maling and the Technical and product development. bers. It has held a symposium every Chairs of the INCE/USA conferences

32 Acoustics Today, January 2010 International, attends INCE Board of Florida on December 17. The following Directors meetings, and also helps put six entries were submitted: “Does together the CDs for the conference speech presented in noise prime the proceedings. George actually led the semantic and phonological processing effort to place early issues of NCEJ and of printed target words? Preliminary past issues of NOISE Control/Sound ERP evidence,” by Kristen Doyle, Dept. onto CDs. George also helped to form of Communication Sciences and the INCE Foundation and has served Disorders University of South Florida; as the president. His tireless efforts “Noise Prevention Program Effects on leading the NAE panel on Technology Knowledge and Attitudes towards for a Quieter America are another Noise in Adolescents,” by Shawna Dell, example of his selfless dedication to Dept. of Communicative Disorders, the Noise Control Community. University of Florida; “A higher-order Throughout this, Norah has been at his spectro-temporal integration model for side, both directly helping INCE and predicting signal audibility,” by Qing Joseph Cuschieri indirectly through her support of Yang, Dept. of Electrical and Computer to publish the current conference pro- George which enables him to dedicate Engineering, University of Florida; ceedings on CDs. Courtney will serve long hours to INCE and the noise con- “Exploring Natural Soundscapes,” by as Technical Program Chair of Noise- trol community. Lucky Tsaih, School of Architecture, Con 2010 in April. University of Florida; “An Joseph Cuschieri, INCE/USA ASA Regional Chapters hold acoustic–perceptual study of voice Executive Director, was cited for his Royster Award Poster Session tremor" by Supraja Anand, Dept. of handling of the transition to the new Competitions Communicative Disorders, University INCE Business Office, for updating the The Royster Student Scholarship of Florida; and “Automatic quantifica- INCE/USA website, for setting up on- Award Program was established tion of ‘roughness’ in speech using line conference registration, and for through a generous grant from Larry amplitude modulation cues,” by continued implementation of much of and Julia Royster. This is a chapter-run Savyasachi Singh, Dept. of the INCE website editing and confer- poster competition held once a year for Communicative Disorders, University ence website co-ordination. Joe a total of $5000 in scholarships. Full- of Florida. Cuschieri has also run several national time graduate students enrolled in a The winning entry was judged to and international INCE conferences program involving acoustics, or senior be “A higher-order spectro-temporal and served as president of INCE. undergraduate students expecting to integration model for predicting signal enroll in such a program, are eligible to audibility,” by Qing Yang, a Ph.D. stu- submit entries. Submitted posters dent at the University of Florida. She should cover a hearing conservation or will receive a Royster Award in the noise control topic. amount of $2500 in support of her The Florida Chapter held its Poster ongoing graduate studies. Associate Session at the University of South Professor Catherine L. Rogers of the

George Maling and Norah Maling

An incorporator and founding member of INCE/USA, George Maling has for 39 years tirelessly devoted an enormous amount of his own time to INCE/USA. He and Norah ran the organization as volunteers for many years. George has contributed to INCE/USA in editing Noise/News and continues to edit Noise News Qing Yang

Acoustical News 33 Zachary Collins University of South Florida coordinated the competition. The Brigham Young Student Chapter held its Poster Session at Brigham Young University (BYU) in December with about 55 people in attendance. The following five entries from students at BYU were submitted: “Characterization of full-scale military jet noise using near-field acoustical holography,” by Alan Wall; “Rocket noise: Measurement and prediction by Jarom Giraud; “The effect of non-ideal microphone directivity on reflection localization methods,” by James Esplin; “Interior Fourier Near-field Acoustical Holography Using Energy Density,” by Zachary Collins; “Analog feedback control of broad- band fan noise,” by Cole Duke; “Tackling the ‘Tank Killer:’ Acoustical design of a test range for the GAU-8 Avenger,” by Matthew Shaw. The winning entry was judged to be “Interior Fourier Near-field AcousticalHolography Using Energy Density,” by Zachary Collins. He will receive a Royster Award in the amount of $2500 in support of his ongoing graduate studies.

ASA is currently searching for a half-time Education Coordinator (honoraria position). For details please visit the ASA web site http://asa.aip.org. The review of applications will begin on 15 April and continue until the position is filled.

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