--- title: "Francis Fan Lee, former professor and interdisciplinary speech processing inventor, dies at 96" url: https://daily.dev/posts/francis-fan-lee-former-professor-and-interdisciplinary-speech-processing-inventor-dies-at-96-5l34gpnj5 source_url: https://news.mit.edu/2024/francis-fan-lee-former-mit-eecs-professor-speech-processing-inventor-0501 type: article source: "MIT News" published: 2024-05-01T20:52:32.640Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z tags: ["automation", "computer-science"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#computer-science](https://daily.dev/tags/computer-science) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/francis-fan-lee-former-professor-and-interdisciplinary-speech-processing-inventor-dies-at-96-5l34gpnj5)