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WILLIAM W. LANG
Pages 174-179

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From page 175...
... MALING JR. W ILLIAM WARNER LANG, a leader in noise control engineering at IBM and in standards development and professional organizations, died October 23, 2016, at the age of 90.
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From page 176...
... Other IBM locations soon began to develop acoustical facilities, and Bill maintained some control through corporate assignments in both standards and technology. Eventually IBM had acous tics laboratories in Endicott, New York; Rochester, Minnesota; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; and Boca Raton, Florida, as well as Brazil, Germany, Japan, and elsewhere for a total of sixteen.
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From page 177...
... The 50th INTER-NOISE congress will take place in 2021 in Washington. He was a registered professional engineer in New York state and a Distinguished Noise Control Engineer, fellow, and past president of INCE-USA, past president of I-INCE, and a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Acoustical Society of America (ASA; also past trea surer)
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... In 2004 Bill worked with NAE management to develop an initiative in noise control engineering. A scoping workshop was held in 2005 and led to a consensus study and report, Technology for a Quieter America (National Academies Press, 2010)
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... Lang, daughter-inlaw Bogumila, and two grandsons Lucjan Olaf and Colin.
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