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standing Russian scientist Acad. Prof. L. M. Brekhovskikh, Godin prepared for publication in Russian a fundamental, 1000-page treatise of sound propagation (L. M. Brekhovskikh and O. A. Godin, Acoustics of Inhomogeneous Media. Vol. 1, Fundamentals of Sound Reflection and Propagation Theory, Nauka, Moscow, 2007; Vol. 2, Sound Fields in Layered and 3-D Inhomogeneous Environments, Nauka, Moscow, in press). This book is an extended and updated version of Acoustics of Layered Media by the same authors published in English in 1990- 1999.
Betty Tuller
Betty Tuller elected fellow of AAAS
Betty Tuller, a member of the Acoustical Society of America, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in November 2008. New AAAS fellows will be recognized at the Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in February. Dr. Tuller earned her doctorate in Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1980. She is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences and is currently a Program Director for Perception, Action, and Cognition at the National Science Foundation.
ASA members receive Audio Engineering Society Awards in 2008 The Audio Engineering Society
(AES) presented its Fellowship award to four
members of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) at its 125th Convention in October 2008. The Fellowship Award is given to a member who had rendered conspicuous service or is recognized to have made a valu- able contribution to the advancement
Robert Maher Neil Shaw
in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of its application in practice.
Robert C. Maher is Department Head and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Montana State University. He holds a BS from Washington University in St. Louis, an MS from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana, all in Electrical Engineering. His research and teaching interests are in the area of digital signal processing, with particu- lar emphasis on applications in digital audio, digital music synthesis, and acoustics. Professor Maher was cited “for research contributions in, teaching
of, and service relating to digital audio signal processing.”
Neil A. Shaw, of Menlo Scientific Acoustics, Inc., in Topanga, California, and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music faculty, is a Fellow of ASA and serves as a Patent Reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He studied at the Cooper Union in New York and received BS Engineering and MS Engineering degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles and has been a design consultant for more than 32 years. Neil Shaw was recognized “for contributions to engineering acoustics, sound reinforcement, and service to the Society.” He is a member of the ASA Technical Committees on Architectural
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