Kees A. Schouhamer Immink
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (born December 18, 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 .
From 1967 he worked in the Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven until 1998. He has been President of Turing Machines Inc. since it was founded in 1998. From 1993 to 2014 he also held a visiting professorship at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics (IEM) at the University of Duisburg-Essen true in food . He was President of the Audio Engineering Society 2001-2002.
Immink has registered over 1000 international patents in the course of his life, the best known being his co-invention of the compact disc , DVD and Blu-Ray . Immink played a crucial role in the development of coding technology that made a significant impact on audio and television technology. Among his contributions are EFM for Compact Disc and EFMPlus for DVD.
In 2000 he was made Knight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau) by the Queen of the Netherlands Beatrix . In 2003 he received an Emmy Award for Coding Technology for Optical Recording Formats from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in New York . On October 18, 2014, he was awarded the Eduard Rhein Foundation's Technology Prize in the Hall of Honor of the German Museum in Munich .
Honors
- 2017 IEEE Medal of Honor
- 2015 Faraday Medal from the IEE
- 2014 technology award from the Eduard Rhein Foundation
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Johannesburg
- 2007 Foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering
- 2004 SMPTE Progress Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- 2003 Emmy Award for pioneering work in DVD and BD development
- 2000 Knight of the Order of Oranje-Nassau
- 1999 AES Gold Medal from 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).
- 1990 IEEE Fellow
swell
- List of Emmy Winners 2003 ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Codes for Mass Data Storage Systems, Second fully revised edition , Shannon Foundation Publishers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Nov. 2004. ISBN 90-74249-27-2 [1]
- The Compact Disc Story , AES Journal, pp. 458-465, May 1998 [2] (pdf; 144 kB).
- The future of digital audio recording , AES Journal, pp. 171–172, 1999 [3] (PDF; 321 kB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Norbert Lossau: Disc inventor: Why 74 minutes fit on a CD. In: welt.de . October 18, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ^ IEEE Fellows Directory , accessed March 16, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schouhamer Immink, Kees A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Immink, Kees; Schouhamer Immink, Kornelis Antonie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch electrical engineer and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam |