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DSP Technology: How did it become so powerful, and what can we expect in the future?

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  • UserRonald W. Schafer, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
  • ClockMonday 23 April 2012, 14:30-15:15
  • HouseGabor Seminar Room, 611.

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Abstract: The field of digital signal processing technology has a rich history and many accomplishments that are a source of pride and satisfaction to the many engineers and researchers who have contributed over the past 50 years or more. This talk will begin by considering some of the most significant of past results and some of the key contributors to these achievements. Our purpose will be to highlight things that can be learned from these accomplishments that could be useful as we go forward. While DSP has become ubiquitous in modern technology-driven life, the field is far from nearing the end of its development. The past has merely provided a substantial platform from which to reach for even greater accomplishments. This will be demonstrated by a discussion of current topics in DSP education and research and by speculation about what might be achieved in potential new applications of the continuously evolving technology of DSP .

Biography: Ronald W. Schafer received BSEE (1961) and MSEE (1962) degrees from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. (1968) degree from MIT . From 1968 to 1974 he was a member of the Acoustics Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where he contributed to some of the earliest research on digital signal processing. In 1974 he joined Georgia Tech as John and Marilu McCarty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Over a thirty-year career at Georgia Tech, he introduced literally thousands of students to the field of digital signal processing and supervised graduate student research in speech processing, image processing, biomedical signal processing, and communication signal processing. He retired from Georgia Tech as Professor Emeritus in 2004. Now he is a HP Fellow in the Mobile & Immersive Experience Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, CA, where his research focuses on acoustic and sensor signal processing. He continues teaching DSP courses as a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Schafer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of both the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He has co-authored eight widely used textbooks in the DSP field including, most recently, Signal Processing First (2003), Discrete-Time Signal Processing, 3e (2010), and Theory and Application of Digital Speech Processing (2011). He has received numerous awards for his teaching and research including the 1980 IEEE Emanuel R Piori Award, the 1985 Distinguished Professor Award from Georgia Tech, the 1992 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal, and the 2010 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.

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