James L. Flanagan

James Loton Flanagan (born August 26, 1925 in Greenwood , † August 25, 2015 in Warren Township , New Jersey ) was an American electrical engineer.

Flanagan graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in 1948 and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1955. During this time, he was a research engineer in the acoustics laboratory at MIT (and between 1950 and 1952 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Mississippi State University). From 1954 to 1957 he was an electronics engineer at the USAF Cambridge Research Center and from 1957 an engineer at Bell Laboratories . From 1961 he headed the Speech and Auditory Research department and from 1967 to 1985 acoustics research. In 1990 he went to Rutgers University , where he became Vice President for Research until 2004 and headed the Center for Advanced Information Processing.

He dealt with digital communication, digital filters, optimal coding of speech signals, acoustic theory of speech generation (including development of an artificial larynx), psychoacoustics of speech perception, computer simulation.

In 1996 he received the National Medal of Science and he received the IEEE Medal of Honor , the IEEE Edison Medal and the Marconi Prize . In 1986 he received the gold medal of the Acoustical Society of America , of which he was a fellow and of which he was president in 1978/79, and in 1985 he received the LM Ericsson International Prize. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering . He held 45 patents (2004).

Fonts

• Speech analysis synthesis and perception, 1965, 2nd edition, Springer 1972
• Editor with Lawrence Rabiner : Speech Synthesis, Hutchinson & Ross, 1973

Individual evidence

1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004