Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016
Interview with Leo Beranek, [videorecording] recorded by Joseph Leary; 1998 April 14.
Topics discussed on Tape 1 include Beranek's early career at MIT; the formation of Bolt, Beranek and Newman and its early projects in architectural acoustics and engineering, and noise control; the company's relationship to the Lincoln Laboratory and Joseph Licklider, and the birth of digital computing; the formation of ARPANet, predecessor of the Internet. On Tape 2 Beranek talks about his later work with BBN in Europe; talks about concert halls and architectural acoustics; answers various questions.
Acoustician and authority on acoustical science. Co-founder of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc. of Cambridge, MA; president 1953-1969, director 1953-1983. Taught at Harvard, 1940-1946; Associate Professor of Communication Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947-1959, and lecturer, 1959-1981. Fellow in American Physical Society, Acoustical Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Audio Engineering Society. Contributions in the fields of physical acoustics, psychoacoustics, architectural acoustics, electroacoustics, systems research and noise control.
Beranek, Leo L. (Leo Leroy), 1914-2016
Bolt, Richard H.
Licklider, J.C.R.
Newman, Robert B. (Robert Bradford), 1917-1983.
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Lincoln Laboratory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Acoustical engineering.
Architectural acoustics.
ARPANET (Computer network).
Computers -- History.
Internet (Computer network).
Noise control -- History.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Leary, Joseph, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA