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The AES 111th Convention took place in New York November 30—December 3,postponed from the original September dates due to the tragic events of September 11.

Faced with the decision of carrying on as planned, rescheduling, or canceling the con-vention, Executive Director Roger Furness, together with the Executive Committee, theheadquarters staff, and the 111th Convention Committee came to the conclusion thatpostponement was by far the best option.

Of course, there was a huge amount of work involved in the rescheduling. ConventionChair Bill Allen and his committee put in an outstanding effort during those two and ahalf months to hold the program together. The headquarters staff supported and fortifiedthe efforts of the convention committee. But no one was sure what would come of theseefforts. Would the exhibitors, the papers authors, and workshops and special events par-ticipants be able to keep their original commitments to participate?

The audio industry came together to show its commitmentto the AES and its support for New York. The AES 111thConvention was a resounding success. Although the exhibitwas somewhat smaller, the technical sessions were virtuallythe same as originally planned. Many thought it was as suc-cessful as previous conventions, with added enthusiasm andfriendliness. Exhibitors were glad they participated and

pleased to see so many eager, business-oriented visitors. Eventhe weather cooperated, with warm temperatures more likeNew York in early fall.

OPENING CEREMONY AND AWARDSOpening the 111th Convention, Executive Director RogerFurness welcomed delegates to New York. The reschedul- ➥

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OPENING CEREMONIES AND AWOPENING CEREMONIES AND AW ARDSARDS

Bill Allen, 111thConvention chair

Roger Furness, AESexecutive director

Roy Pritts, AES president

Floyd Toole, 111thkeynote speaker

David Robinsonannounces awardwinners in place ofAwards CommitteeChair Marina Bosi,who was unable toattend.

Pat Macdonald, executive editor of the AES Journal,receives honorary membership from Roy Pritts.

Citation Award recipients: clockwisefrom top right, Elizabeth Cohen, Jeremy

Cooperstock, Zach Settel, WieslawWoszczyk, and Aoxiang Xu

ing had been a huge challenge for all, hesaid. AES President, Roy Pritts noted thehealth of the Society worldwide and re-ported an excellent and active year in-cluding the 50th anniversary of theJapan section and three internationalconferences—the 18th, Audio for Infor-mation Appliances; the 19th, SurroundSound: Techniques, Technology, andPerception; and the 20th, Archiving,Restoration, and New Methods ofRecording. Convention Chair Bill Allenextended his warmest thanks to the con-vention committee for their extendedcommitment to the event. He said it wasa tribute to their dedication and energythat the convention was so complete.Allen also offered particular praise tothe AES Headquarters staff for theirsterling work.

Standing in for Awards CommitteeChair Marina Bosi, David Robinson hadthe pleasure and privilege of announcingan Honorary Membership for PatriciaM. Macdonald, executive editor of theAES Journal. Honorary Membership isa membership grade to which only avery few members are elected and is re-served for those of outstanding reputeand eminence in the science of audio en-gineering or its allied arts. Pat Macdon-ald has been associated with the AESJournal since 1969, becoming associateeditor in 1974, managing editor in 1976,senior editor in 1989, and executive edi-tor in 1992. Her careful guidance andwisdom have been appreciated by nu-merous members of the Society. Accept-ing her award with gratitude, she paidtribute to her years of association withthe Society and those with whom shehad the pleasure of working.

Fellowships are the second highestgrade of membership in the Society afterHonorary Member. They are awarded tomembers who have rendered conspicu-ous service or are recognized to havemade a valuable contribution to the ad-vancement in or the dissemination ofknowledge of audio engineering or inthe promotion of its application in prac-tice. Fellowships were awarded to Mar-tin Dietz for outstanding work in the ad-vancement of audio coding; WesleyDooley for significant contributions torecording technology; Subir Pramanikfor significant contributions to the AESover a number of years; and JunichiYoshio for significant contributions

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Doug Cook (left) and Bob Moses receiving Board of Governors Awards

Fellowship Awards recipients:clockwise from top left, Martin Dietz,Wesley Dooley, Subir Pramanik, andJunichi Yoshio

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to development and standardization ofDVD technology.

