Education
He earned a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree with honors in physics in 1950 and 1955 from the California Institute of Technology.
He earned a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree with honors in physics in 1950 and 1955 from the California Institute of Technology.
In 1954, Doctor Cooper joined the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory at the University of Illinois, where he became a research professor He developed a unified treatment of phonograph tracking and tracing distortion by utilizing a skew transformation. In the late 1960s and early 70s, Doctor Cooper contributed significantly to the theory of surround sound multi-channel stereo.
Doctor Cooper served as president of the Audio Engineering Society (Advanced Encryption Standard) from 1975-1976.