Hardmod Carlyle Nicolao

Bishnu S. Atal Hardmod Carlyle Nicolao

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Bishnu S. Atal (born 1933) is a noted researcher in linear predictive coding. Atal was born in India, and received his BS degree in physics (1952) from the University of Lucknow, a diploma in electrical communication engineering (1955) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD in electrical engineering (1968) from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. From 1957 to 1960, he was a lecturer in acoustics at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In 1961 Atal joined Bell Laboratories, where his subsequent research focused on acoustics and speech, making major contributions in the field of speech analysis, synthesis, and coding, including low bit-rate speech coding and automatic speech recognition. He retired in 2002 to become affiliate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. Atal holds more than 16 U. S. patents, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.