IEEE Kilby Medal awarded

Thomas G. Stockham, professor emeritus of the electrical engineering and computer science department at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, recently received the 1998 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for pioneering the field of digital audio processing.

The award, first presented last year, is sponsored by Texas Instruments in honor of the inventor of the integrated circuit. It includes a gold medal, bronze replica and a $10,000 honorarium.

Stockham has received numerous teaching and technical awards, including the first Technical Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for innovations that profoundly affected recording and preservation technology and established him as "the father of digital recording." His company, Soundstream Inc., developed the first digital audio-tape recorder. He also directed the development of high-speed, random-access, computer-based audio recording and editing technology, for which he received an Emmy in 1987-88 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.