I'm voting for it as well. fred is def a cool prof. Excuse my ignorance but
am I right that fred is a co-inventor of this window?

Johnny

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Michael Dickens <m...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> My vote: It's hilarious.  But, that's after meeting Fred in person last
> week & noting that, indeed, he -always- does all lowercase for his name,
> even on the printed program (I'm sure there are exceptions, but there were
> none at the conference).  If I hadn't met him or seen all of this, I'd
> probably be scratching my head. - MLD
>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Martin Braun wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:16:34PM -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Josh Blum <j...@joshknows.com> wrote:
> >>> is this a typo or something special here
> >>
> >> Nope, that's not a typo, just a (possibly bad) joke. The
> >> Blackman-harris window gets the "harris" portion from fred harris, who
> >> always spells his name in lowercase letters. When adding that window
> >> function in, I thought it'd be funny.
> >
> > If it's a joke, it's definitely a bad one.
> > I came about this when starting the spectral estimation toolbox, and
> > it's annoyed me ever since.
>
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