Perry Cook named Guggenheim Fellow

Perry R. Cook, associate professor of computer science (also jointly appointed in music), has received a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Dr. Cook's fellowship project will be research for a new book on the topic of "Technology and Vocal Expression," exploring the interaction and influence of technology on the expressive human voice.

The research will take a broad definition of technology as "any intentionally fashioned tool or technique," and it will look at topics as varied as megaphones, microphones, sound recording, loudspeakers, radio, design of vocal performance spaces (from ancient Greek and Roman theaters to modern opera houses), surgery and drugs, telecommunications, and the computer.

Dr. Cook was one of 184 people chosen by the Guggenheim Foundation from among 3,200 artists, scholars, and scientists. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Best paper award to Professor Liu

Bede Liu, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, received the 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems CSVT Transactions Best Paper Award. This award, with Peng Yin *02, A. Vetro, and H. Sun, is Professor Liu's third best paper award since 1992. The paper, titled "Drift Compensation for Reduced Spatial Resolution Transcoding," appeared in the November 2002 issue of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Previously, Professor Liu won this award with Andre Zaccarin *91 in 1992, and again with Boon Lock Yeo *96 in 1994.