Chester McKinney and the Acoustical Society of America: Over sixty years of service
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The impact of Chester McKinney on the Acoustical Society of America cannot be overstated. Chester served as a charter member of the Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee and was its first chair in 1956. He was the driving influence in making the ASA the professional home for underwater acousticians. He established three committees that still serve the society: Archives, Tutorials and Public Relations. He served on the Executive Council, the Medals and Awards Committee, the Committee on Meetings and the Nominating Committee among others. Chester went on to serve as vice-president and president of the society. In 1989, Chester pioneered a census of acousticians. He chaired the census ad-hoc committee, collected and organized the responses and reported the results in JASA [McKinney, Hurdle, and Blue, “A profile of the acoustics community in the United States and Canada,” J. Acous. Soc. Am., 91(2):1169–1179, 1992]. This census can now be compared with the statistics of today to track the growth of the society. Chester received the Gold Medal in 2004, the highest honor the society can bestow.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".