FREE :
"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: *francisca@iirx.com.sg* <mailto:francisca@iirx.com.sg> or tel: 63192668 by 23^rd February 2005. There are limited seats