Citations were presented to a groupwho pioneered the technology enablingcollaborative multichannel performanceover the broadband Internet: ElizabethCohen, Jeremy Cooperstock, Zack Set-tel, Stephen Spackman, WieslawWoszczyk, and Aoxiang Zu.

Board of Governors Awards, for out-standing contributions to the Audio En-gineering Society, were presented toDoug Cook for cochairing the AES107th Convention in New York and BobMoses for chairing the AES 18th Inter-national Conference in San Francisco.

Stepping in on relatively short noticeto present the keynote speech at theopening ceremony, Floyd Toole capti-vated a capacity audience with his talk “Audio Engineer-ing—Science in the Service of Art.” In his wide-rangingpresentation he related the importance of conveying theartistic intentions of the creator of audio art to the percep-tions of the listener, using persuasive parallels with theworld of visual art. Art, he asserted, was the reason thatmany were motivated to get into the audio business in thefirst place. He compared measurements and listeners’ judg-ments of audio products, particularly loudspeakers, high-lighting some suspect products (not named) that receivedgood reviews in the press but not in double-blindlistening tests and measurements. He emphasizedhis point that the word “professional” does not nec-essarily mean anything when it comes to quality,showing examples of professional monitor re-sponses that were quite horrifying and worse thanthose of many consumer devices. “We have thescience,” he concluded, “we need to teach it morewidely and apply it more diligently.”

Many delegates gathered on the first evening ofthe convention for the AES Party at the Sony Won-der Technology Lab, where they were able to meetfriends, sample the buffet and beverages, and take ashort tour around the Wonder Technology Lab.During the tour visitors logged in using a personal-ized card and could experience the range of techni-

cal wizardry created by Sony for theworld of multimedia entertainment andcommunications.

EXHIBITION“A quality audience” was how most ex-hibitors described the steady flow of in-terested audio professionals at the JavitsCenter for the convention. Time to spendtalking to important clients and lowernoise levels than usual resulted in a con-vivial atmosphere on the show floor,with plenty of innovative products tospark the interest of delegates. The fol-lowing is a small selection of the manyhighlights from the exhibition. See page1210 for the complete list of exhibitors.

Latest in a long line of successful products, Solid StateLogic’s MT Production (MTP) digital console was unveiled,targeting the broadcasting and mobile-production marketsegments. Based on SSL’s established MT Plus in-line digi-tal console, this compact mixer includes surround capabili-ties and full-reset automation. Midas debuted its Legend3000 console, designed as a semi-modular live productionsystem and intended to survive the rigors of a life on theroad as well as being easy to service. Digital equalizers fromSony’s Oxford mixer were shown in a new plug-in format.

On the microphone front, some old favorites have been re-vived in modern form. AKG, for example, showed a reworked


Speaking atannual businessmeeting of AES:clockwise fromabove, RonStreicher,secretary; ChrisFreitag, Board ofTellers chair; andMarshall Buck,treasurer

At “Digital Broadcasting in the U.S.,” from left, moderator David Bialik, and presenters Mark Kalman, JeffreyRiedmiller, Ralph Justus, Gregory Forbes, David Layer, and Deepen Sinha

Presenters at “The History of Signal Processing,” from left, Barry Blesser,Emil Torick, Bishnu Atal, and Ray Dolby

version of its classic C451 model, the C451B, together withthe respected CK1 capsule that had been modeled on some ofthe best examples of CK1 capsules collected from engineersaround the world. Modern electronics complement this inter-pretation of the microphone, leading to improved audio perfor-mance while retaining the original acoustic qualities. AudioTechnica commemorated the 10th anniversary of its AT4033cardioid capacitor microphone with a special edition incorpo-rating a reengineered heavy-duty shock mount, dust cover, andwooden case. Continuing the theme of special editions, ADKalso celebrated 3 years in business with a commemorative edi-tion Area 51 tube microphone, eachcontaining a hand-selectedGE6072A tube. At the other end ofthe evolutionary spectrum, Neu-mann was sporting its Solution-Ddigital microphone with an interfaceconforming to the newly establishedAES42-2001 standard for remotecontrol and audio communicationswith microphones.

