Let me briefly introduce our first acoustician. He is Professor Alberto Behar, one of the founders and the first President of the Argentine Association of Acousticians. Over the course of his career in acoustics, Professor Behar has done research on the accuracy of...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the Editor Featured Articles The Mammalian Ear: Physics and the Principles of Evolution – Geoffrey A. Manley, Andrei N. Lukashkin, Patrício Simões, George...
Welcome to the fifth installment of The World Through Sound. Last time, we discussed the concepts of equilibrium and acoustic pressure, and how almost any variation around equilibrium can bear a striking resemblance to the behavior of sound. Today, we are going to...
A recent publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) caught the attention of several major news outlets this past Tuesday. From Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins Killer...
AT Collections – Science Communication STEM professionals are accustomed to communicating their research and activities to peers. However, the standard conference or lecture approach for communicating usually is not the best way to educate someone with little to no...
Welcome to the third installment of “The World Through Sound,” the Acoustics Today web series that shows how understanding just a few concepts in acoustics can change the way you see the world around you. Last time we considered frequency and how the relationship...
Table of Contents Acquired Hearing Loss: Are Prevention and Reversal Realistic Goals?. 2 Colleen Le Prell 2 U-boat Predators in the Great War: “A Problem of Physics, Pure and Simple”. 3 Roy Manstan. 3 The Acoustics of the Modern Jazz Drum Kit 4 K. Ellington Scott 4...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. Featured Articles SOUNDSCAPE- AN APPROACH TO RELY ON HUMAN PERCEPTION AND EXPERTISE IN THE POST-MODERN COMMUNITY NOISE ERA – Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the President and the Executive Director From the Web Office Manager Featured Articles The Invention and Evolution of the Piano – Nicholas Giordano...
Sound files and descriptions from Dennis H. Klatt (1987), “Review of text-to-speech conversion for English” J. Acous. Soc. Amer. 82, 737-793 Part A: Development of speech synthesizers Part A: Development of speech synthesizers 1. The VODER of Homer...
AT Collections – Technical Committees The thirteen technical committees of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) provide the focus for members’ technical interests. The technical committees play an important role in arranging technical sessions for the meetings...
Welcome to the sixth installment of The World Through Sound. Last time we discussed one of the most popular units for measuring sound, the decibel , and gave a few rules of thumb to help even a non-scientist make sense of decibel values. In this edition instead of...
Welcome to another installment of The World Through Sound. Last time, we talked about resonance and why some things ring while others don’t. In this article, we will go deeper into that concept and explore normal modes, the patterns of motion that are created when...
The World Through Sound: Reflection, Refraction, and the Principle of Least Time Welcome to another installment of The World Through Sound. Last time, we talked about mode shapes and the blurry line between things that are discrete and distinct and things that are...
Dr. Ilene Busch-Vishniac, a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) since 1977 and a fellow since 1987, served as ASA Vice President from 1996-1997 and ASA President from 2003-2004. As a fellow of ASA in 1987, she received the R. Bruce Lindsay Award for her...
The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...
Among the list of the Acoustical Society’s Gold Medalists, there is a recipient whose contributions to the Society are intriguingly summarized: “for fundamental contributions to physical acoustics and biomedical ultrasound and for innovative leadership in electronic...
Become a Member of the Acoustical Society of America The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) invites individuals with a strong interest in any aspect of acoustics including (but not limited to) physical, engineering, oceanographic, biological, psychological,...
ASA fellow Timothy G. Leighton has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, the national academy of sciences for the UK and the Commonwealth. He has also recently been awarded the 2014 Rayleigh Gold Medal of the UK Institute of Acoustics, the IoA’s highest...
2-reidenberg VIDEO CAPTIONS Video 1. Excerpt from Inside Nature’s Giants: Big Cats, Windfall Films, showing laryngoscopic demonstration of human vocal folds in action (Ariella Reidenberg, patient, and Dr. Peak Woo, laryngologist in New York), and an explanation of how...
Allen, C. H. and Rudnick, I. (1947). A powerful high frequency siren. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 20(1), 857-865. Bardeen, J., Cooper, L. N., and Schrieffer, J. R. (1957). Theory of Superconductivity. Physical Review 108(5), 1175-1204....
The lure of faster speeds and reduced travel time for commercial flights may come to fruition soon with advances in low-boom technology. The Concorde’s last flight in 2003 ended the first era in supersonic commercial travel. Although supersonic flight of the...
AT Collections – ASA Administrative Committees The Acoustical Society has a number of administrative committees that are critical for its function. These Sound Perspectives essays describe these groups and their function. No Results Found The page you requested could...
To view or download the full issue, click the cover image. To read an individual article, click its title. From the Editor Featured Articles American Luthier: The Art and Science of Carleen Hutchins – Quincy WhitneySynthesis of Musical Instrument Sounds: Physics-Based...
Dr. Jim West outside Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Jim West, Acoustical Society of America’s (ASA) President from 1998-1999, has been a Fellow of the Society since 1985[1]. The Minority Fellowship, established in 1992, was renamed the James E. West...
A Century of Acousto-Optics: From Early Discoveries to Modern Sensing of Sound with LightAcoustics Today, Vol. 19, Iss. 3, pgs. 54-62 Samuel A. Verburgsaveri@dtu.dk Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering,Technical University of DenmarkØrsteds Plads,...
Historical Biographies in Acoustics: Katherine Safford Harris Elle O’Brien Acoustics Today Intern 2018 Reading through the Acoustical Society of America’s list of honors, Katherine Safford Harris is a notable name: she appears twice, as the winner of the ...
Current Issue From the Editor | Arthur N. Popper From the Editor | Arthur N. Popper From the President | Lily Wang From the Editor in Chief | James Lynch Mechanical Speech Synthesis in Early Talking Automata – Gordon J. Ramsay Early attempts at synthesizing...
The World Through Sound - Andrew (Pi) Pyzdek Andrew “Pi” Pyzdek is a PhD candidate in the Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics. Andrew’s research interests include array signal processing and underwater acoustics, with a focus on sparse...
from PRI’s Environmental News Magazine Sounds of the Sea / Jennifer Jerrett (stream / mp3) The ocean is a noisy place and human activity is making it worse. Jennifer Jerrett reports that biologists studying the role sound plays in the sea are making surprising...
