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Kees (Kornelis) Antonie Schouhamer Immink was born in Rotterdam , The Netherlands , on December 18 , 1946 . He received a Bachelor's degree from the Rotterdam Polytechnic (1967), Masters degree in Electrical Engineering (1974, cum laude) and a PhD (1985) from Eindhoven University Of Technology . From 1967-1998, he was with Philips Research Labs , Eindhoven , The Netherlands . In 1998, he founded Turing Machines Inc , where he currently serves as its president. In addition to this he has been an adjunct professor at Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University Of Duisburg And Essen , Germany , since 1994 as well as affiliated with the Data Storage Institute , Singapore , as a Distinguished Visiting Professor since 1997. BIOGRAPHY For more than 30 years, Kees Schouhamer Immink has been in the very forefront of the research of digital recording products. Many aspects of recording systems have gained from Immink's creativity, including, notably, coding technology, electronics, Servo Design and performance, playing behavior, system control and protection. He has been instrumental in the design and development of coding technologies of a wide variety of consumer-type video, audio, and data recorders such as
He was a prominent member of the Philips/Sony experts group that was responsible for the design of the Compact Disc standard, the Red Book , in 1979-1980. He removed a major obstacle of a successful introduction of the Compact Disc and other digital optical discs by inventing an efficient technique to improve playing time and disc playability EFM and EFMPlus . His techniques have found widespread application in CD , DVD , and Blu-Ray Disc systems and all their offspring. His creative research resulted in around 1000 foreign patents. AWARDS AND HONORS (SMPTE), 2004, For the central role played in research and development of audio and video recording products. {Link without Title} 2003, For coding technology for optical recording formats. (IEEE), 2000. For significant contributions to the advancement of consumer audio technology. contributions to the technologies of digital video, audio, and data recording. For pioneering contributions to consumer digital audio and video recording products. the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 1994, For outstanding contributions to the development of new techniques and/or equipment that have contributed to the advancement of audio or video magnetic recording and reproduction. 1993, For distinguished contributions to electronics. For major contributions to the development of digital audio recording systems. REFERENCES
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