Introduction to Acoustics

Brian C. J. Moore Chapter D.13
University of Cambridge
Department of Experimental Psychology
Cambridge, UK
bcjm@cam.ac.uk
Alan D. Pierce Chapter A.3
Boston University
College of Engineering
Boston, MA, USA
adp@bu.edu
About the Authors 1145
Brian Moore’s research field is psychoacoustics. He is a Fellow of: the Royal Society,
the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Acoustical Society of America. He has
written or edited 12 books and over 400 scientific papers and book chapters. He
has received the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in physiological and
psychological acoustics, the International Award in Hearing from the American
Academy of Audiology and the Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology
(twice).
Thomas D. Rossing Chapters 1, A.2, H.28
Stanford University
Center for Computer Research
in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music
Stanford, CA, USA
rossing@ccrma.stanford.edu
Philippe Roux Chapter A.5
Université Joseph Fourier
Laboratoire de Geophysique Interne
et Tectonophysique
Grenoble, France
philippe.roux@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Allan D. Pierce received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT) and has held research positions at the Rand
Corporation, the Avco Corporation, the Max Planck Institute for Fluids
Research, in Göttingen, Germany, resulting from a Humboldt award,
and the U. S. Department of Transportation; he has held professorial
positions at MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology (Regents Professor),
and the Pennsylvania State University (Leonhard Chair in Engineering).
He is currently Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
(formerly the Department Chair) at Boston University and also serves as
the Editor-in-Chief for the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). His
research and teaching in acoustics have been recognized with his being
awarded the ASA’s Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics, the ASA’s Gold
Medal, and the Per Bruel Gold Medal in Acoustics and Noise Control from
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was the first recipient
of the ASA’s Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education, and was a founding
Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Acoustics.
Thomas Rossing received a B.A. from Luther College, and MS and
PhD degrees in physics from Iowa State University. After three years
as a research physicist with the UNIVAC Division of Sperry Rand,
he joined the faculty of St. Olaf College (Minnesota), where he was
professor of physics for 14 years and chaired the department for 6
years. Since 1971 he has been a professor of physics at Northern Illinois
University. He was named distinguished Research Professor in 1987,
and Professor Emeritus in 2002. He is presently a Visiting Professor of
Music at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, and AAAS. He was
awarded the Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics by ASA and the Robert
A. Millikan Medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
He was a Sigma Xi National Lecturer 1984-87 and a Visiting Exchange
Scholar in China in 1988. He is the author of more than 350 publications
(including 15 books, 9 U.S. and 11 foreign patents), mainly in acoustics,
magnetism, environmental noise control, and physics education. His
areas of research have included musical acoustics, psychoacoustics,
speech and singing, vibration analysis, magnetic levitation, surface
effects in fusion reactors, spin waves in metals, and physics education.
Philippe Roux is a physicist with a strong background in ultrasonic and underwater
acoustics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Paris on the application
of time-reversal to ultrasounds. He is now a full-time CNRS researcher in Grenoble
where he develops small-scale laboratory experiments in geophysics. Since 2004, he is
also an Associate Researcher at the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institute
of Oceanography (San Diego). He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
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