Melville, New York, May 17, 2004
For its 75th Anniversary Meeting, the Acoustical Society of America asked its technical committees to prepare special lay-language papers on general acoustics topics. The submissions can be found here. In presenting these general topics, authors reflect on the past, look towards the future, and explain their subject's overall importance to science and the larger world.
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ACOUSTICS
A
Century of Hearing Research by Brian Moore, Neal Viemeister, and William
Yost
Hearing
Loss by Sandra Gordon-Salant and Marjorie Leek
Hearing
Aids by Harry Levitt
NOISE
The
Missing Leg For A Three-Legged Stool: Why All Benefit From The New National
Standard For Classroom Acoustics by David Lubman, Peggy Nelson, and
Lou Sutherland
Active Noise Control by Ken Cunefare
History of Acoustical Standards in the Past Eighty Years by Tony Embleton,
Paul Schomer and Susan Blaeser
PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS
A
Brief Description of Thermoacoustics by Greg Swift