A Portable system for data sonification

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank my research advisor, Dan Reed, for all of his guidance and assistance, and especially the innnite patient revisions and criticisms of all my text. This work would have been impossible without his unwavering encouragement and trust in my ideas. I am also extremely grateful to Tom Birkett, who wrote the rst version of the sound software for the SPARC audio device, for his help and inspiration. I also owe a great deal to Brian Totty for building a serial to MIDI interface and bringing in his own synthesizer, convincing everyone of the potential of MIDI for soniication and playing Christmas carols. I am indebted to Joan Francioni and Jay Jackson for showing me their auralization work, which made me think about sound in a very diierent way. Thanks to all the members of the Picasso group, past and present, for their assistance and friendship. In particular, thanks to Mustaazur Rahman for working so hard to provide traces from the Choices operating system. Thanks to Ruth Aydt, for (among other things) saving me from certain eviction from my rst apartment. Thanks to Lawrence Rauchwerger and his army of guardian angels for a sympathetic ear and some of the best advice I have ever received. Thanks to Dave Jensen for constantly coming to my rescue with L a T E X help and thesis tips. Thanks to Chris Elford, Dave Kohr, Bradley Schwartz and Keith Shields for putting up with all my obsessions and complaints. My friend David Zimmerman gets credit for the part of East Coast Voice, although it is unlikely to earn him his big break. And nally, I thank my family for their constant love and support. And in particular, my parents, for believing in me unconditionally.

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