James L. Flanagan

Date of Birth: 26 August 1925

Birthplace: Greenwood, Miss.

Height: 178 centimeters

Family: wife, Mildred; three sons: Stephen, James, Aubrey

Education: BSEE 1948, Mississippi State University; S.M. 1950, Sc.D. 1955, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

First Job: assembling Christmas toys for J.C. Penney Co. in Greenwood

Patents: around 50

Board Memberships: The Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore; National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo; Fraser Research, Princeton, N.J.; IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland

Computers: Sony VAIO laptop, four Dell desktops

Most Recent Books Read: Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code; Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

Favorite Movie: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, with John Wayne)

Car: Chevrolet Blazer

Organizational Memberships: IEEE (Life Fellow), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Acoustical Society of America (Fellow)

Major Awards: IEEE Medal of Honor, L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications, National Medal of Science, Marconi International Fellowship, Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America; the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award honors him.