James L. Flanagan

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James L. Flanagan was a pioneering American electrical engineer and speech scientist known for his influential contributions to digital signal processing and speech communication.

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instanceOf American person
academic
electrical engineer
inventor
speech scientist
academicDegree PhD in electrical engineering
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
master's degree in electrical engineering
awardReceived Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal
IEEE Medal of Honor
IEEE Signal Processing Society Award
L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications
National Medal of Science
birthDate 1925-08-26
birthPlace Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 2015-08-25
doctoralAdvisor Leo Beranek
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mississippi State University
employer Bell Laboratories
Rutgers University
familyName Flanagan
fieldOfWork acoustics
digital signal processing
electrical engineering
speech communication
speech processing
fullName James Loton Flanagan
gender male
givenName James
hasPublicationType scientific book
knownFor digital coding of speech
speech analysis and synthesis
speech compression
speech recognition research
telecommunications acoustics
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Acoustical Society of America
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
notableAchievement advances in human–machine speech communication interfaces
development of methods for efficient digital transmission of speech
pioneering contributions to digital signal processing for speech
notableWork Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception
positionHeld dean of the School of Engineering at Rutgers University
director of Acoustics Research at Bell Laboratories
vice president for research at Bell Laboratories
vice president for research at Rutgers University

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