Audio Engineering Society
Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. The membership largely comprises engineers developing devices or products for audio, as well as persons working in audio content production, but also includes acousticians, audiologists, academics, and other disciplines related to audio. The AES is the only world-wide professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology.
The organisation develops, reviews and publishes engineering standards for the audio and related media industries, and produces the AES Conventions, which are held twice a year alternating between Europe and the USA. The AES and individual regional or national "Sections" also hold AES Conferences on different topics during the year.
The AES publishes a peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES).
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[edit] History
The idea of a society dedicated solely to audio engineering had been discussed for some time before the first meeting, but was first proposed in print in a letter by Frank E. Sherry, of Victoria, Texas, in the December 1947 issue of the magazine Audio Engineering. A New York engineer, C.J. LeBel, then published a letter in response the following month asking for interested persons to contact him.
What came to be the AES was formed at an organizational meeting at RCA Victor Studios in New York City on February 17, 1948. Its first membership meeting followed on March 11, drawing primarily from the area's broadcast and recording operations. The guest speaker at the first meeting was Harry F. Olson, a prominent engineer and scientist at RCA and author of Acoustical Engineering.
From its New York beginnings the AES grew world-wide and as of 31 October 2010 comprised 14215 members, 4306 of whom are classified as students.
[edit] AES Standards
The AES publishes a number of standards on the subject of both analog and digital audio recording, transmission, and/or reproduction. Notable standards include:
- AES3 (also commonly known as AES/EBU) for digital audio interconnection
- AES10 (also commonly known as MADI) for multichannel digital audio interconnection
- AES11 for digital audio synchronization
- AES47 for sending AES3 digital audio data over Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks.
- AES48 on interconnections; grounding and EMC practices; and shields of connectors in audio equipment containing active circuitry.
- AES53 for assigning absolute times to the time markers provided by AES47.
[edit] AES Gold Medal recipients
The AES Gold Medal is the Society's highest honor, and given in recognition of outstanding achievements, sustained over a period of years, in the field of Audio Engineering. The award was established in 1971; it was formerly known as the John H. Potts Memorial Award.[1]
[edit] Awardees in chronological order
[edit] Officers and Key Staff
President: Jim Kaiser
President-Elect: Jan Abildgaard Pedersen
Past President: Diemer de Vries
Treasurer: Garry Margolis
Secretary: Bob Lee
Vice President Eastern Region US & Canada: Robert Breen
Vice President Central Region US & Canada: Frank Wells
Vice President Western Region US & Canada: Sean Olive
Vice President Latin America Region: Joel Brito
Vice President Northern Region Europe: Ville Pulkki
Vice President Central Region Europe: Bozena Kostek
Vice President Southern Region Europe: Antonio Oliveira
Vice President International Region: Kimio Hamasaki
Governors: Jim Anderson, Peter Cook, David Josephson, Véronique Larcher, Bob Moses, David Murphy, Bruce C. Olson, Agnieszka Roginska
Executive Director: Roger K. Furness
Webmaster: Steve Johnson
Controller: Christine Carleo
Editor, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society: John Vanderkooy
Chair, 124th AES Convention (held May 2008, Amsterdam): Peter Swarte
Co-chairs, 125th AES Convention (held October 2008, San Francisco): John Strawn and Valerie Tyler
Chair, 126th AES Convention (held May 2009, Munich): Martin Wöhr
Chair, 127th AES Convention (held October 2009, New York): Agnieszka Roginska
Chair, 128th AES Convention (held May 2010, London): Dr Joshua Reiss
Co-chairs, 129th AES Convention (held November 2010, San Francisco): Valerie Tyler and Jim McTigue
Chair, 130th AES Convention (to be held May 2011, London): Peter Mapp
[edit] British Section
The AES British section, which is the largest outside the US, issues a monthly newsletter and holds regular lectures, usually in London, with occasional visits to studios and other places of interest [1]. Lectures, which are often on topics of topical interest to audio enthusiasts are usually recorded, with past lectures available to all as free MP3 downloads, sometimes with accompanying slides in PDF format [2].
[edit] See also
- Acoustical Society of America
- Institute of Acoustics
- Academic Programs in Acoustics
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Institute of Radio Engineers
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- Society of Broadcast Engineers
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- TEC Awards; sponsored annually by Mix Foundation and awarded during the Fall AES convention.
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