Moise H. Goldstein, Jr.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering;
Professor of Biomedical Engineering (joint appointment)

Education

        B.S.    1949    Tulane University
        M.S.    1951    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Ph.D.   1957    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research

The focus of Professor Goldstein's research activities is basic research into speech processing and development of devices to aid profoundly deaf children. In the Sensory Communications Laboratory, which has Goldstein, Andreas Andreou, and Robert Jenkins as faculty members, the first wearable vibrotactile aid was designed and used with a deaf child. Another project resulted in a personal computer (PC) system to provide diagnostic information to speech therapists and to aid them in the speech production training of deaf children. Computer modeling of the auditory periphery has yielded results quite like those obtained in physiological investigation. Present work includes realizing, in analog VLSI, a real-time speech preprocessor based on the auditory peripheral processing, using a neural network to process the visual and acoustic signals of speech, development of a universal hearing screener for newborns.

Selected Publications

M.H. Goldstein, Jr., A. Proctor, L. Bulle, and H. Shimizu. ``Tactile Stimulation in Speech Reception: Experience with a Non-auditory Child.'' in Speech of the Hearing Impaired, edited by M. J. Osberger, 147--166. University Park, Baltimore, MD, 1983.

M.H. Goldstein, Jr., and A. Proctor. ``Tactile Aids for Profoundly Deaf Children.'' J. Acoustical Society of America, 77 (1985):258--265.

L.E. Bernstein, M.B. Schecter, and M. H. Goldstein, Jr. ``Child and Adult Vibrotactile Thresholds for Sinusoidal and Pulsatile Stimulil.'' J. Acoustical Society of America, 80 (1986):118--123.

L.E. Bernstein, M.H. Goldstein, Jr., and J.J. Mahshie. ``Speech Training Aids for Profoundly Deaf Children: I Overview and Goals.'' J. Rehabilitation Research and Development, 25 (1988):53--62.

B.P. Yuhas, M.H. Goldstein, Jr., and T.J. Sejnowski. ``Integration of Acoustic and Visual Speech Signals Using Neural Networks.'' IEEE Communications Magazine, 27 (1989):65--71.

S.P. Eberhardt, L.E. Bernstein, M.E. Demorest and M.H. Goldstein, Jr. ``Speechreading Sentences with Single-Channel Vibrotactile Presentation of Voice Fundamental Frequency.'' J. Acoustical Society of America, 88 (1990):1274--1285.

W. Liu, A.G. Andreou, and M.H. Goldstein, Jr. ``Speech Preprocessing Using Analog VLSI.'' J. Acoustical Society of America, 87, suppl.1 (1990):109.

B.P. Yuhas, M.H. Goldstein, Jr., R.E. Jenkins, and T.J. Sejnowski. ``Neural Network Model of Sensory Integration for Vowel Recognition.'' IEEE Proceedings, 78 (1990):1658--1668.

B.P. Yuhas and M.H. Goldstein. ``Comparing Human and Neural Network lip Readers.'' J. Acoustical Society of America, 90 (1991):598--600.