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substantially, through published papers, to the advancement of theoretical or applied acoustics or both. The Award consists of a certificate with citation, an engraved medal, and a cash prize. During the Kyoto Congress awards were presented to two out- standing acousticians, Oleg Sapozhnikov from Russia and Timothy Leighton from Great Britain.
Conclusion
The International Commission for Acoustics has taken a more proactive role over the past decade to be more respon- sive to the international needs of the acoustics community. This has included creating a new governance to represent and coordinate activities of national and regional acoustical societies from around the world better, and providing increased services for its member organizations. These recent
improvements have increased the visibility of the ICA from the past when its primary role was to sponsor International Congresses on Acoustics, most of which were held in Europe or North America. An essential, although somewhat complex part of this transformation, has been to successfully work through the process of being admitted as a Scientific Associate of the International Council for Science. Reaching the next goal—to become a Scientific Union Member—will be described in a future article in Acoustics Today once that goal has been achieved.AT
1 The abbreviation ICA is often used for both the International Commission for Acoustics AND the International Congress on Acoustics. This unfortunate ambiguity is usually resolved by the context in which it is applied. For this article it is only used to abbreviate the International Commission for Acoustics.
Gilles A. Daigle is currently a
Principal Research Officer at the
National Research Council of
Canada Institute for Micro-
structural Sciences (IMS). He
served as Group Leader for the
IMS Acoustics and Signal
Processing group from 1990 to
2000. He works on a broad range
of acoustics topics including
hearing aid technology, telecom-
munications and multimedia
acoustics, environmental acoustics,
noise control, signal processing,
the acoustics of the ear and the
physics of sound propagation. A
fellow of the ASA since 1988, Daigle has also been awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s (ASA) prestigious R. Bruce Lindsay Award (1988), a Silver Medal from the French Acoustical Society (2002), and the ASA’s Helmholtz- Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal (2005). He has served on the ASA’s Executive Council (1992–1995), as ASA’s Vice President (2000-2001), and as Secretary General (1998-2001) and President (2001-2004) of the International Commission for Acoustics. He currently serves as ASA’s President and as Vice President—Development for International INCE. Dr. Daigle will become the 5th President of International INCE in 2009.
Philip Nelson is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton with primary responsibility for Research and Enterprise. He previously served as Director of the University’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research and holds the post of Professor of Acoustics. He has personal research interests in the fields of acoustics, vibrations, fluid dynamics and signal processing, and is the author or co- author of 2 books, over 100 papers in refereed journals, 30
granted patents, and over 200 other technical publications. Professor Nelson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Acoustics, and the Acoustical Society of America. He is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He is the recipient of both the Tyndall and Rayleigh Medals of the Institute of Acoustics, and is currently serv- ing as President of the
International Commission for Acoustics.
Charles E. Schmid was selected to be the first executive director of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in 1990. In that capacity he has been instrumental in arrang- ing many international meetings that ASA has held with other organizations, including joint meetings with the European Acoustics Association, the Acoustical Society of Japan, the first Pan-American/Ibero-American meeting, and the 16th International Congress on Acoustics. Before becoming Executive Director of the ASA he performed research in underwater acoustics as a Fellow of Honeywell Marine Systems in Seattle, WA (1966-1990) and served as the ASA’s 1985/86 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow in Washington, DC. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, Master’s from the University of Connecticut, and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, all in Electrical Engineering. He has served on the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Governing Board for 17 years. He currently serves as a member of the ICA Board.
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