By Staff, September 10, 2008
White Plains, NY – Professor Doctor Karlheinz Brandenburg, the multi award-winning scientist often referred to as the father of MP3, will deliver the keynote address at SMPTE 2008: Annual Tech Conference & Expo (smpte2008.org). The director of the distinguished Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (Fraunhofer IDMT), Dr. Brandenburg will present his vision for the future of digital media, including immersive entertainment, 3-D audio and video, and interactivity.
Produced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (smpte.org), SMPTE 2008 features educational sessions and a trade show floor focused on content creation, management, distribution and display technologies. Dr. Brandenburg's keynote will take place Tuesday morning, October 28, 2008, at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, CA, the location for the SMPTE event.
''Dr. Brandenburg is a true visionary whose work has transformed the media and entertainment industries in immeasurable ways,'' said Kimberly Maki, SMPTE and SMPTE 2008 executive director. ''I am honored that he is delivering our keynote and am very much looking forward to hearing his thoughts about what lies ahead.''
Dr. Brandenburg is the driving force behind some of today's most seminal technologies, including the MP3 and AAC MPEG audio standards, for which he performed the linchpin research and later headed the team that developed and expanded the solutions. As director of Ilmenau, Germany-based Fraunhofer IDMT, Dr. Brandenburg sets the course for the world-renowned institute, which creates new media technologies for the professional and home entertainment sectors.
Dr. Brandenburg has received numerous awards for his work in perceptual measurement techniques, audio encoding, Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) and psycho-acoustics. In 2006, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) named him one of 120 most important inventors and masterminds in the field of electrical engineering and admitted him to the hall of fame of thinkers through the ages.
SMPTE 2008 offers the professional community a wide-ranging education in new and emerging technologies with practical application to the entertainment industry. International thought leaders will present peer-reviewed white papers, case studies and tutorials, and leading entertainment hardware, software and service companies will provide hands on demonstrations of their latest solutions
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* 3-D theatrical and home entertainment
* IPTV and Internet video
* digital newsgathering
* new displays
* high-speed infrastructure for 1080P
Companies interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at SMPTE 2008 should contact Kimberly Maki, 914 761-1100 x4960. Register at: (smpte2008.org/register).
About SMPTE 2008: Annual Tech Conference & Expo
SMPTE 2008: Annual Tech Conference & Expo takes place October 28 – 30, 2008 at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, CA. It is preceded by the full-day symposium, Filmmaking and Live Event Broadcast, on October 27, 2008, at the same location. Produced by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry, SMPTE 2008 is created by entertainment technology professionals, for entertainment technology professionals. It features educational sessions and a hands-on show floor that highlight new and emerging media technologies of practical use to content creation, management, distribution and display professionals. Http://smpte2008.org
About the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry. As an internationally recognized and accredited standards-setting body, SMPTE develops standards, recommended practices and guidelines and spearheads educational activities to advance engineering and moving imagery. Since its founding in 1916, the Society has established close to 600 standards, including the physical dimensions of 35mm film and the SMPTE time code. More recently, it codified the MXF file format to support the exchange of professional AV content and crafted the Digital Cinema Standards, which paved the way for digital movie theaters. Headquartered in New York, SMPTE is comprised of engineers and other technical specialists, IT and new media professionals, filmmakers, manufacturers, educators and consultants in more than 65 countries. They are joined at SMPTE by more than 200 sponsoring corporations, principal players in content creation, production and delivery for all platforms and in entertainment hardware and software. Http://smpte.org
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