Fumitada Itakura

Fumitada Itakura was born in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in August 6, 1940. He received the undergraduate and graduate degrees from Nagoya University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. In 1968, he joined the NTT Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratory, Tokyo. He completed his D.Eng. degree in speech analysis and synthesis based on a statistical method in 1972. He worked at the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Labs under James Flanagan from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1981, he studied problems in speech analysis and synthesis based on the line spectrum pair (LSP) method. In 1981, he was appointed as Chief of the Speech and Acoustics Research Section at NTT. He left this position in 1984 to take a professorship in communications theory and signal processing at Nagoya University. His awards include the IEEE ASSP 1975 Senior Award, an award from Japan's Ministry of Science and Technology in 1977, the IEEE 1986 Morris N. Liebmann Award [Cite web | url=http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/liebpr.html | title=IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award Recipients | accessdate=2008-02-15] (with B. S. Atal), the IEEE Signal Processing 1996 Society Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEICE 2002 Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award, and the 2003 Purple Ribbon Medal from Japanese Government. In 2005, he received the Asahi Prize and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an honorary member the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan. [ [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2005kilby.html link IEEE Award] ]

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