Wil Howitt -- Curriculum Vitae

Birthdate

Education

• Stonehill College, BA Mathematics, 1982, Summa Cum Laude
• University of Notre Dame, BSEE, 1983, Summa Cum Laude
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MSEE, 1987
  • Thesis: Application of the Wigner distribution to speech analysis
  • Advisor: Kenneth N. Stevens
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sc.D. EE, 2000
  • Thesis: Automatic Syllable Detection for Vowel Landmarks
  • Advisor: Kenneth N. Stevens

Honors

• Pedke Scholar (musical excellence), 1981
• Pangborn Scholar (academic excellence), 1983
• Ashdown Fellow (community service), 1990

Professional activities

• 1983-1985, Digital Equipment Corporation, design engineer
• 1988 summer, Bose Corporation, psychoacoustic engineer
• 1991-1994, Sensimetrics Corporation, engineering manager
• 1994-1998, Otolith, proprietor of consulting engineering firm

Patent

Publications

Howitt, A. W. (1990) "Towards an automatic system for distinctive feature extraction from speech." Paper presented at the 120th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, November 1990.

Howitt, A. W. (1992) "The auditory perception of phase distortion." MIT Speech Communications Group Working Papers, volume 8, summer 1992.

Howitt, A. W. (1993) "Speech synthesis using high level parameters." Paper SA02-MS78 presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech and Hearing Association, November 1993.

Howitt, A. W. (1996) "Variable rate codec for speech and audio." Paper 1pSP5 presented at the 3rd joint meeting of the Acoustical Societies of America and Japan, October 1996.

Howitt, A. W. (1999) "Vowel Landmark Detection." Paper S13.PO2.4 presented at EuroSpeech 99, Budapest, Hungary, September 1999.

Howitt, A. W. (2000) "Vowel Landmark Detection." Paper presented at ICSLP 2000, Beijing, China, October 2000.