Mr. Mathews directed the Acoustical and Behavioral Research Center at Bell
Laboratories from 1962 to 1985. This laboratory carried out research in
speech communication, visual communication, human memory and learning,
programmed instruction, analysis of subjective opinions, physical acoustics,
and industrial robotics.
Mr. Mathews' personal research is concerned with sound and music synthesis
with digital computers and with the application of computers to areas in which
man-machine interactions are critical. He developed a program (Music V) for
the direct digital synthesis of sounds and a program (Groove) for the
computer control of a sound synthesizer. Music V and its successors are now
widely used in the United States and Europe. His past research included
development of computer methods for speech processing, studies of human
speech production, studies of auditory masking, and the invention of
techniques for computer drawing of typography. He is currently investigating
the effect of resonances on sound quality.
He was Scientific Advisor to the Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris, and is currently Professor of Music
(Research) at Stanford University. He holds a Silver Medal in Musical
Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America, and the Chevalier dan
l'order des Arts et Lettres, Republique Francaise.
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