Rachel Carr 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 26-570, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USAr ecarr@mit.edu By the time this issue of Acoustics Today is printed, the composition of the United States Congress, plus at least one other branch of the federal government, will...
Learn about the life and works of Leo Beranek in a special issue of Acoustics Today. Leo Beranek...
Louis K. Sutherland, a 62 year member of ASA and a Fellow and Silver Award recipient of ASA passed away on Feb. 23, 2016. Lou did extensive work in noise abatement and on developing standards for classroom acoustics and noise levels where he and his associates aimed...
Dr. Laura Kloepper, assistant professor of biology, Saint Mary’s College – Notre Dame, and the first Acoustics Today intern was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. Laura is one of 47 young investigators who were honored for...
Soundproofing for New York noise...
Norman C. Pickering passes on at 99. Norman C. Pickering, an engineer, inventor and musician whose pursuit of audio clarity and beauty helped make phonograph records and musical instruments sound better, died on Nov. 18 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 99. ...
James L. Flanagan, a former ASA President, ASA Gold Medal awardee, and recipient of the National Medal of Science, died Aug. 25, 2015 in Warren, NJ, at the age of 89. For more than half a century Jim Flanagan has conducted and led research in the area of speech. His...
International Student Challenge Problem in Acoustic Signal Processing – Brian G. Ferguson and R. Lee Culver<br...
View a news article about the research here. See below for the original JASA article. Daniel Mennitt, Kirk Sherrill, and Kurt Fristrup
The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...
ASA Fellow William (Bill) Murphy, Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, is the 2015 recipient of the Outstanding Hearing Conservationist Award from the National Hearing Conservation Association. This award recognizes Bill’s outstanding contributions to research...
ASA members Blake Wilson and Graeme M Clark, along with their colleagues Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer, and Michael M. Merzenich, are the recipient of the 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering. This highly...
A recent publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) caught the attention of several major news outlets this past Tuesday. From Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins Killer...
PASS at the Summit: Report of the 2014 Physical Acoustics Summer School Joseph R. Gladden and George Atkins National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Kent L. Gee and Tracianne B. Neilsen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham...
ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of sciences for the UK and the Commonwealth. He has also recently been awarded the 2014 Rayleigh Gold Medal of the UK Institute of Acoustics, the IoA’s highest...
Background. A truck with a 4-stroke diesel engine travels along a straight road with constant speed. Near the road is a microphone that senses the radiated acoustic noise from the truck during its passage past the microphone. The output of the microphone is sampled at...
Jim Miller, ASA outgoing President, demonstrates the process of “pinging” used by those searching for Malaysian Flight 370. His demonstration on CNN is very informative. Watch his interview on CNN.
from PRI’s Environmental News Magazine Sounds of the Sea / Jennifer Jerrett (stream / mp3) The ocean is a noisy place and human activity is making it worse. Jennifer Jerrett reports that biologists studying the role sound plays in the sea are making surprising...
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