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Elaine Moran
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Beverly Wright, Director of the Hugh Knowles Center, presents the Hugh Knowles Prize to Brian C.J. Moore
Brian Moore honored by The Hugh Knowles Center
Brian C. J. Moore was awarded the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement by The Hugh Knowles Center at Northwestern University on 13 May 2008. Dr. Moore delivered a lecture titled “Processing of temporal fine structure by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.”
The Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement is awarded to individuals who have made outstand- ing contributions to research or clinical practice in the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of hearing disorders. The Prize included a $20,000 award.
Dr. Moore was selected as the 2008 winner for his contributions to the understanding of auditory perception in individuals with normal hearing and hearing impairment. His research inter- ests include the perception of sound, mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairment, relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception, design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss, methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual, design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment, and the
perception of music and of musical instruments.
Brian Moore received his B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics in 1971, both from the University of Cambridge, England. He is currently Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley and was a van Houten Fellow at the Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Dr. Moore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, the American Speech- Language Hearing Association, the American Auditory Society, the Acoustical Society of Japan, the Audio Engineering Society, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Audiology.
Dr. Moore is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 14 books and over 440 scientific papers and book chapters. In 2003 he was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. In 2004 he received the first "International Award in Hearing" from the American Academy of Audiology. He has been selected to receive the 2008 “Award of Merit” from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
John Makhoul awarded IEEE’s highest award in speech
BBN Technologies has announced that Chief Scientist John Makhoul is the recipient of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2009 James L. Flanagan Speech & Audio Processing award “for pio- neering contributions to speech model- ing.” The award was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing and is the IEEE’s highest award in speech pro- cessing. Dr. Makhoul will accept the award, consisting of a bronze medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Taipei, Taiwan in April 2009.
Dr. Makhoul has been with BBN Technologies since 1970, working on various aspects of speech and language processing, including speech coding, speech synthesis, speech recognition, speaker identification and verification, artificial neural networks, digital signal processing, optical character recogni- tion, language understanding, speech- to-speech translation, and human- machine interaction using voice. In addition, Dr. Makhoul is Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University where he supervises students doing their Ph.D. work at BBN in the area of speech and language processing.
Dr. Makhoul is a Fellow of the
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