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Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747
MA degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He joined Tracor, now a part of BAE Systems in 1962, where he retired as the Director of Analysis and Applied Research in its Electronic Systems Division in 2007. Dr. Holliday is now a Senior Marine Research Scientist at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island and an Adjunct Professor of Fisheries Oceanography at the School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and received the ASA Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography in 2004. In recognition of his help in solving many naval prob- lems, he was awarded the Department of the Navy's Meritorius Pubilc Service award in 2002.
Richard M. Stern named ISCA Distinguished Lecturer
Richard M. Stern has been named a 2008 ISCA Distinguished Lecturer by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program was estabished in 2006 to send Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the
world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science.
Dr. Stern has been a member of the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) since 1977, where he is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering Departments, and in the Language Technologies Institute. He received an S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970, an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972, and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1977, all in electrical engineering.
For more than 20 years, Richard Stern’s research has focused on spoken language systems, where he is particu- larly concerned with the development of techniques with which automatic speech recognition can be made more robust with respect to changes in envi- ronment, acoustical ambience, varia- tions in speech production, etc. In addition to his work in speech recogni- tion, Dr. Stern also remains actively involved in auditory perception, where he is best known for theoretical work in binaural hearing. He was a Co- Recipient of Carnegie Mellon University Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1992 for his work in robust speech recognition.
Richard Stern has always been actively involved in committee work to facilitate scientific and technical inter- change in the speech and language communities, and within ISCA he is perhaps best known for serving as General Chair of Interspeech 2006. He has also served as Technical Program Chair of the 141st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Pittsburgh in 2002, and he was General Chair for several major DARPA-spon- sored workshops in speech and natural language. He has also served on numerous technical and standards committees for the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and
D. Vance Holliday (r) accepts the Prix d'Excellence Award from Ed Houde (l), Chair of the ICES Awards Committee
D. Vance Holliday receives ICES Prix d'Excellence Award
D. Vance Holliday was awarded the Prix d'Excellence Award by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in recog- nition of extraordinary contributions, fulfilling the ICES vision of scientific discovery, leadership, and applications that have had major influence on poli- cy for sustained use and conservation of marine ecosystems.
The Prix d’Excellence Award rec- ognizes the highest level of contribu- tion to the ICES vision of “An interna- tional scientific community that is rele- vant, responsive, sound, and credible, concerning marine ecosystems and their relation to humanity.” They will have contributed through their research, scientific leadership, and/or leadership in the objective application of science to policy for sustained use and conservation of marine ecosys- tems. Innovation, teamwork, mentor- ing, and objective communication with the public exemplify the career of the recipient of this award. The award is generally made every third year.
Van Holliday received his BS and
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