Supporting its range of wirelessmicrophone products, Sonyshowed a new portable diversity re-ceiver, the WRR-861B, designed

with dual-power capability and with rugged characteristicsintended for use in the field with broadcast and electronicproduction applications. Sennheiser, also renowned for itsRF microphones, introduced a miniature plug-on transmitter,the SKP30, which can turn any wired microphone into awireless microphone. Battery powered and capable of beingconnected directly to the output jack of passive or phantom-powered microphones, this device neatly complements exist-ing Sennheiser wireless receiver installations.

Looking to transducers at the other end of the signal chain,Earthworks revealed its newly developed ∑6.2 precision

soundfield reproduction system.This unusually styled loudspeakerhas a wide frequency response andprecise time response that is said tobe important for the playback of 96-kHz recordings. Also of consider-able interest was Digigram’s Ether-Speaker interface, which is based onEthernet technology and designed toconnect a digital audio source toloudspeakers, with up to 32 chan-nels of 24-bit audio and control in-formation. Loudspeaker manufac-turer ATC aroused considerable ➥


111th exhibitors reported a steady flow of serious,business-oriented visitors.

At Sony Wonder party Friday night, clockwise from above:musical group The Waz; guests enjoying buffet; Steve Sohma

(left), Yuko Yoshio, and Fellowship Awardee Junichi Yoshi.

Left, 111th technical sessions drew attentive crowds; right, author John Vanderkooy making presentation.

interest with its new Active 10 Pro model designed for stereoor multichannel applications in small and medium-sized stu-dios. This active loudspeaker is also suitable for near-fieldmonitoring in larger rooms and is designed with a novel, solidbody, as well as on-board parametric controls for equalization.

High-resolution audio continues to march on, fueled bythe increasing consumer availability of DVD-Audio andSACD equipment. Sony and Philips had a large stand dedi-cated to the growing range of DSD production and postpro-duction equipment, including the new Tascam DS-D98 mul-titrack recorder that can be configured to record either twochannels of DSD or a number of channels of conventionalPCM between 44.1 and 192 kHz. SADiE, celebrating its10th anniversary at the convention, also showed new fea-tures for its DVD-Audio Direct authoring system.

Driving bit rates in the other direction, Dolby Labsdemonstrated its new Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) con-sumer encoder, intended for licensing in products such ashard-disk jukeboxes, Internet music systems, and portablerecorders. AAC, a part of the MPEG-2 and -4 standards, isincreasingly incorporated into Internet-based audio sys-tems. For instance, Liquid Audio announced that it wouldbe implementing the technology in its Liquid Player soft-ware next year.

PAPERSWith the assistance of members of the AES Technical Coun-cil and others during the review process, Papers Chair Jim

Johnston brought together a wide range of important techni-cal papers for presentation at the 111th Convention. The ma-jority of authors or coauthors were present in New York todeliver their papers. They demonstrated the diverse researchin audio engineering being undertaken at the present timethroughout the world.

Papers sessions covered a typical selection of topics, di-vided into sessions on loudspeakers, spatial and multichan-nel audio, mobile and Internet audio, psychoacoustics andaudio testing, instrumentation and measurement, micro-phones, signal processing, high-resolution audio, sound re-inforcement, coding, and production and studio issues. Anumber of poster presentations were also given. A completesummary of papers begins on page 1213 of this issue of theJournal.

Of particular interest were a couple of papers on reverber-ation, aiming to improve understanding of this always inter-esting topic. Matti Karjalainen and Hanna Järveläinen ofHelsinki University of Technology described a perceptualmodeling approach to reveal the underlying principles oflate reverberation perception, concentrating on the modaldensity required for high-quality results. In a discursive pa-per based on similar themes to his recent paper in the AESJournal, Barry Blesser gave a number of insights into thedifficulties associated with modeling and measuring rever-berant characteristics satisfactorily. Time variance and otherstatistical uncertainties in room behavior made conventionalmeasurements of impulse responses difficult to interpret.


