1998 January/February, VOLUME 46 NUMBER 1/2

CONTENT

Foreword John J. Bubbers 3
President's Message Subir K. Pramanik 4

I. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

Reminiscences on the Founding and Development of the Society Donald J. Plunkett 5
Charter Members 6
Officers/Governors/Editors 1949 - 1998 7
Conventions and Conferences 1949 - 1997 13
Audio Engineering Society Awards Recipients 17

II. TECHNOLOGICAL REVIEW

Highlights in the History of Multichannel Sound Emil Torick 27
Magnetic Recording John J. Bubbers 32
Dawn of the Digital Age Stanley P. Lipshitz 37
Fifty Years of Loudspeaker Developments as Viewed Through the Perspective of the Audio Engineering Society Mark R. Gander 43
Electronic Technology W. Marshall Leach, Jr. 59
Acoustics in the Audio Engineering Society Manfred Schroeder 71

III. SOCIETY COMMITTEE ACTIVITY

Standards in the AES John Nunn 74
Education and the AES Roy Pritts 88

IV. INTERNATIONALIZATION, GROWTH, AND FUTURE OF THE SOCIETY

Introduction John J. Bubbers 94
AES British Section John Borwick 94
AES Goes Europe Peter K. Burkowitz 98
Personal Memories of the AES in Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe Gerhard Steinke 103
Brief History of the AES Japan Section Akihiko Takasu and Katsuya (Vic) Goh 108
The Growth of the AES in Australia A. N. Thiele, Fabian Horton, David Hudson, David Murphy, and John D. Smyth 111
The AES and Its Future Roger K. Furness 115

V. THE AUTHORS 117

VI. SOCIETY COMMUNICATIONS

AES Special Publications 123
Audio Engineering Society Membership Application Instructions 128
Sections Contacts Directory 131
AES Conventions and Conferences 136