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From: Steve Underwood on 6 May 2008 08:16
robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> On May 5, 11:11 pm, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT), c...(a)claysturner.com wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>> In the May issue of Sig. Proc. Mag., Rick gets mentioned in two
>>> different articles. One is the announcement of his award for best
>>> column. Rick can now buy us all beer. And the other is the review of
>>> his latest book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing." The reviewer
>>> really loved the book. He also cited Greg Berchen's article as his
>>> personal favorite. So let's all give Rick a big congratulations for
>>> two jobs well done.
>>> Clay
>> Did you notice who wrote the book review? ;)
>>
>
> by the smilie face, i am suspicious that it's someone else we know
> here. i dunno, i haven't held an IEEE document of any kind for
> years. (and hadn't been a member except briefly as an undergraduate
> student in the 70s.)
>
> r b-j

I've held very few documents in the last few years. PDFs are so much
more searchable. :-)

Steve
From: clay on 6 May 2008 10:18
On May 5, 11:11 pm, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT), c...(a)claysturner.com wrote:
> >Hello All,
>
> >In the May issue of Sig. Proc. Mag., Rick gets mentioned in two
> >different articles. One is the announcement of his award for best
> >column. Rick can now buy us all beer. And the other is the review of
> >his latest book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing." The reviewer
> >really loved the book. He also cited Greg Berchen's article as his
> >personal favorite. So let's all give Rick a big congratulations for
> >two jobs well done.
>
> >Clay
>
> Did you notice who wrote the book review?   ;)
>
> Eric Jacobsen
> Minister of Algorithms
> Abineau Communicationshttp://www.ericjacobsen.org

Of course I saw who wrote the review! Al was spot on about the
practicality of the book. Which of course goes way book to how Rick
become editor of the column in the first place. Practicing engineers
need effacacious articles. And Rick complained to the IEEE about their
many articles that seemed irrelavent and they got him to put his pen
where his mouth is.

Clay
From: Al Clark on 6 May 2008 10:55
clay(a)claysturner.com wrote in news:90f1d3ca-7952-48f2-af49-af8e67a21822
@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

> On May 5, 11:11�pm, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT), c...(a)claysturner.com wrote:
>> >Hello All,
>>
>> >In the May issue of Sig. Proc. Mag., Rick gets mentioned in two
>> >different articles. One is the announcement of his award for best
>> >column. Rick can now buy us all beer. And the other is the review of
>> >his latest book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing." The reviewer
>> >really loved the book. He also cited Greg Berchen's article as his
>> >personal favorite. So let's all give Rick a big congratulations for
>> >two jobs well done.
>>
>> >Clay
>>
>> Did you notice who wrote the book review? � ;)
>>
>> Eric Jacobsen
>> Minister of Algorithms
>> Abineau Communicationshttp://www.ericjacobsen.org
>
> Of course I saw who wrote the review! Al was spot on about the
> practicality of the book. Which of course goes way book to how Rick
> become editor of the column in the first place. Practicing engineers
> need effacacious articles. And Rick complained to the IEEE about their
> many articles that seemed irrelavent and they got him to put his pen
> where his mouth is.
>
> Clay
>

I had to write the review, I was the only one left here who didn't
contributed a chapter.

Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
From: clay on 6 May 2008 11:39
On May 6, 10:55 am, Al Clark <acl...(a)danvillesignal.com> wrote:
> c...(a)claysturner.com wrote in news:90f1d3ca-7952-48f2-af49-af8e67a21822
> @m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On May 5, 11:11 pm, Eric Jacobsen <eric.jacob...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT), c...(a)claysturner.com wrote:
> >> >Hello All,
>
> >> >In the May issue of Sig. Proc. Mag., Rick gets mentioned in two
> >> >different articles. One is the announcement of his award for best
> >> >column. Rick can now buy us all beer. And the other is the review of
> >> >his latest book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing." The reviewer
> >> >really loved the book. He also cited Greg Berchen's article as his
> >> >personal favorite. So let's all give Rick a big congratulations for
> >> >two jobs well done.
>
> >> >Clay
>
> >> Did you notice who wrote the book review?   ;)
>
> >> Eric Jacobsen
> >> Minister of Algorithms
> >> Abineau Communicationshttp://www.ericjacobsen.org
>
> > Of course I saw who wrote the review! Al was spot on about the
> > practicality of the book. Which of course goes way book to how Rick
> > become editor of the column in the first place. Practicing engineers
> > need effacacious articles. And Rick complained to the IEEE about their
> > many articles that seemed irrelavent and they got him to put his pen
> > where his mouth is.
>
> > Clay
>
> I had to write the review, I was the only one left here who didn't
> contributed a chapter.
>
> Al Clark
> Danville Signal Processing, Inc.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Al, you know Rick is looking for a few good DSP men - you already
demonstrated you can write, and I know you are proficient with DSP, so
you ought to put together an article. I already have another in
queue.

Clay




From: Rick Lyons on 7 May 2008 06:05
On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT), clay(a)claysturner.com wrote:

>Hello All,
>
>In the May issue of Sig. Proc. Mag., Rick gets mentioned in two
>different articles. One is the announcement of his award for best
>column. Rick can now buy us all beer. And the other is the review of
>his latest book "Streamlining Digital Signal Processing." The reviewer
>really loved the book. He also cited Greg Berchen's article as his
>personal favorite. So let's all give Rick a big congratulations for
>two jobs well done.
>
>Clay

Hi Clay,
Thanks much for the kind words.

As for that "Best 2007 Column Article" award,
that was sure a surprise to me. Like I said in
some past post, I voted for three different
"DSP Tip & Tricks" articles (none of which
were mine) to win the award. That shows you
how much influence I have with the IEEE folk!

I was thrilled to read Al Clark's well-written
review of the "Streamlining DSP" book. Al *EXACTLY*
recognized, and succinctly described, the intent of
the book, which was to provide descriptions of
"tried-n-true" DSP tricks written by working engineers
who actually developed those tricks.

Al, bein' the honest guy that he is, did comment
on his disappointment that the book did not contain
any software code. As it turns out, there is
some MATLAB and C code related to the book's
chapters. That code can be found at:

http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=external/tipsandtricks

One little side note regarding the book:
One of the book's Contributors is the famous
Charles Rader, one of the *TRUE* pioneers of DSP.
(I won't list his profound accomplishments in DSP,
nor his list of awards, here.)
Last Fall when I sent an E-mail to Charles, asking
if he'd received his complimentary copy of the book,
he replied saying yes he did receive his copy.
And he stated: "Some of the papers I see a second
time around will actually be useful to me."

A comment like that meant a great deal to me,
comin' from such a famous DSP researcher/pioneer!

See Ya',
[-Rick-]
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