The HistoryMakers video oral history with Legand Burge, Jr.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 57 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2011.016
Subjects

Other author/creatorBurge, Legand, 1949- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Legand Burge, Jr.
Portion of title Legand Burge, Jr.
Abstract Electrical engineer and academic administrator Legand Burge, Jr. was born on August 3, 1949. He earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1971; his M.S. degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1973; and his Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University in 1979. His graduate studies focused on signal processing related to speech. Burge served in the U.S. Air Force for thirty years. His stations of duty included the U. S. Air Force Academy, the Pentagon, and the National Security Administration. He taught and conducted research in the fields of information theory, coding theory, digital signal processing, and communications. Burge was also a cost estimator for the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Burge retired from the military as a colonel in 1999. He was appointed professor of electrical engineering and dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Physical Sciences at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Tuskegee, Alabama 2011 April 11.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2011.016 HistoryMakers

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