At the 145th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, which took place in Tennessee recently, five individuals were recognized for their contributions to the field.
Richard H. Lyon received ASA’s top honor, the Gold Medal. Lyon, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and president of RH Lyon Corp in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was recognized for his “sustained leadership and ex-tensive contributions in the application of statistical concepts to structural acoustics and noise.”
The R. Bruce Lindsay Award went to Dani Byrd for her “research in motor control and timing in speech production.” Byrd is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Southern California.
Brian C. J. Moore, the professor of auditory perception in the department of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge, received the Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. Moore was honored for his “contributions to understanding human auditory perception, especially the perceptual...
