Mit Eecs Faculty News Today

Former MIT professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor Francis Fan Lee died at 96. Lee helped to develop a machine that read English text out loud and won an Emmy for his work on subtly speeding up film and audio without a noticeable loss of pitch.

Retired MIT Professor Judy Hoyt, whose use of lattice strain as a means to enhance performance in scaled silicon devices revolutionized the semiconductor industry, died at 65.