Dr. James L. Flanagan

(1992) AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

"For his pioneering contributions to speech technology"

Presented by: HRH The Prince of Asturias, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

At Bell Labs, Dr. Flanagan contributed to the development of signal coding algorithms used in telecommunications, voice-mail systems, and techniques for automatic speech synthesis and recognition. In addition, Dr. Flanagan invented autodirective microphone arrays for use in teleconferencing and pioneered the use of computers for acoustic signal processing. Dr. Flanagan is now Vice President for Research at Rutgers University, Director of the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP), and Board of Governors Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Bibliographies

Rutgers: Center for Advancement Information Processing

IEEE Oral History

Presentation at WWW Redux Conference, Nov. 8, 2002

Publications

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