Subject: NYTimes: John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94 From: Sunil Puria <puria@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:13:19 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--Apple-Mail=_76504E5A-EAC8-41D1-9A50-E0E7427D1874 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thought some of you might enjoy reading this. JOHN E. KARLIN, 1918-2013: John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit = Dialing, Dies at 94 Mr. Karlin, a Bell Labs industrial research psychologist, was also = instrumental in the shortening of telephone cords and the creation of = rectangular keypads for touch-tone models. http://nyti.ms/WWMol0 Sunil Puria, PhD Stanford University Depts. of ME & OHNS OtoBiomechanics Group http://www.stanford.edu/people/puria --Apple-Mail=_76504E5A-EAC8-41D1-9A50-E0E7427D1874 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div>Thought some of you might enjoy reading = this.</div><div><br></div><div>JOHN E. KARLIN, 1918-2013: John E. = Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94</div><br>Mr. = Karlin, a Bell Labs industrial research psychologist, was also = instrumental in the shortening of telephone cords and the creation of = rectangular keypads for touch-tone models.<br><br><a = href=3D"http://nyti.ms/WWMol0">http://nyti.ms/WWMol0</a><div><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; 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">Sunil Puria, = PhD</span></font></font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"'Copperplate Gothic Light'"><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 13px; = "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" color=3D"#990000">Stanford = University</font></span></font></font></font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"'Copperplate Gothic Light'"><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 13px; ">Depts. of ME & = OHNS</span></font></font></p><p style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"'Copperplate Gothic Light'"><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 13px; 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