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International News
Walter G. Mayer
Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
Hiroya Fujisaki
Hiroya Fujisaki receives ISCA medal
Hiroya Fujisaki was awarded the Scientific Achievement Medal by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) at the Interspeech 2008 conference held in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2008.
Hiroya Fujisaki is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, where he was Professor of Electronic Engineering in the School of Engineering, but also Professor of Speech Science in the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (School of Medicine), and Lecturer in the Dept. of Linguistics (School of Letters). He received BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1958 to 1961.
Professor Fujisaki’s research interests are in languages, processing of language (both spoken and written) by humans and machines, as well as in human and artificial intelligence, with special empha- sis on modeling. His works include a model of language use, a model of the cognitive processes in speech sound iden- tification/discrimination (known as the dual channel model), and a model for the process of fundamental frequency control in speech (known as the command- response model, or the Fujisaki model).
He also played a key role in activating the speech research community of Japan, and in defining and promoting the field of spoken language processing internation- ally by founding the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) in 1990.
For his academic works and techni- cal leadership, he has received a number of awards including the Distinguished Paper Awards both from the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan (1968), the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan (1973), the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society (1988), the Distinguished Service Award from the Acoustical Society of America (1988), and the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE (2000). He was named Person of Merit in Science and Technology by the Mayor of Tokyo (1989).
Hiroya Fujisaki is an honorary member of the Acoustical Society of Japan, a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, a life mem- ber of IEEE and of the Information Processing Society of Japan, a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, and a corresponding member of the Gttingen Academy of Sciences.
He was involved in the organization of the joint meetings of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) in 1978, 1988 and 1996, and served as ASJ chair of the meeting in 1988.
ASA members named Fellows of the International Speech Communication Association
ASA Fellows were among the first fellows elected by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) which began its fellow program in 2008 to recognize and honor outstanding
Sadaoki Furui
members who have made significant con- tributions to the field of speech commu- nication science and technology.
Sadaoki Furui was cited “in recog- nition of his research in speech and speaker recognition and his contribu- tions to ISCA as a board member and President .” He is currently a Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also Dean of the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering. Professor Furui served as the Cochair of the 4th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan held in Honolulu in 2006.
Hiroya Fujisaki, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was cited “in recognition of his pio- neering research in speech analysis, perception, prosody and modeling, and his leadership activities that helped defining and promoting the field of spoken language processing.
Douglas Cato awarded Australian Defence Award
Douglas H. Cato, a lead researcher with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, received theChief of the
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