Bill Lang’s contributions to the Acoustical Society of America

Abstract

This paper deals with the contribution of his activities as a member of the Executive Council of the Acoustical Society of America. His most important contribution was the restructuring of the financial system. As a treasurer of the Society, he converted the book keeping into a system that allows making clear decisions on the spending, keep the evidence on the balances and, most importantly charge all activities to the correct budget chapters. The budgets were of course computerized. The new system contributed substantially to balance the operating budget that was important due to the falling budget income from the JASA. Bill is the past chairman of the Technical Committee on Noise and a worldwide contributor to the acoustical standards in many functions particularly from the ASA bases. The paper will also deal with many other contributions linked to the Executive council decisions.