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the 2013 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. He is cited “for pioneering contributions to acoustic phonetics and conversational spoken-lan- guage systems.” The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award was established in 2002 as a Technical Field Award given for outstand- ing contribution to the advancement of speech and/or audio signal processing. Victor will be presented the award at the May, 2013 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing in Vancouver.
His work with the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Spoken Language Systems Group, which he headed from 1989 to 2001, focused on the development of many systems that enable a user to interact with computers using multiple spoken languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish). His current research interests are in the area of apply- ing human language technologies to enable easy access of structured and unstructured information from the web, especially in applications such as educa- tion and healthcare.
Dr. Zue has served on the technical advisory board of many multinational corporations, and on numerous commit- tees for the US government. From 1996- 1998, he chaired the Information Science and Technology, or ISAT, study group for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, helping the DoD formulate new directions for information technology research. In 1999, he received the DARPA Sustained Excellence Award. Dr. Zue is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association. He is also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and an Academician of the Academia Sinica.
Jan D. Achenbach awarded the ASME Medal
Jan D. Achenbach, distinguished McCormick School professor emeritus in service at Northwestern University, was awarded the ASME Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was recognized for groundbreaking contributions to the the- ory and applications of waves in solids, particularly in the ultrasonic range,
and education in the use of ultrasonic methods, and in 2005 he received the National Medal of Science for pioneer- ing the field of quantitative nonde- structive evaluation. His awards include the 2012 ASME Medal, the Timoshenko Medal, the William Prager Medal, and the Theodore von Karman Medal. In 2011, he was award- ed a rare honorary doctorate degree from China’s Zhejiang University.
NIOSH and NHCA present 2013 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention AwardsTM
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA), is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Safe- in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention AwardsTM. The awards honor organizations that have shown dedica- tion to excellence in hearing loss pre- vention practices in the work environ- ment and beyond.
The recipient of the 2013 Safe-in- Sound Award for Excellence is the Vulcan Materials Company (VMC), a major producer of construction aggre- gates. Recognized for their commitment and implementation of a quality data- driven hearing loss prevention program, VMC has embraced innovative and cost-effective noise measurement and control strategies. They provide exten- sive noise measurement and control
Jan D. Achenbach
applied to acoustic microscopy, dynamic fracture, and laser-based ultrasonics; and for pioneering ultra- sonic methods for quantitative nonde- structive evaluation and structural health monitoring. He received the prestigious ASME Medal. The medal, established in 1920, is awarded for emi- nently distinguished engineering achievement.
Achenbach earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics, with a minor in mathematics, from Stanford University, California, in 1962. He received an honorary doctorate from Zhejiang University, China, in 2011.
Dr. Achenbach has been a member of the faculty at Northwestern University since 1963. In 1985 he founded the Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention at Northwestern. He is known for his work on the propagation of waves in solids, with present emphasis on the theory and applications of ultrasonic methods to quantitative nondestructive evaluation, particularly the measure- ment of elastic properties of thin films by acoustic microscopy, and the detec- tion of cracks and corrosion in safety- critical structures. He is the author of Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids (North-Holland, 1973) and Reciprocity in Elastodynamics (Cambridge University Press, 2003), as well as numerous papers in technical journals.
Dr. Achenbach an Honorary Member of the ASME and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and the ASME. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and five other academies. In 2003 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for engineering research
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