Harald Popp (electrical engineer)

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Harald Popp (* the 30th September 1956 in Erlangen ) is a German engineer of electrical engineering . He was involved in the development of the MP3 format and the audio compression process and is one of his fathers alongside Bernhard Grill and Karlheinz Brandenburg .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1975, he studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (1981 graduation as a graduate engineer in electrical engineering). From 1982 to 1984 he worked on a technology transfer project for cable fault location at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 1985 he has worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen. Since 1987 he has been responsible for DSP- based real-time audio coding systems. Until 2018 he was head of the "Multimedia Real-Time Systems" department, his research focus was the development of effective real-time implementations of audio and video coding processes.

In his free time, Harald Popp and his wife Isolde write the fantasy role-playing game Midgard . They have two sons together.

Awards

Publications

  • Isolde & Harald Popp: The Call of the Red Raven Franke, Elsa; Edition: 1st, 1993, ISBN 3-924714-18-5 .
  • M. Dietz, H. Popp, K. Brandenburg and R. Friedrich: Audio Compression for Network Transmission , Journal of the AES, Vol. 44, No. 1-2, 1996.
  • Isolde & Harald Popp: Midgard Adventure: The White Worm Pegasus Games, 1998, ISBN 3-930635-57-7 .
  • Isolde & Harald Popp: Midgard Adventure: The Road to Hell part 1, Stelzenberg: Elsa Franke, Verlag für F & SF-Spiele, 2011, ISBN 978-3-924714-35-2 .
  • Isolde & Harald Popp: Midgard Adventure: The stairs to heaven part 2, Stelzenberg: Elsa Franke, Verlag für F & SF-Spiele, 2011, ISBN 978-3-924714-36-9 .
  • Isolde & Harald Popp: Under the umbrella of the Jade Emperor , Pegasus Spiele GmbH, 2005, ISBN 978-3-930635-91-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Popp, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH gain