Ronald W Schafer
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Ronald W. Schafer is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...

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After receiving his Ph.D. degree at MIT in 1968, he joined the Acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

 Research Department at Bell Laboratories, where he did research on digital signal processing
Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing is concerned with the representation of discrete time signals by a sequence of numbers or symbols and the processing of these signals. Digital signal processing and analog signal processing are subfields of signal processing...

 and digital speech coding. He came to the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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 in 1974, where he stayed until joining Hewlett Packard in March 2005.

He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing and as Vice-President and President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
The Acoustical Society of America is an international scientific society dedicated to increasing and diffusing the knowledge of acoustics and its practical applications.-History:...

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He has received the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award, the 1980 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award is a Technical Field Award given each year by the IEEE to an individual or small team that has made outstanding contributions to information processing systems in relation to computer science. The award is named in honor of Emanuel R. Piore.The award was established...

, the Distinguished Professor Award at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
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, the 1992 IEEE Education Medal and the 2010 IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is presented "for outstanding achievements in signal processing" theory, technology or commerce. The recipients of this award will receive a gold medal, together with a replica in bronze, a certificate and a honorarium.The award was established in...

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Books

  • Digital Signal Processing, A. V. Oppenheim
    Alan V Oppenheim
    Alan Victor Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics , at the . He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun.His research interests...

    , R. W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1975
  • Digital Processing of Speech Signals, L. Rabiner
    Lawrence Rabiner
    Lawrence R. Rabiner is an electrical engineer working in the fields of digital signal processing and speech processing; in particular in digital signal processing for automatic speech recognition...

    , R. W. Schafer, Pearson Education, 1978.
  • Discrete-Time Signal Processing, A. V. Oppenheim
    Alan V Oppenheim
    Alan Victor Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics , at the . He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun.His research interests...

    , R. W. Schafer, Prentice Hall, 1989.
  • Computer-Based Exercises for Signal Processing Using MATLAB, J. H. McClellan
    James H. McClellan
    James H. McClellan is the Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm.- Education :...

    , C. S. Burrus, A. V. Oppenheim
    Alan V Oppenheim
    Alan Victor Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics , at the . He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun.His research interests...

    , T. W. Parks, R. W. Schafer, H. W. Schuessler, Prentice Hall, 1998
  • DSP First: A Multimedia Approach J. H. McClellan
    James H. McClellan
    James H. McClellan is the Byers Professor of Signal Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is widely known for his creation of the McClellan transform and for his co-authorship of the Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm.- Education :...

    , R. W. Schafer, M. A. Yoder, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998.

External links

  • Hewlett-Packard press release on Ronald Schafer.
  • Publications from Google Scholar
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