The Toronto AES presented a special meeting to honour the work of an important education force in our audio society, the highly respected University of Waterloo’s Audio Research Group (ARG). Many former graduate students reunited to enjoy the evening.
For over 30 years, the group has conducted research in audio, electro-acoustics and acoustics. It is associated with the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute. Adjunct emeritus faculty members John Vanderkooy of Physics and Stanley Lipshitz of Applied Mathematics supervise mainly Masters but also Doctoral studies.
In addition to generating numerous papers that received publication in the AES Journal, alumni have gone on to hold prominent positions in some of the world’s leading audio companies and organizations, eg Dolby, Harman, Paradigm, Engineering Harmonics, National Research Council… as well as some non-audio industry companies and institutes.
John Vanderkooy (with input from Stan Lipshitz) spoke about the history of how the group came to be and the significant accomplishments it made, eg papers and research.
Alumni from the program who are now involved professionally (or significantly otherwise) in the audio field spoke about how the group impacted their own professional careers and interests.
To see interviews and videos on the Audio Research Group retrospective please visit the Toronto Audio Engineering Society website.