Books written and edited by David G. Stork

The Physics of Sound (2nd edition)

by Richard E. Berg and David G. Stork

Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (1994)

ISBN: 0-13-183047-3

This is a textbook for non-science majors on musical acoustics and auditory perception.

Table of Contents

  1. Simple Harmonic Motion and Applications
  2. Waves and Sound
  3. Standing Waves and the Overtone Series
  4. Analysis and Synthesis of Complex Waves
  5. Electronic Music and Synthesizers
  6. The Human Ear and Voice
  7. Sound Recording and Reproduction
  8. Room and Auditorium Acoustics
  9. Musical Temperament and Pitch
  10. Woodwind Instruments
  11. Brass Instruments
  12. String Instruments
  13. The Piano
  14. Percussion Instruments

There is also a Solution Manual available.

Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision and Holography

by David Falk, Dieter Brill and David G. Stork

John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY (1986)

ISBN: 0-471-60385-6

This is a profusely illustrated textbook for non-science majors on optics and human vision.

Table of Contents

  1. Fundamental Properties of Light
  2. Principles of Geometrical Optics
  3. Mirrors and Lenses
  4. The Camera and Photography
  5. The Human Eye and Vision -- I: Producing the Image
  6. Optical Instruments
  7. The Human Eye and Vision -- II: Processing the Image
  8. Binocular Vision and the Perception of Depth
  9. Color
  10. Color Perception Mechanisms
  11. Color Photography
  12. Wave Optics
  13. Scattering and Polarization
  14. Holography
  15. Light in Modern Physics

There is also an Instructor's Manual available.

Ein Blick ins Licht: Einblicke in die Natur des Lichts und des Sehens, in Farbe und Fotografie

by David Falk, Dieter Brill and David G. Stork

Birkhauser Springer, Basel/Boston/Berlin (1990)

ISBN: 3-7643-2401-5

A German translation of Seeing the Light.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  1. Die Haupteigenschaften des Lichts
  2. Grundlagen der geometrischen Optik
  3. Spiegel und Linsen
  4. Kamera und Fotografie
  5. Das menlischlice Auge und sein Sehvermogen I: Wie das Bild erzeugt wird
  6. Optische Instrumente
  7. Das menlischlice Auge und sein Sehvermogen II: Bildverarbeitung
  8. Raumliches Sehen und Tiefenwahrnehmung
  9. Farbe
  10. Farbwahrnehmung
  11. Farbfotografie
  12. Wellenoptik
  13. Streuung und Polarisation
  14. Ein Blick in die moderne Physik

Speechreading by Man and Machine: Data, Models and Systems

edited by David G. Stork and Marcus E. Hennecke

NATO/Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (1996)

ISBN: 3-540-61264-5

This contains papers from the NATO Workshop on speechreading -- the first interdisciplinary meeting on human and machine perception of visible speech.

 

HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality

edited by David G. Stork

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1996)

ISBN: 0-262-19378-7

Table of Contents

  1. Foreward: The Birth of HAL by Arthur C. Clarke
  2. The Best-Informed Dream: HAL and the Vision of 2001 by David G. Stork
  3. Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky by David G. Stork
  4. Could We Build HAL? Supercomputer Design by David J. Kuck
  5. "Foolproof and incapable of error"? Reliable Computing and Fault Tolerance by Ravishankar K. Iyer
  6. "An Enjoyable Game": How HAL Plays Chess by Murray S. Campbell
  7. The Talking Computer: Text to Speech Synthesis by Joseph P. Olive
  8. When Will HAL Understand What We are Saying? Computer Speech Recognition and Understanding by Raymond Kurzweil
  9. "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": How Could HAL Use Language? by Roger C. Schank
  10. From 2001 to 2001: Common Sense and the Mind of HAL by Douglas B. Lenat
  11. Eyes for Computers: How HAL Could "See" by Azriel Rosenfeld
  12. "I could see your lips move": HAL and Speechreading by David G. Stork
  13. Living in Space: Working with the Machines of the Future by Donald A. Norman
  14. Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Emotions and Computers by Rosalind W. Picard
  15. "That's something I could not allow to happen": HAL and Planning by David E. Wilkins
  16. Computers, Science, and Extraterrestrials: An Interview with Stephen Wolfram by David G. Stork
  17. When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame? Computer Ethics by Daniel C. Dennett

HARU densetsu: 2001nen no kompyuta no yume to genjitsu

edited by David G. Stork

Tokyo, Japan: Hayakawa Books (1998)

ISBN: 4-15-208095-7

Japanese translation of HAL's Legacy

 

Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis, Part I: Pattern Classification

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork

Wiley, New York, NY (1998, in preparation) (currently available via ftp to instructors)

ISBN:

This is a graduate text for Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Media Studies and related fields.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Bayes decision theory
  3. Parameter Estimation and Supervised Learning
  4. Nonparametric techniques
  5. Linear Discriminant Functions
  6. Nonlinear Discriminants and Neural Networks
  7. Stochastic Methods
  8. Non-metric Methods
  9. Theory of Learning
  10. Unsupervised Learning and Clustering

The manuscript is available via ftp to faculty using it in courses.

David G. Stork stork@crc.ricoh.com