jason
May 30th 14, 09:42 PM
This week's New Yorker magazine has an interesting article about Carl
Haber. He's an experimental physicist at LBL who is a member of the ATLAS
detector team at Cern. He develops particle detectors. Part of the work
involves positioning them very precisely for which he uses optical
metrology. It occurred to him that he might be able to use the technology
to recover audio from antique recordings and built an instrument to do
it. There are copies of his IRENE machine at the Library of Congress
among other places. He won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work.
Here's a link to his LBL work.
http://irene.lbl.gov/
Haber. He's an experimental physicist at LBL who is a member of the ATLAS
detector team at Cern. He develops particle detectors. Part of the work
involves positioning them very precisely for which he uses optical
metrology. It occurred to him that he might be able to use the technology
to recover audio from antique recordings and built an instrument to do
it. There are copies of his IRENE machine at the Library of Congress
among other places. He won a MacArthur Fellowship for his work.
Here's a link to his LBL work.
http://irene.lbl.gov/