Biography

Dale Joachim is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where he heads the Ecology Media research group, which is exploring new roles sensor networks might play in enhancing human interactions with natural environments. He has taught computer architecture, digital logic, and speech-processing courses at Tulane University while pursuing research in set-membership filtering theory, sound classification, and spatial tracking. Prior to joining Tulane University, he served as principal investigator of speech keyword spotting and unattended distributed sensors R&D projects at Sanders/Lockheed Martin, and seven years as lead hardware design engineer of PC subsystems at Zenith Data Systems. Joachim earned his PhD in electrical engineering at Michigan State University.