- Karlheinz Brandenburg
Karlheinz Brandenburg (born
June 20 ,1954 , inErlangen ,Germany ) is anaudio engineer who has contributed to theaudio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known asMP3 .Biography
He received a Dipl. Ing. degree from Erlangen University in
Electrical Engineering (1980) as well as a Dipl. Math. degree inMathematics (1982). In 1989 he obtained hisPh.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering for his work on digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques. The research results of his dissertation are the basis of MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and most other modern audio compression schemes.From 1989 to 1990 he worked with
AT&T Bell Laboratories inMurray Hill , U.S. on ASPEC and MPEG-1 Layer 3. In 1990, he returned to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and, in 1993, he became head of the Audio/Multimedia department at theFraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen. Since 2000, he is fullprofessor at the Institute for Media Technology atTechnical University of Ilmenau . In addition, he is the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau.Brandenburg is a
Fellow of theAudio Engineering Society (AES) and head of the AES Standards Committee working group SC-06-04 "Internet Audio Delivery Systems". He has been granted 27 US patents as a co-inventor; all patents have multiple inventors.Awards
*1990 Graduation Award of the Technical Faculty, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
*1994 Fellow,Audio Engineering Society (AES)
*1996 Innovation Award: Approval of Bavarian State Government
*1998 Silver Medal, Audio Engineering Society, "for continued contributions and leadership in the art and science of perceptual audio coding"
*2000 Board of Governors Award, Audio Engineering Society
*2000 Ceremony of German Future Award of Federal President for developing of the mp3 format to Karlheinz Brandenburg, Harald Popp and Bernhard Grill
*2000 Consumer Electronics Society,IEEE : "Engineering Excellence Award, Region 10"
*2001 German Internet Award NEO
*2003 Publications Award, Audio Engineering Society
*2004 SPUTNIK Innovator Award
*2004IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award "for major contributions to digital audio source coding"External links
* [http://www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT)]
* [http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/ Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS)]
* [http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/fhg/iis/EN/profil/erfolge/index.jsp Information of the IIS about the German Future Award 2000]
* [http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/mt/ Institute for Media Technology of the TU Ilmenau]
* [http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=corp_level1&path=about/awards/sums&file=ibuka.xml&xsl=generic.xsl IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award]
* [http://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/ German Future Award]
*Association for Computing Machinery [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1027154.1027169 Video Interviews with Karlheinz Brandenburg]
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