Oral-History:IEEE Signal Processing Society Oral Histories
From ETHW
For its 50th anniversary in 1998, the IEEE Signal Processing Society worked with the IEEE History Center to prepare a monograph outlining the history of the Society, during which a number of oral histories were conducted. For its 75th anniversary upcoming in 2023, additional interviews have been and are being conducted. These oral histories and those of other signal processing pioneers are below:
- Alex Acero - IEEE Fellow, President of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2014-2015), member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Foundation. Leads the speech team in Siri, Apple’s personal assistant for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Carplay; and he is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the University of Washington.
- Atal, Bishnu - IEEE Life Fellow and an Affiliate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He retired in March 2002 after working for more than forty years at Lucent Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs. He was a Technical Director at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, New Jersey, from 1997 to 2002 and the Head of the Acoustics and Audio Communication Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, in 1996 (IEEE)
- Maurice Bellanger - received his undergraduate degree in electronics engineering in 1965 from Ecole Nationale Superiéure Des Télécommunications. He joined Télécommunications, Radioélectriques and Téléphoniques [TRT], a subsidiary of Phillips Communications, in 1967 and since then has worked on digital signal processing and its applications in telecommunications. (IEEE)
- Leo Beranek
- C. Sidney Burrus
- John Cioffi
- Anthony Constantinides
- James Cooley
- Alfred Fettweis
- James L. Flanagan
- Furui, Sadaoki
- Ben Gold
- Robert M. Gray (1998)
- Thomas Huang
- Fumitada Itakura
- Thomas Kailath
- James Kaiser
- William Lang
- Bede Liu
- Sanjit Mitra
- José M. F. Moura
- Hans Georg Musmann
- Takao Nishitani
- Alan Oppenheim
- John Proakis - IEEE Life Fellow, is emeritus and Research Professor at Northeastern University and his research is in the areas of digital communications and digital signal processing. (IEEE)
- Lawrence Rabiner - "co-op" at Bell Labs at Whippany and Murray Hill, N.J. between 1962 and 1964, where he worked on digital circuitry, military communications, and the study of binaural hearing. He subsequently became a regular staff member of the Laboratories. His Ph.D. thesis and some of his early work at Bell Laboratories was in the field of speech synthesis and since 1967 he has worked on digital filter design, spectrum analysis, implementation of digital systems, random number generators, and other aspects of signal processing. (IEEE)
- Charles Rader
- C.R. Rao - IEEE Life Fellow, is a mathematician, statistician, and professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. He spent more than forty years at the Research and Training School at the Indian Statistical Institute, and he discovered the Cramér–Rao bound and the Rao–Blackwell theorem. (IEEE)
- Enders Robinson
- Paul Rosen
- Azriel Rosenfeld
- Ron Schafer
- Manfred Schroeder
- Hans Wilhelm Schuessler
- Gottfried Ungerboeck - Electrical engineer known for his work in communications and as the inventor of Trellis Coded Modulation. (IEEE)
- Stan White - worked on R&D of inertial navigation systems, components and devices at Autonetics, the electronics division of North American Aviation. In 1961 he returned to Purdue on educational leave and taught full time for 2 years. In 1963 he was selected as a North American Aviation Science-Engineering Fellow and completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1965. Back at NAA, White worked on aircraft, missile and spacecraft guidance, navigation, flight-control and communications systems and a variety of other projects, remaining with the company after its merger with Rockwell. (IEEE)
- Bernard Widrow - IEEE Fellow, co-author of two major engineering texts, Adaptive Signal Processing (with S. D. Stearns, 1985), and Adaptive Inverse Control (with E. Walach,1994). (IEEE)
