ROBERT A. BERKOVITZ

Education:

University of Illinois, Urbana 1952-1955 History of Art, Philosophy

Professional Experience:

1999 to present Chairman, Sensimetrics Corporation

1987-1998 President, Sensimetrics Corporation

1985-1987 Manager, Audiometer Development Group, Belmont, MA

1985-1987 Consultant, The Dietrich Group, Waltham, MA

1982-1987 Consultant, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Inc.

1974-1982 Director of Research, Teledyne Acoustic Research, Norwood, MA

1970-1974 Head, Advertising and Comm., Dolby Laboratories, Inc. London, England

1967-1970 Director of Communications, Acoustic Research, Inc. Cambridge, MA

1966-1967 Education Project Director, American Can Co., New York, NY

1965-1966 Operations Manager, Mattes Electronics, Inc. Chicago, IL

1963-1965 Manager, Consumer Product Development, Jensen Mfg. Co., Chicago, IL

1962-1963 Product Development Manager, Dynaco, Inc. Santa Monica, CA

1961-1962 Operations Manager, Transis-Tronics, Inc. Santa Monica, CA

1958-1961 Manager, Product Development, Allied Radio Corporation, Chicago, IL

1956-1957 Art Director, Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, IL

1954-1956 Illustration Editor, Spencer Press, Champion, IL

Publications:

Allison, R. and R. Berkovitz (1970) "The sound field in home listening rooms." Journal Audio Eng. Soc., 20: 459-469.

Berkovitz, R. McIntosh, D. (1974) "A sixteen-channel digital time delay system," presented at the 1974 AES Technical

Meeting, Los Angeles.

Berkovitz, R. and B.E. Edvardsen (1976). "Listener sensitivity to phase shift in music reproduction," presented at the

1976 AES Technical Meeting, New York (AES Preprint No. 1294).

Berkovitz, R. and T. Schultz (1977) "Use of computers in the study of room acoustics." Journal of the Acoustical

Society of America, 64: 41(S)

Berkovitz, R. (1978) "Loudspeaker measurements weighted by psychoacoustic modelling." Invited presentation at the

Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan and the Acoustical Society of America (96^th Meeting), Journal

of the Acoustical Society of America, 64: I (S)

Berkovtiz, R. and G. Abbott (1981) "Loudspeaker evaluation by biophysical modelling." Presented at 1981 AES

Technical Meeting, New York, (AES Preprint No. 1711).

Stevens, K.N., R. Berkovitz, G. Kidd, Jr. and D.M. Green (1987) "Calibration of ear canals for audiometry at high

frequencies." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 81, (2), 470-484.

Berkovitz, R. (1988) "Control of localization in music recording and reproduction." Presented at CHABA symposium,

"Sound Localization by Human," National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. October 1988.

Berkovitz, R. and K.N. Stevens (1988) "Experimental assessment of a method for calibration of ear canals at high

frequencies." Presented by joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of

Japan, Honolulu, 1988.

Patents

US 3,718,773 (1970) Four channel recording and reproducing system. (Quadraphonics Corp.).

US 3,949,325 (1974) Audio Equalizer for large rooms (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)

US 4,039,755 (1976) Auditorium simulator economics on delay bandwidth. (Acoustic Research, Inc.)

US 4,074,083 (1975) Stereophonic sound system particularly useful in a cinema. (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)

US 4,105,864 (1976) Stereo and spaciousness reverberation system using random access memory. (Acoustic

Research, Inc.)

US 4,130,726 (1977) Loudspeaker system equalization. (Acoustic Research, Inc.)

UK 1,546,122 (1976) Difference test equalizer based on subjective spectral comparison. (Acoustic Research, Inc.)

US 4,458,362 (1982) Automatic time-domain equalization of audio signals. (Acoustic Research, Inc.)