This book explores the life and scientific legacy of Manfred
Schroeder through personal reflections, scientific essays and
Schroeder s own memoirs. Reflecting the wide range of Schroeder s
activities, the first part of the book contains thirteen articles
written by his colleagues and former students. Topics discussed
include his early, pioneering contributions to the understanding of
statistical room acoustics and to the measurement of reverberation
time; his introduction of digital signal processing methods into
acoustics; his use of ray tracing methods to study sound decay in
rooms and his achievements in echo and feedback suppression and in
noise reduction. Other chapters cover his seminal research in
speech processing including the use of predictive coding to reduce
audio bandwidth which led to various code-excited linear prediction
schemes, today used extensively for speech coding. Several chapters
discuss Schroeder s work in low-peak factor signals, number theory,
and maximum-length sequences with key applications in hearing
research, diffraction gratings, artificial reverberators and
de-correlation techniques for enhancing subjective envelopment in
surround sound. In style, the articles range from truly scientific
to conversationally personal. In all contributions, the
relationship between the current research presented and Manfred
Schroeder s own fields of interest is, in general, evident. The
second part of the book consists of Schroeder s own memoirs,
written over the final decade of his life. These recollections shed
light on many aspects not only of Schroeder s life but also on that
of many of his colleagues, friends and contemporaries. They portray
political, social and scientific events over a period that extends
from pre-war to the present. These memoirs, written in an
inimitable and witty style, are full of information, entertaining
and fun to read, providing key insight into the life and work of
one of the greatest acousticians of the 20th century."
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