Bill Allen (left), 111th chair, and Markus Erne, editor ofnew AES tutorial CD-ROM—Perceptual Audio Coders

Lou Manno, technical tours chairIrv Joel, volunteers coordinator, also helped organizeWhen Vinyl Ruled exhibit.

Jim Johnston (left), papers chair, and WieslawWoszczyk, Technical Council chair

Doug Cook,workshopscochair

Blesser pointed out the importance of familiarity withsignals if small inconsistencies or quality defectswere to be detected. Listeners gradually got used tohearing small differences in signals that they were atfirst unaware of.

Nick Zacharov and colleagues from Finland pre-sented a number of papers based on description andpreference mapping of sound stimuli, both in spatialaudio and mobile communications, bringing to the audiofield ideas about sensory evaluation that have previouslybeen used more commonly in other fields of human science.These papers showed ways in which formal preference map-ping could be related to descriptive and physical characteris-tics required of signals in an attempt to optimize consumerpreference. Francis Rumsey presented a paper with AmberNaqvi of the University of Surrey concerned with the designand modeling of an active listening room, designed to simu-late alternative acoustic environments for subjective evalua-tion within a standard ITU-R listening room. The early re-flection characteristics of the room are modified by use ofactive deflector panels based on DML technology, affectingthe middle- to high-frequency region while leaving the ex-isting low-frequency characteristics of the room intact.

The session on Internet audio and networking included anumber of interesting papers on the evolving protocols formanaging content and rights in sound program distribution.Among the topics were papers on copyright protection,MPEG 7, and MPEG 21. MPEG 7 concentrates mainly ➥


From left, David Bialik, special events chair, Roger Furness,AES executive director, and Jim Anderson, facilities chair

Claudia Koal, musicchair

Marla Egan,production coordinator

Lisa Roy, Platinum Series chair, with friends, from left, Mr. Bonzai,Elliot Scheiner, and Atsunori Abe

Don Plunkett,convention secretary

Don Puluse,EducationCommitteechair

We Thank…In the wake of events of September 11,the 111th Committee deserves specialthanks for their extended commitment,

which produced an outstandingconvention.

Bill Allenchair

Jim Johnstonpapers chair

Doug Cook Barbara Elaworkshops cochairs

David Bialikspecial events chair

Lisa RoyPlatinum Series chair

Don Puluseeducation events chair

Jim Andersonfacilities chair

Lou Mannotechnical tours chair

Claudia Koalmusic chair

Don Plunkettconvention secretary

Irv Joelvolunteers coordinator

on content descriptionand identification,whereas MPEG 21 isconcerned primarily witha multimedia frameworkfor transparent and aug-mented use of multime-dia resources across the wide range of networks and devicesused by different communities. As described by staff fromGermany’s Fraunhofer Institute, it is designed to address as-pects such as security, transaction handling, and interoper-ability that are vital for electronic commerce.

WORKSHOPSDoug Cook and Barbara Ela worked hard to coordinate animpressive selection of workshops, covering the key top-ics of concern to audio professionals. Always well attend-ed and educational in nature, these sessions are also avail-able on cassette tapes for those unable to attend. Amongthe most popular workshops at the 111th was Myths inAudio, chaired by Malcolm Hawksford. A panel of ex-perts including James Angus, Stanley Lipshitz, and DerkReefman addressed some of the more juicy and controver-sial topics that are commonly surrounded by mystery andmyth. These include the issue of bandwidth above 20 kHzand DSD versus conventional PCM formats for coding anddelivery of high-quality audio.

Other popular workshops wereSmall Room Acoustics chaired byJan Voetmann, Digital Audio Sig-nal Processing—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly chairedby Stanley Lipshitz, and Microphones: What is Vintage?chaired by Karl Winkler. Most of these successful work-shops courted some area of controversy, where the scien-tific aspects of sound recording and reproduction meetthose opinions governed more by trend and fashion. Thereconciliation of differing points of view is clearly a majorchallenge and produced some raucous debates.

