| Foreword | John J. Bubbers | 3 |
| President-s Message | Subir K. Pramanik | 4 |
| I. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | ||
| Reminiscences on the Founding and Development of the Society | Donald J. Plunkett | 5 |
| Charter Members | 6 | |
| Officers/Governors/Editors 1949...1998 | 7 | |
| Conventions and Conferences 1949...1997 | 13 | |
| Audio Engineering Society Awards Recipients | 17 | |
| II. TECHNOLOGICAL REVIEW | ||
| Highlights in the History of Multichannel Sound | Emil Torick | 27 |
| Magnetic Recording | John J. Bubbers | 32 |
| Dawn of the Digital Age | Stanley P. Lipshitz | 37 |
| Fifty Years of Loudspeaker Developments as Viewed Through the Perspective of the Audio Engineering Society | Mark R. Gander | 43 |
| Electronic Technology | W. Marshall Leach, Jr | 59 |
| Acoustics in the Audio Engineering Society | Manfred Schroeder | 71 |
| III. SOCIETY COMMITTEE ACTIVITY | ||
| Standards In the AES | John Nunn | 74 |
| Education and the AES | Roy Pritts | 88 |
| IV. INTERNATIONALIZATION, GROWTH, AND FUTURE OF THE SOCIETY | ||
| Introduction | John J. Bubbers | 94 |
| AES British Section | John Borwick | 94 |
| AES Goes Europe | Peter K. Burkowitz | 98 |
| Personal Memories of the AES in Eastern Germany and Eastern Europe | Gerhard Steinke | 103 |
| Brief History of the AES Japan Section | Akihiko Takasu and Katsuya (Vic) Goh | 108 |
| The Growth of the AES in Australia | A. N. Thiele, Fabian Horton, David Hudson, David Murphy, and John D. Smyth | 111 |
| The AES and Its Future | Roger K. Fumess | 115 |
| V. THE AUTHORS | 117 | |
| VI. SOCIETY COMMUNICATIONS | ||
| AES Special Publications | 123 | |
| Audio Engineering Society Membership Application Instructions | 128 | |
| Sections Contacts Directory | 131 | |
| AES Conventions and Conferences | 136 |
