Leonardo Chiariglione
Leonardo Chiariglione (born January 30, 1943 in Almese ) is an Italian computer scientist .
In 1988 he and Hiroshi Yasuda founded the MPEG group , which consisted of 300 professionals from 20 countries around the world. The group developed standards such as MPEG-1 , MPEG-2 , MP3 , MPEG-4 or MPEG-7 . He resigned as its president in June 2020.
Life
He obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino (1967), then received his Ph.D. Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1973. He then worked at the CSELT research center (from the IRI - STET group) from 1971 to 2003. Chiariglione speaks five languages, including German, Japanese, English and French.
He carried out many European cooperation projects such as IVICO, COMIS and EU 625.
The most famous project started in 1988. That was the activity of ISO standardization which became known as MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group or) (officially ISO TC97 / SC2 / WG8 / MPEG, now ISO-IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11).
This group has more than 300 experts from 20 countries and various industries in the digital audio and video. They produced the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards that have facilitated the digital audio-visual revolution.
He is currently CEO of Cedeo.net (as of March 2016).
Awards and honors
- Chiariglione received the IBC 1999 John Tucker Award, IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (1999), Kilby International Award (1998) and IET Faraday Medal (2012).
- He was appointed visiting professor at Information and Communication University, Daejeon , Korea in 2004.
- Chiariglione was made an honorary member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ) in October 2014.
Fonts
- The MPEG digital representation of information. Springer, New York / London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-6183-9 .
- The MPEG representation of digital media. Springer, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4419-6184-6 .
literature
- Franz Miller : The mp3 story. A German success story. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44472-0 .
- Jonathan Stars: MP3: The meaning of a format , Duke University Press, 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Moving Picture Experts Group at mpeg.chiariglione.org.
- ↑ MPEG | The Moving Picture Experts Group website. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Jan Ozer: MPEG: What Happened? streamingmedia.com, July 2, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Biography of Giorgio Dell'Arti
- ↑ About . CEDEO.net . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chiariglione, Leonardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Almese |