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JAMES W. COOLEY
Pages 65-68

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... In 1962 he joined the research staff of IBM's Watson Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where he remained until he retired in 1991. He then joined the University of Rhode Island as a professor of electrical engineering, teaching graduate courses and participating in signal processing research projects until he retired in 1993.
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From page 67...
... . The paper initially sparked great interest among a handful of pioneers already working on digital filters, but it soon became clear that with the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, the Fourier transform had suddenly gone from being a powerful mathematical tool for representing signals and systems to an even more powerful computational tool for analyzing recorded signals and implementing a virtually unlimited variety of signal processing operations.
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... In his address, Jim observed that people were already saying things like, "some day radio tuners will operate with DSP units," and of course today we have software radios along with such DSP-enabled technologies as cell phones, digital audio, and HDTVs, to name but a few. The 1968 Arden House conference, and two more in 1972 and 1976 that he cochaired, were powerful forces in establishing digital signal processing as a key enabling technology in the paradigm shift from analog to digital systems.
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