Forester W. Isen received the B.S. degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1971 (majoring in mathematics with additional studies in physics and engineering), and the M. Eng. (EE) degree from the University of Louisville in 1978, and spent a career dealing with intellectual property matters at a government agency working in, and then supervising, the examination and consideration of both technical and legal matters pertaining to the granting of patent rights in the areas of electronic music, horology, and audio and telephony systems (AM and FM stereo, hearing aids, transducer structures, Active Noise Cancellation, PA Systems, Equalizers, Echo Cancellers, etc.). Since retiring from government service at the end of 2004, he worked during 2005 as a consultant in database development, and then subsequently spent several years writing the four-volume series DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW, calling on his many years of practical experience to create a book on DSP fundamentals that includes not onlytraditional mathematics and exercises, but "first principle" views and explanations that promote the reader's understanding of the material from an intuitive and practical point of view, as well as a large number of accompanying scripts (to be run on MATLAB or LabVIEW) designed to bring to life the many signal processing concepts discussed in the series.

• An Overview of DSP.- Discrete Signals and Concepts.- Sampling and Binary Representation.- Transform and Filtering Principles.

Forester W. Isen received the B.S. degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1971 (majoring in mathematics with additional studies in physics and engineering), and the M. Eng. (EE) degree from the University of Louisville in 1978, and spent a career dealing with intellectual property matters at a government agency working in, and then supervising, the examination and consideration of both technical and legal matters pertaining to the granting of patent rights in the areas of electronic music, horology, and audio and telephony systems (AM and FM stereo, hearing aids, transducer structures, Active Noise Cancellation, PA Systems, Equalizers, Echo Cancellers, etc.). Since retiring from government service at the end of 2004, he worked during 2005 as a consultant in database development, and then subsequently spent several years writing the four-volume series DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW, calling on his many years of practical experience to create a book on DSP fundamentals that includes not onlytraditional mathematics and exercises, but "first principle" views and explanations that promote the reader's understanding of the material from an intuitive and practical point of view, as well as a large number of accompanying scripts (to be run on MATLAB or LabVIEW) designed to bring to life the many signal processing concepts discussed in the series.

• An Overview of DSP.- Discrete Signals and Concepts.- Sampling and Binary Representation.- Transform and Filtering Principles.

Forester W. Isen received the B.S. degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1971 (majoring in mathematics with additional studies in physics and engineering), and the M. Eng. (EE) degree from the University of Louisville in 1978, and spent a career dealing with intellectual property matters at a government agency working in, and then supervising, the examination and consideration of both technical and legal matters pertaining to the granting of patent rights in the areas of electronic music, horology, and audio and telephony systems (AM and FM stereo, hearing aids, transducer structures, Active Noise Cancellation, PA Systems, Equalizers, Echo Cancellers, etc.). Since retiring from government service at the end of 2004, he worked during 2005 as a consultant in database development, and then subsequently spent several years writing the four-volume series DSP for MATLAB and LabVIEW, calling on his many years of practical experience to create a book on DSP fundamentals that includes not onlytraditional mathematics and exercises, but "first principle" views and explanations that promote the reader's understanding of the material from an intuitive and practical point of view, as well as a large number of accompanying scripts (to be run on MATLAB or LabVIEW) designed to bring to life the many signal processing concepts discussed in the series.

• An Overview of DSP.- Discrete Signals and Concepts.- Sampling and Binary Representation.- Transform and Filtering Principles.