An interesting historical DSP article.

Hello Earthlings,
   I just ran across an interesting article, by 
Alan Oppenheim, regarding the early history of 
DSP.  If you have nothin' better to do, you 
might enjoy having a look at that article. It can 
be found at:

http://www.rle.mit.edu/dspg/documents/Oppenheim-2012-Algorithm-Kings.pdf

[-Rick-]
 

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 3:04:03 PM UTC-4, Rick Lyons wrote:
> Hello Earthlings,
>    I just ran across an interesting article, by 
> Alan Oppenheim, regarding the early history of 
> DSP.  If you have nothin' better to do, you 
> might enjoy having a look at that article. It can 
> be found at:
> 
> http://www.rle.mit.edu/dspg/documents/Oppenheim-2012-Algorithm-Kings.pdf
> 
> [-Rick-]

Al is really good at maintaining ties with innovators and R&D industry (and government) partners. MIT Lincoln Lab is a close collaborator, lots of Al's students are now engineers and program managers there. Same with Bose, they have 3-4 of Al's PhD grads working there at various capacities. 

Texas Instruments, in particular Gene Frantz who is a "senior fellow", has been a really good partner, too. They usually have 3-5 MIT grad students intern in their Dallas R&D every summer. Gene used to visit MIT twice a year, to give invited lectures on innovation in signal processing. IIRC he's retired now, I haven't seen him on campus in a while. 

Here's an oldie but goodie video of Al giving a lecture in signal processing, from 1975. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvEM5Y3N60 

IIRC in that era he used to sell an instructional video series, and short courses on signal processing. When he cleaned up his lab a few years ago he dumped a whole bunch of VHS tapes that had those lectures/courses, so we students had fun watching them.

On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:43:03 -0700 (PDT), julius <juliusk@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 3:04:03 PM UTC-4, Rick Lyons wrote:
>> Hello Earthlings,
>>    I just ran across an interesting article, by 
>> Alan Oppenheim, regarding the early history of 
>> DSP.  If you have nothin' better to do, you 
>> might enjoy having a look at that article. It can 
>> be found at:
>> 
>> http://www.rle.mit.edu/dspg/documents/Oppenheim-2012-Algorithm-Kings.pdf
>> 
>> [-Rick-]
>
>Al is really good at maintaining ties with innovators and R&D industry (and government) partners. MIT Lincoln Lab is a close collaborator, lots of Al's students are now engineers and program managers there. Same with Bose, they have 3-4 of Al's PhD grads working there at various capacities. 
>
>Texas Instruments, in particular Gene Frantz who is a "senior fellow", has been a really good partner, too. They usually have 3-5 MIT grad students intern in their Dallas R&D every summer. Gene used to visit MIT twice a year, to give invited lectures on innovation in signal processing. IIRC he's retired now, I haven't seen him on campus in a while. 
>
>Here's an oldie but goodie video of Al giving a lecture in signal processing, from 1975. 
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvEM5Y3N60 
>
>IIRC in that era he used to sell an instructional video series, and short courses on signal processing. When he cleaned up his lab a few years ago he dumped a whole bunch of VHS tapes that had those lectures/courses, so we students had fun watching them.

Hi Julius,
   Interesting.  It's easy to see that Prof. Oppenheim 
is an obsessive/compulsive DSP fanatic.  And I mean 
that in the most complimentary, flattering, way.

You mentioned old instructional videos on VHS tapes.
I have a half dozen of those old VHS tapes on DSP, 
presented by Oppenheim, Schafer, McClellan, etc. 
I wonder if those tapes are worth anything to anybody.
(I threw my VHS player out the door years ago.)

[-Rick-]

julius <juliusk@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
> Here's an oldie but goodie video of Al giving a lecture in signal processing, from 1975. 
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvEM5Y3N60 

Thanks for that reference, Julius! I had read/heard about Thomas
Stockham's work with the Caruso recordings many years ago (the 80s) but
never heard it. This is fantastic! It is also motivating to see a young
Dr. Oppenheim and his enthusiasm for DSP.
-- 
Randy Yates
Digital Signal Labs
http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

On Mon, 18 May 2015 06:43:03 -0700, julius wrote:

> On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 3:04:03 PM UTC-4, Rick Lyons wrote:
>> Hello Earthlings,
>>    I just ran across an interesting article, by
>> Alan Oppenheim, regarding the early history of DSP.  If you have
>> nothin' better to do, you might enjoy having a look at that article. It
>> can be found at:
>> 
>> http://www.rle.mit.edu/dspg/documents/Oppenheim-2012-Algorithm-
Kings.pdf
>> 
>> [-Rick-]
> 
> Al is really good at maintaining ties with innovators and R&D industry
> (and government) partners. MIT Lincoln Lab is a close collaborator, lots
> of Al's students are now engineers and program managers there. Same with
> Bose, they have 3-4 of Al's PhD grads working there at various
> capacities.
> 
> Texas Instruments, in particular Gene Frantz who is a "senior fellow",
> has been a really good partner, too. They usually have 3-5 MIT grad
> students intern in their Dallas R&D every summer. Gene used to visit MIT
> twice a year, to give invited lectures on innovation in signal
> processing. IIRC he's retired now, I haven't seen him on campus in a
> while.
> 
> Here's an oldie but goodie video of Al giving a lecture in signal
> processing, from 1975.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvEM5Y3N60
> 

Nice videos.  The same series of videos and the rest of the course 
materials (except textbook) can also be downloaded from:

<http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-008-digital-signal-processing-
spring-2011/index.htm>