A panel of researchers in the field of psychological andphysical evaluation of surround sound reproduction sur-veyed a range of testing methods that could be adopted; theyincluded a review of previous work in concert hall acous-tics. With the range of algorithms, techniques, and systemsfor spatial-reproduction enhancement now in existence, thepanel tried to find reliable ways to discover the perceptualfactors of importance and the physical variables to whichthey might relate. User preference mapping was also dis-


Providing nonstop music at 111th, over 30 performers played atSongwriters Showcase, including Emmy-nominated actor DominicChianese (bottom, right), who plays Uncle Junior on the Sopranos.

Platinum Record Artists and Producers Series:from left, Mike Clink, George Massenburg, RussTitelman, Howard Massey, Chuck Ainlay, andTony Visconti

13th Annual Grammy Recording Soundtable:from left, Jimmy Douglass, Elliot Scheiner, andChuck Ainlay

cussed. Some controver-sy was aroused by thequestion of whether ex-perts have a right to im-pose their own construc-tion of perception onsubjects in listening tests,or whether one should al-low subjects to chooseattributes that are mean-ingful to them. Further-more, what is an expertin a listening test—arenowned golden ears ora subject trained in theparticular requirements of the test at hand?

The Metadata workshop dealt with the thorny issues ofwhat descriptive and logging data should accompany audioprogram material; it also reviewed standardization initia-tives worldwide. The issues of cross-cultural and linguisticdifficulties in dealing with this matter were highlighted. Fur-ther workshops included The Changing Role of the Master-ing Engineer, Automotive Audio, Project Studio Mainte-nance, Audio for Information Appliances, Perceptual

Evaluation of High-Resolution Audio, Guerrilla AcousticsIII, Networking for Local- and Wide-Area Production, Au-dio for Games, Digital Audio Workstations, Watermarksand Fingerprints, and The Role of Digital in Live Sound.

For those interested in venturing further afield, a series oftechnical tours was arranged by Lou Manno. These includedtours of recording and mastering studios such as Clinton,Masterdisk, Sony, Sear Sound, Bennett, and the Hit Factory;research facilities including AT&T Labs and Ralph Glas-


From left, Manfred Schroeder, who gaveRichard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture at 111th,receives Technical Council citation from ViceChairs Robert Schulein and Jürgen Herre, andChair Wieslaw Woszczyk.

At Heyser reception, Manfred Schroeder, secondfrom right, talks with, from left, Kees Immink,Stanley Lipshitz, and John Vanderkooy.

When Vinyl Ruled exhibit drew standing-room-only crowdsthroughout 111th.

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gal’s Ambiophonics Institute; Edison National Historic Site;Europadisc pressing plant; and broadcasting centers such asThirteen NY and CBS/Westwood One.

SPECIAL EVENTSThe Distinguished Heyser Memorial lecturer at the 111thConvention was none other than Manfred Schroeder, hold-er of 45 U.S. patents in speech and signal processing andother fields. Schroeder’s lecture “The Unreasonable Effec-tiveness of Mathematics in Audio” concentrated on the ar-eas of audio in which he had worked that showed extraor-dinary susceptibility to the application of number theoryand other branches of mathematics. In particular he em-phasized the use of maximum-length sequences, quadraticresidue diffusers, the measurement of reverberation timeby reverse integration, and the statistics of reverberantsound fields. In highly entertaining style, Schroeder gavedelegates a short history of his impressive career that in-cluded time as a professor of physics at Göttingen, a direc-tor of research at AT&T Bell Labs, and a founding mem-ber of IRCAM in Paris.

