Kenneth N. Stevens

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Kenneth N. Stevens was a pioneering acoustician and speech scientist renowned for his foundational work on the acoustic theory of speech production and perception.

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instanceOf academic
acoustician
engineer
human
speech scientist
academicDegree Bachelor of Applied Science
ScD in Electrical Engineering
academicDiscipline electrical engineering
linguistics
authorOf Acoustic Phonetics
awardReceived Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
National Medal of Science
Silver Medal in Speech Communication of the Acoustical Society of America
birthDate 1924-03-24
birthPlace Toronto
surface form: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United States of America
deathDate 2013-08-19
doctoralAdvisor Leo Beranek
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Toronto
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
familyName Stevens
fieldOfWork acoustics
phonetics
signal processing
speech perception
speech production
speech science
givenName Kenneth
knownFor development of quantal theory of speech
foundational work on acoustic theory of speech production
foundational work on speech perception
pioneering research in acoustic phonetics
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Acoustical Society of America
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
National Academy of Sciences
name Kenneth Noble Stevens
notableWork Acoustic Phonetics
Acoustic theory of speech production
Quantal theory of speech
placeOfDeath Newton, Massachusetts
surface form: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering
Institute Professor at MIT
publicationYearOfWork 1998
workplace MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
surface form: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT

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ASA Gold Medal notableRecipient Kenneth N. Stevens