The field of Digital Signal Processing had its origins in the early 50’s and has had, and continues to have, a major impact on how signal processing systems are designed and implemented. Much of the birth of the field of DSP was centered at MIT both on campus and at Lincoln Laboratory. In this talk, Professor Oppenheim will describe his personal involvement in those early years and some of the pioneers who influenced him and who made it happen, and make some remarks about where he think the field might be heading.

Friday May 24

1pm

45-801

Biography

Professor Oppenheim is Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received the Sc.D. degree in 1964 at MIT and is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. During his career he has been a member of RLE and closely affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  His research interests are in the general area of signal processing algorithms, systems and applications.  He is coauthor of the widely used textbooks Digital Signal Processing, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, (currently in it’s third edition) Signals and Systems, (currently in it’s second edition), and most recently Signals, Systems & Interference published in 2016. He is also the author of several video courses available on-line. He is editor of several advanced books on signal processing. Throughout his career he has published extensively in research journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Oppenheim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Life Fellow and has been a Guggenheim Fellow in France and a Sackler Fellow in Israel. He has received a number of IEEE awards for outstanding research, teaching and mentoring including the IEEE Kilby Medal, the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Centennial Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the Society, Technical Achievement, and Senior Awards of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal as well as a number of research, teaching, and mentoring awards at MIT.