 Thursday
24 February, 2005, 7:30pm
Venue : NUSSU Guildhouse, Suntec City, The Guild Room
"Any
Song, Any Time & Any Place"
 Audio
Engineering Society (Singapore Section) is organising a sharing-of-ideas
session by Professor Kees. The title of the talk is " ANY SONG
ANY TIME ANY PLACE" By Kees A. Schouhamer Immink, Turing Machines
Inc,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
** Abstract **
Digital revolutionary fruit, such as the Compact Disc, MiniDisc,
DAT, DVR, DVD and so on, is less than 20 years young. New products
are now on the market showing features that did not exist in
the early 1980s. DVD, introduced in 1996, has quickly become
a high-tech commodity product by now, and solid-state storage
brought us the ultimate portable audio player. Since the introduction
of Edison's cylinder and Berliner's gramophone, more than a
hundred years ago, the paradigm of the sales chain of recorded
music remained unchanged. A next step of the digital audio
revolution will bring forth a significant change of the canned
music sales paradigm. We will witness the creation of (wireless)
music-on-demand services, where digital networked players can
play music directly taken from libraries somewhere on the Internet
using streaming audio or alternatively from a networked attached
'song' server in the basement or broom closet of your home.
This connected system will be the biggest jukebox in the universe.
No distribution costs, no pressing costs, no returns, no out-of-stock
items. The
speaker will give an overview of the enabling technologies that made
digital audio
possible, and he will deploy his glass ball to see what the future
might offer.
** Speaker's Biodata
** (extracted from AES Journal December 2004 Edition)
Kees A. Schouhamer
Immink received the prestigious Progress Medal from The Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). An AES fellow and
Gold Medal Award recipient, Immink received the award for the central
role he played in research and development of audio and video recording
products.
Immink's inventions
have contributed to many aspects of recording systems, most notably
coding technology. He developed the coding
technology of a wide variety of digital video and audio recorders
such as the Compact Disc, Compact Disc Video, CD-R, MiniDisc,
DAT, DCC, DVD, and recently the BluRay disc system. Immink's
research has thus far resulted in four books, more than 100 articles
and more than 1000 international patents. Most of these are basic
patents underlying all modern digital recorder products introduced
since the early 1980s. Knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands,
Immink has received an "
Emmy," the SMPTE Poniatoff Gold Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka
Consumer Electronics Award, and the IEEE Edison Medal, among
others. He was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
and elected into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He
has also been honored with fellow status in many professional organizations,
including SMPTE and IEEE.
Immink, a native
of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, obtained his master's and Ph.D. degrees
from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is president and
founder of Turing Machines Inc. He is also a guest professor at the
Institute for Experimental Mathematics,
Essen-Duisburg
University, Germany, and at the National University of
Singapore. Immink is an AES past president.
Some links related
to Professor Kees
http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immink/
http://www.shannonfoundation.org/book.html
Venue
and date/time of the talk is as follows.
The Guild Room
NUSSU Guildhouse,
Suntec City Mall
3 Temasek Boulevard #05-001
Singapore.
Date: 24 February
2005, Thursday Time: 7.30pm
If you are keen
to listen to the talk, kindly confirm your attendance to Ms Francisca
by email
or tel: 63192668 by 23rd February 2005.
There are limited
seats. (free for all)
(Registration for AES membership can be done online
via AES HQ website)
Please visit http://www.aes.org/ for AES HQ website
and
http://www.aes-singapore.org/ for Singapore section. |
