Stockham, Thomas
(*1933)
Stockham, Thomas (1933–) Considered by many to be the father of digital recording, Stockham earned an Sc.D. degree from MIT in 1959 and was appointed assistant professor of electrical engineering at the same school. In 1962 he began experimenting with digital audio tape recordings using a large TX-0 computer and a A/D-D/A converter. (During this time, he also helped fellow MIT professor Amar Bose work on loudspeaker design.) In 1968 he left MIT for the University of Utah, and in 1975 he founded…