The When Vinyl Ruled exhibit was organized by JohnChester and Irv Joel with help from other members of theAES Historical Committee. This interactive exhibit of vin-tage studio equipment and tapes brought back to life theearly years of stereo recording. Luminaries such as David

Greene, George Massenburg, Eddie Kramer, Bob Ludwig,Walter Sear, Judy Sherman, and Joe Tarsia lent their sup-port with guest presentations. They delivered as advertisedin the convention program, “these bits are tangible, you cansee them, touch them, even catch a heady whiff of oxidebinder and fresh-cut lacquer chip. It will leave you yearningfor a studio with soul, from the days when vinyl ruled!”

Throughout the four days of the convention delegates en-joyed the music of the Songwriters Showcase, organized byClaudia Koal and cosponsored by Steinway. Over twodozen international recording artists presented an eclecticrange of musical genres.

In contrast to the highly artistic nature of the SongwritersShowcase, proving that the AES has something for every-one, Jim Johnston organized a special event on the historyof signal processing. Ray Dolby started by covering audiohistory from Thomas Edison to the present day. BishnuAtal dealt with speech and telecommunications, concludingthat the telecommunications revolution had only just begunand that the world would change substantially in the com-ing years in this area. Barry Blesser dealt with digital audioin engaging fashion, and Emil Torick rounded off the pro-ceedings with a summary of the history in broadcasting.

David Bialik chaired a panel of broadcast engineers whoaddressed the move to digital transmission of television andradio programs, with an emphasis on familiarizing audio


111th meetings: 1. Conference Policy Committeemeeting: from left, Committee Chair Søren Bech;Theresa Leonard, chair of planned multichannel soundconference in Banff, Canada, in 2003; Francis Rumsey,19th Conference vice chair; and Ron Streicher, AESsecretary; 2. Meeting of Women in Audio Committeeattracted large, diverse crowd; 3. Chair Jay McKnightpresides at meeting of Historical Committee; 4.Technical Council meeting: from left, Roy Pritts, AESpresident; Bob Schulein, Technical Council vice chair;Chair Wieslaw Woszczyk; and Jürgen Herre, vice chair;5. John Nunn (left), Standards Committee chair, andMark Yonge, Standards manager.

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engineers with the principles and technologies involved.Always popular at conventions and no exception this

time, the 13th Annual Grammy Recording Soundtable,moderated by Ed Cherney, packed the hall. The NationalAssociation of Recording Arts and Sciences presented Jim-my Douglass, Tony Maserati, Elliot Scheiner, Dave Way,and Chuck Ainlay to discuss the most critical, relevant is-sues and concerns facing the recording community. To thedelight of all present they played examples from theirdiscographies and answered numerous questions from thefloor.

Chaired by Howard Massey, the Platinum Artists andProducers Series presented a session entitled “The Chal-lenges Ahead,” addressing issues such as high-resolutionaudio, 5.1 surround sound, and the impact of emergingstandards and new media. These themes were also echoedin the SPARS Business Panel entitled “Surviving the Tech-nological Upgrade Path—Cases and Repercussions.” Bothsessions were particularly concerned with how businessesand individuals can and should adapt to changing technolo-gy and practices.

Owing to the unfortunate demise of the main blower onthe gallery organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Graham Blythwas obliged to modify his program on short notice to per-form a recital on the smaller chancel organ. As Grahamsaid in his introduction: “no way is it a concert instru-ment…so I had to delete several items from the originalprogram. St. Patrick’s Cathedral is still wonderful.” Dele-gates, and a milling throng of tourists, enjoyed Graham’srenditions of works such as Handel’s Arrival of the Queenof Sheba and Franck’s Chorale No. 3.

STUDENT EVENTSLed by AES Education Committee Chair Don Puluse, apacked program of events for students and educators wasoffered in parallel to the other sessions. These included arecording competition; the Student Delegate Assembly ledby Matthew Steinmetz and Neil Okonak; a session on men-toring; a student mixer; an educators forum; and the now-traditional Education Fair. An impromptu tutorial on sur-round sound mixing was also staged by David Griesingerfor students and other interested parties. Student member-ship makes up about 15% of overall AES membership andthe provision for their needs at conventions has graduallyrisen over the years to the thriving level witnessed here atthe 111th.

