A short celebration of our colleague and friend Eric Stedfeld, whose 23-year tenure at DLTS ends today.
Letters to the Sugar Plum Fairy
We have just published the finding aid for the Joe Campbell Collection of Dorothy Dean Letters; these objects were photographed by the members of our Imaging Lab.
Wrecked Beach to Recognized Speech: AI Transcription Correction
It’s an oft-repeated anecdote that when demonstrating the first vocoders (the data compression of audio signals containing speech and voice), Manfred Shcroeder, a German physicist for Bell Laboratories, noted that the machines and the people hearing them repeatedly tangled themselves…