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The Scientist and Engineer's
Guide to Digital Signal Processing
by Steven W. Smith
California Technical Publishing
Comments by the Reviewers
"The material is nicely presented and was a pleasure to read. I believe you have
achieved your objective of making the material understandable to even those having a
very modest level of mathematical sophistication, which should make this a very popular
work."
Vernon L. Chi
Director, Microelectronic Systems
Laboratory, University of North Carolina
"In general, I found the style of writing most refreshing. It was a pleasure to read 'how
to do DSP' without having to wade through all of the derivations and statistical analysis.
I believe the majority of students will feel the same. The narratives relating to
techniques and pitfalls were particularly insightful. I have not seen this in a DSP text."
Jay L. Smith
Director, Center for Aerospace technology,
Weber State University
"Thank you for allowing me to review a portion of your manuscript. I think that the
project is an excellent idea--- scientists and engineers of all disciplines need to
understand practical digital signal processing concepts, and this book provides an
excellent overview of the important topics. I also like the idea of emphasizing the
concepts and their implementations rather than the mathematics; this will make the text
appealing to a wide variety of students and professionals."
Richard R. Schultz
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical
Engineering, University of North Dakota
"I am very impressed with the quality of the manuscript and I endorse your general
approach to presenting the material to students with a variety of backgrounds."
Paul Morgan
Professor of Geology, Northern Arizona
University
"Yours is an interesting approach ...", "... the style is very pleasing, and makes for an
enjoyable reading. The book has rhythm and is easily followed. I must admit that
occasionally I would have welcomed some further mathematics that could have
enlightened your descriptions, but I understand that this was not one of your major
goals. I share with you the notion that the best DSP teaching strategy is not necessarily
a-la-Oppenheim, and that the development of intuition is essential in making
DSP an accessible subject."
Oscar Yanez Suarez
Metropolitan University, Iztapalapa
campus, Mexico City.
"In general, I find this book very well written and informative, and I will recommend it
to my future students as a beginner-level text. Congratulations for a job well done, and
thank you for giving me a chance to review it."
M. Das
Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems
Engineering, Oakland University
"This is very good, reads well and is instructive." "The figures in your book are an
especially strong point; again and again I found that the figures supported and illustrated
(and sometimes expanded upon) the text in a very useful way. If I were offering a DSP
course in 1998, I would definitely consider your text for adoption. It a good piece of
work!"
Jeffrey W. Smith
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer
Science, University of Georgia
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