Oppenheim Chapter 0 -- About the Author

Discrete-Time Signal Processing: Book Resources
About the Author

Ronald Schafer

Ronald Schafer photo After receiving his Ph.D. degree at MIT in 1968, Ronald W. Schafer joined the Acoustics Research Department at Bell Laboratories, where he did research on digital signal processing and digital speech coding. He came to Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974. He is co- author of the textbooks Digital Signal Processing, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, and the soon-to-be published DSP First. He has served as Associate Editor of Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing and as Vice-President and President of that Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He has received the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award, the Emanuel R. Piore Award,the Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the 1992 IEEE Education Medal.

John R. Buck

John Buck photo John R. Buck received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and English Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, and subsequently received S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Ocean and Electrical Engineering in 1991, 1992, and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an associate research fellow at the Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMAST). Since 1996, he has been a Guest Investigator in the Marine Mammal Bioacoustics Group in the Biology Department at WHOI. His research interests include signal processing, underwater acoustics, and marine mammal bioacoustics. Dr. Buck is a member of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He received M.I.T.'s Goodwin Medal for conspicuously effective teaching in 1994. Dr. Buck's textbook publications include Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Second Edition by Oppenheim and Schafer with Buck (Prentice-Hall 1999), and Computer Explorations in Signals and Systems Using Matlab (TM), (Prentice-Hall, 1997) by Buck, Daniel and Singer. Dr. Buck is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.

Alan V. Oppenheim

Alan Oppenheim photo Alan V. Oppenheim received the S.B. and S.M degrees in 1961 and the Sc.D. degree in 1964, all in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1995. In 1964, Dr. Oppenheim joined the faculty at MIT, where he is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Since 1967 he has also been affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and since 1977 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications. He is coauthor of the widely used textbooks Discrete-Time Signal Processing and Signals and Systems. He is also editor of several advanced books on signal processing. Dr. Oppenheim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sackler Fellow at Tel Aviv University. He has also received a number of awards for outstanding research and teaching including the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Centennial Award, the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award, and the Senior Award of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. He has also received a number of awards at MIT for excellence in teaching, including the Bose Award and the Everett Moore Baker Award.

Ronald Schafer
	After receiving his Ph.D. degree at MIT in 1968, Ronald W. Schafer joined the Acoustics Research Department at Bell Laboratories, where he did research on digital signal processing and digital speech coding. He came to Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974. He is co- author of the textbooks Digital Signal Processing, Digital Processing of Speech Signals, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, and the soon-to-be published DSP First. He has served as Associate Editor of Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing and as Vice-President and President of that Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He has received the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award, the Emanuel R. Piore Award,the Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia Institute of Technology, and the 1992 IEEE Education Medal.

John R. Buck
	John R. Buck received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and English Literature from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1989, and subsequently received S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Ocean and Electrical Engineering in 1991, 1992, and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and an associate research fellow at the Center for Marine Science and Technology (CMAST). Since 1996, he has been a Guest Investigator in the Marine Mammal Bioacoustics Group in the Biology Department at WHOI. His research interests include signal processing, underwater acoustics, and marine mammal bioacoustics. Dr. Buck is a member of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America. He received M.I.T.'s Goodwin Medal for conspicuously effective teaching in 1994. Dr. Buck's textbook publications include Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Second Edition by Oppenheim and Schafer with Buck (Prentice-Hall 1999), and Computer Explorations in Signals and Systems Using Matlab (TM), (Prentice-Hall, 1997) by Buck, Daniel and Singer. Dr. Buck is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa.

Alan V. Oppenheim
	Alan V. Oppenheim received the S.B. and S.M degrees in 1961 and the Sc.D. degree in 1964, all in electrical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1995. In 1964, Dr. Oppenheim joined the faculty at MIT, where he is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science . Since 1967 he has also been affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and since 1977 with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications. He is coauthor of the widely used textbooks Discrete-Time Signal Processing and Signals and Systems. He is also editor of several advanced books on signal processing. Dr. Oppenheim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Sackler Fellow at Tel Aviv University. He has also received a number of awards for outstanding research and teaching including the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Centennial Award, the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award, and the Senior Award of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. He has also received a number of awards at MIT for excellence in teaching, including the Bose Award and the Everett Moore Baker Award.