--- title: Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary... description: Francis Fan Lee, a former professor of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died at the age of 96. He made significant... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/francis-fan-lee-former-professor-and-interdisciplinary-speech-processing-inventor-dies-at-96-5l34gpnj5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies at 96 | daily.dev og:description: Francis Fan Lee, a former professor of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died at the age of 96. He made significant... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/francis-fan-lee-former-professor-and-interdisciplinary-speech-processing-inventor-dies-at-96-5l34gpnj5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5l34GpNj5.png og:image:alt: Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies at 96 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies at 96 **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Francis Fan Lee, a former professor of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, died at the age of 96. He made significant contributions to the development of a reading machine and co-founded companies specializing in digital signal compression and expansion. He received multiple awards for his work and faced personal tragedies in his later years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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