COMMITTEE MEETINGSDuring the convention, meetings of the AES TechnicalCommittees took place at appropriate junctures, followingrelevant papers or workshop sessions. These committeesfollow trends in audio technology and techniques, providingexpertise to the Society in key areas, organizing events suchas conferences and workshops, and publishing authoritativetechnical documents for use by the audio community. Thenew tutorial CD-ROM, Perceptual Audio Coders: What toListen For, was introduced at the 111th.

AES standards groups met throughout the convention,under the oversight of the chair of the Standards Commit-tee, John Nunn. AES standards are now under the new ad-ministration of Standards Manager Mark Yonge, who takesover after the long-standing service of Daniel Queen. Markhad his first full induction into the job at this convention. Ina new initiative designed to make AES standards morewidely available, it is now possible to download a singlecopy of any standard free of charge from www.aes.org, adevelopment welcomed by many.

A full program of AES committee meetings also tookplace before, during, and after the convention, including theBoard of Governors meeting on Tuesday, at which outgo-ing President Roy Pritts welcomed the incoming president,Garry Margolis, and announced the president-elect, KeesImmink. Earlier this year voting for candidates was possi-ble for the first time by means of the Internet.

During the Society’s Annual Business Meeting, Secre-tary Ron Streicher was pleased to announce that member-ship had stabilized in the last year and had risen slightly.Marshall Buck, the Society’s treasurer, announced that thefinances of the AES were in good shape and were suffi-ciently robust to weather occasional downturns.

Even though it had to be postponed from September to earlyDecember, the AES 111th Convention was an unqualified suc-cess. All who attended contributed to the continuing success ofthe society and to the spirit and resiliency of New York City.

The AES 112th Convention will be in Munich, Germany,May 10–13, 2002. For details on all upcoming events visitthe AES website at www.aes.org.


At elections for student officers, from left, Dell Harris, NeilOkonak, Education Committee Chair Don Puluse, PatriciaAbdenour, Werner de Bruijn, Blaise Chabanis, and Scott Cannon

Above, Education Fair


Board of Governors MeetsKarl-Otto Bäder, Europe Central Region vice presidentand incoming governor

Chris Freitag, Board of Tellers chair

Jim Anderson, incoming USA/Canada Eastern Region vicepresident; Russ Hamm, USA/Canada Eastern Region vicepresident; Jay McKnight, Historical Committee chair

Francis Rumsey, Membership/Admissions Committeechair; Søren Bech, Conference Policy Committee chairand incoming Europe Northern Region vice president;Wieslaw Woszczyk, Technical Council chair;

Ron Streicher, secretary; Roy Pritts, president

David Robinson, past president and NominationsCommittee chair; Juergen Wahl, governor; Markus Erne,incoming Europe Central Region vice president

Bob Moses, governor and incoming USA/Canada WesternRegion vice president; James Kaiser, USA/Canada CentralRegion vice president; Mark Yonge, standards manager

Roger Furness, executive director; Theresa Leonard,governor; Robbin Gheesling, Women in AudioCommittee vice chair

Garry Margolis, president elect, Laws and ResolutionCommittee chair, and incoming Future DirectionsCommittee chair

Don Puluse, Education Committee chair; MercedesOnorato, incoming Latin American Region vice president

Neil Gilchrist, governor; Bob Sherwood, financial advisor;Jay Fouts, legal counsel; Subir Pramanik, governor andRegions and Sections Committee chair

Martin Wöhr, 112th Convention chair; Bill Allen, 111thConvention chair

Irina Aldoshina, governor; Nancy Byers-Teague,USA/Canada Western Region vice president

Kees Immink, Europe Northern Region vice presidentand incoming president elect; Richard Small,Publications Policy Committee chair; Daniel vonRecklinghausen, editor

Marshall Buck, treasurer, Convention PolicyCommittee chair, and Finance Committee chair;John Nunn, Standards Committee chair

Louis Fielder, Future Directions Committee chair;Nick Zacharov, governor

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