Kees Schouhamer Immink
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (born 18 December 1946 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch engineer and co-inventor of the compact disc, DVD and Blu- Ray disc.
Life and work
Immink studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven. In 1985 he received his doctorate with a thesis on coding theory and information theory to the doctor.
From 1967 on, he worked at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven until 1998. He is from the founding in 1998 of the President of Turing Machines Inc. Since 1993, he also takes a visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics ( IEM) at the University of Duisburg -Essen in Essen true. He was president of the Audio Engineering Society 2001-2002.
Immink had filed in the course of his life more than 1000 international patents, the most famous was his Miterfindung the compact disc, DVD and Blu -Ray. Immink played a crucial role in the development of the coding technology, which took a significant impact on the audio and television technology. Among his contributions to EFM for Compact Disc and EFMPlus find for DVD.
In 2000, he was defeated by the Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix Knight of the Order of Oranje - Nassau ( Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau ). From the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ( NATAS ) in New York, he received an Emmy Award for Coding Technology for Optical Recording format 2003.
Honors
- 2007 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA
- 2004 SMPTE Progress Medal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- 2003 Emmy Award for pioneering work in the development of DVD
- 2000 Knight of the Order of Oranje -Nassau
- 1999 AES Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society
- 1999 IEEE Edison Medal
- 1996 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
- 1996 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences ( KNAW ).
Swell
- List of Emmy winners 2003