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Career Highlights

• Technology Thought Leader and Industry Representative at NBC Universal

• As Chairman of the ATSC, initiated the ATSC 3.0 effort

• Drove the creation of the ATSC-Mobile broadcast standard and the commercial formation of the Dyle joint venture

• Founding President of the Open Authentication Technology Committee (OATC) to enable a strong TV Everywhere ecosystem

• Developed technical specifications for the first large scale authenticated content access – Vancouver 2009

• Founding member of UltraViolet

• First large scale use of real-time fingerprinting for copyright-enforcing upload filtering by websites- Beijing 2005

• First national multicast channel - NBC Weather+ (infrastructure design and technical project lead)

• NBC’s first HD cable channel - Universal-HD (infrastructure design and technical project lead)

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•  A “founding father” in the creation and development of digital HDTV

•  Leading contributor to establishing the ATSC Digital Television (DTV) standard approved by the FCC in late 1996.  Key participant in technical and business negotiations to form the HDTV Grand Alliance (1993).  Key member of the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance in the Technical Oversight Group, the Communications Strategy Group, and leader of Grand Alliance computer interoperability efforts:  (The story of HDTV development is chronicled in the books “Defining Vision” by Joel Brinkley and “High Definition Television: The Creation, Development and Implementation of HDTV Technology” by Philip Cianci).

•  Began "skunk works" digital television projects in 1988.  Lead Sarnoff-Thomson-Philips-NBC team to develop Advanced Digital HDTV, which pioneered packetized data transport, MPEG compression and flexible use of multiple formats. Leadership of technical and strategic aspects (industry demonstrations, standards committee meetings and documents, ex-officio member of ACATS Special Panel in 1993).  AD-HDTV’s key technical approaches became the basis for DirecTV, ATSC and all subsequent digital television delivery systems.

•  Played a crucial role in defining and negotiating a DTV relationship between Sarnoff and Motorola and in developing the DTV IC strategy and architecture that resulted in the MCT 4000 decoder and MCT 2100 demodulator integrated circuits.

•  Assisted the establishment of WHD-TV, the Model HDTV Station project and established Sarnoff as its technical resource (1996).

•  Conceived and formed the HDTV Broadcast Technology project to revolutionize HDTV production and distribution with advanced video compression and ATM networking.  Won $60M, five year government (NIST/ATP) co-funding in 1995 for team of Sarnoff, Thomson, Philips, Comark, IBM, Sun, MCI and others.

•  Technical and business development of Sarnoff’s ATSC / MPEG-2 compliance bitstreams, which played a key role in receiver design verification.

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•  Created startup companies based on intellectual property from Sarnoff R&D projects

• AgileVision – DTV-in-a-box solution for broadcast and cable, using compressed-domain processing (acquired by Leitch in 2002)

•  e-Vue – MPEG-4 based solutions for Web media applications (ceased operations in 2001)

•  Real Image – digital cinema distribution system (acquired by Technicolor in 2000)

•  NxtWave Communications – integrated circuits for DTV and broadband digital communications (acquired by ATI)

•  DIVA Systems – the leading provider of Video On Demand systems

•  Sarnoff Real Time Corp. – massively parallel video supercomputers for real time video (acquired by DIVA in 1995)

 

•  Fundamental contributions and patents in consumer electronics

•  Fundamental work in television receiver signal processing, developing adaptive de-interlacing and up-conversion approaches in the late 1980's

•  TV Graphical User Interface approaches of on-screen controls and remote control menu navigation that are now in ubiquitous worldwide use.

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•  Pioneering technology leadership in digital video and real-time video processing in computer systems

•  Early work in wavelet image compression, which is now embodied in MPEG-4 and JPEG2000 standards

•  Key contributor to “Consumer Digital Systems” briefings to government (1992 – 1998), forecasting powerful, low-cost digital consumer systems and devices with potential dual use capability.  DoD’s Global Broadcast System now utilizes DBS satellite systems for data distribution.

•  Evangelized technology convergence of digital video and computing in the late 1980’s.  Created and lead Sarnoff-Sun-Texas Instruments team and won DARPA funding in 1990 for a High-Resolution Video Workstation – the world’s first real-time video-processing multimedia computer.

•  During the mid-1980s, conceived and led technology development projects for large scale consumer information services, including massively parallel computer and network architectures, DSP modems and natural language software.

•  Key contributor to SMPTE digital video experiments and standards committees from 1980 - 1982 that led to worldwide component digital video (ITU 601) and digital recording (D1) standards, which are the basis of SDI and HD-SDI now in extensive worldwide use.

•  During the late 1970s - early '80s, performed pioneering work in digital video.  Developed concepts and prototypes of digital technology for potential RCA Broadcast products, including cameras, VTRs and DVE. Developed world's first digital ICs for broadcast camera timing/sync.  Created the RCA Digital Video Facility, one of the world’s first computer systems for digitizing video and performing signal processing simulation.

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