... of the IEEE, and Member of the EAGE and SEG. Hehas served on a number of IEEE and other editorial boards, and the conference organizing committees of ICASSP (1989), TA-91(1991), and EUSIPCO ... language-relatedissues and audio analysis and recognition, and was aninspirational leader w ithin these groups. He focused on is-sues of speech (phoneme, vowel, and word) recognition,speaker recognition, and ... three sons (Boaz, Gilad, and Na-dav), all electrical engineers, a daughter-in-law (Michal), and three grandchildren (Shira, Jonathan, and Itay), to whom heshowed great love and affection. A more...