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David holds a B.E.E. (1960) and Ph.D. (1966) degree in applied physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In 1968, after spending two years as a Research Associate at the Electron-Physics Institute of Chalmers Technical University in Gothenberg, Sweden, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories first working in the Mechanics Research Department. He moved to Acoustics Research as a supervisor in 1975 and became head of that department in 1990. In 1995 he spent about 6 months in AT&T Business Communications Services on a rotational assignment as division manager, Global Services, Enhanced Voice Product Management. There he was responsible for InfoWorx, Advanced Transaction Processing, advanced voice platforms and SDN mobility features. In early 1996 he joined AT&T Labs Research as division manager of Speech Processing Software and Technology. In 1998 he became Speech and Image Processing Services Vice President, where he had overall responsibility for research in speech recognition, speaker recognition, speech understanding, and spoken language translation. He also helped foster new technologies in multimodal interfaces and in image and video processing. In addition, he led the creation of business development and technical agreements with leading speech and image technology vendors to forward these technologies. David retired from AT&T in late 2000. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Senior Member of the IEEE with about 40 published papers and 9 patents. | 