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Novel Method to Measure the Speed of Sound in the Cornea,” which used ultrasonic techniques to gauge a more precise measurement of corneal thickness in LASIK procedures.
Our judging team included Dr. Amy T. Neel of the University of New Mexico and Dr. Gregory Kaduchak of Acoustic Cytometry Systems who said: “We found attending the fair to be an invigorating experience. The future of this planet is surely in good hands. We highly recommend this judging experience to anyone who has the opportunity.” Gregory Kaduchak
Founder and Chairman of Bose Corp. honored by Consumer Electronics Association
Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation, has been named to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®) created the CE Hall of Fame in 2000 to recognize the pioneers of the CE industry and has hon- ored more than 110 industry leaders including inventors, engi- neers, business executives, retailers and journalists.
Dr. Bose, along with 10 other honorees was inducted at the annual CE Hall of Fame awards dinner on October 14-17, 2007 in San Diego, California.
Bose earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As assistant professor of electrical engineer- ing at MIT, he embarked on research in acoustics that led him to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce, in a domestic setting, the dominantly reflected sound field that characterizes the listening space of the audience in a concert hall.
Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 and is a long-time Sustaining Member of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Bose was the speaker at the Fellows Luncheon at the ASA’s Spring 2006 meeting in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) presented awards to four high school students
was an excellent project in both presentation display and stu- dent creativity. His work focused on creating a spectral iden- tifier to distinguish between vocalizations of the Red-cock- aded woodpecker that are correlated with behavior and envi- ronmental stimuli.
The first Honorable Mention was presented to 15 year old David C. Liu from San Jose, California for his project entitled, “Acoustic Music Similarity Analysis,” which described a method for comparing large numbers of songs based on spectral information.
A second Honorable Mention award went to 15 year old Douglass Charles Niemann from Louisville, Kentucky for his proj- ect entitled, “Manipulating the Diffraction of Traffic Noise” that investigated multiple-edge barriers in the control of traffic noise.
The final prize went to a team of 17 year old students, Aman Sarup from Ossining, New York and Palak Patel from West Sayville, New York for their project entitled, “A
USA Meetings Calendar
2007
27 Nov-2 Dec
2008
29 June-4 July
28 Jul-1 Aug
154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana (note Tuesday through Saturday) [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, European Acoustics Association, and the Acoustical Society of France, Paris, France ) [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576- 2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
9th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (Quintennial meet- ing of ICBEN, the International
10-14 Nov
2009
18-22 May
Commission on Biological Effects of Noise). Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT [Jerry V. Tobias, ICBEN 9, Post Office Box 1609, Groton CT 06340-1609, Tel. 860-572-0680; Web: www.icben.org. Email: icben2008 @sbcglobal.net.
156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, Florida [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516-576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon [Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502; Tel.: 516-576-2360; Fax: 516- 576-2377; Email: asa@aip.org; WWW: http://asa.aip.org].
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