Grants and Patents

Principal Grants and Awards:

2002
Co-leader with Dave Tolchinsky of Cross School Initiative “Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Sound Design.” Funded at $175,000 for three years.

1987
Co-investigator with Richard Ashley and Gary Greenberg: Grant proposal entitled “Redesigning the Content and Sequence of Instruction in Music Theory” from the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Dept. of Education, $147,000.

Supplemental grant from the System Development Foundation to continue researchinto “spatial reverberation” process. $299,910.

1984
Grant from the System Development Foundation for research described in proposal “SpatialReverberation: Completing Our Simulation of Spatial Hearing Cues in Natural Environments.” $892,835.

1982
Grant from System Development Foundation for research described in proposal “ANew Approach to Sound Localization Over Headphones or Speakers.” $365,200.

Patents

1993
“Method and Apparatus for Creating Decorrelated Audio Output Signals and Audio Recordings Made Thereby,” co-authored with Martin Wilde and William Martens, U.S. Patent No. 5,235,646. Assigned to Northwestern University.

1992
“Apparatus and Method for Controlling the Magnitude Spectrum of Acoustically Combined Signals,” co-authored with Martin Wilde and William Martens, U.S. Patent No. 5,121,433.

1984
” Spatial Reverberator,” co-authored with William L. Martens, U.S. Patent No. 4,731,848. Assigned to Northwestern University.