The great success of the Compact
Disc Digital Audio System (CD) and other digital recording systems
owe much to the work of Kees Schouhamer Immink whose coding methods
have had a great impact on data storage. The many coding systems he
developed are used in virtually all equipment for recording digital
video, audio, or data, for example, CD, CD-ROM, CD-I, MiniDisc,
CD-Video, DVD, Digital Compact Cassette (DCC),
OnStream 50 Gbyte tape drive, Digital Video Recorder
(DV), and optical Digital Video Recorder (BluRay). For the above work, he was granted 55 US patents.
Dr Immink was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences (KNAW), and holds fellowships of the IEEE, AES, SMPTE, and IEE. For his contributions to the digital audio and video
revolution, he received wide recognition. Among the honors he received are an Emmy Award by the US Television Academy, a Knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands,
the IEEE Edison Medal, the AES Gold and Silver Medal awarded by the Audio Engineering Society, the Golden Jubilee Award for
Technological Innovation awarded by the IEEE Information Theory Society, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, the
Poniatoff Gold Medal Award for Technical Excellence awarded by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE),
and the IEE J.J. Thomson Medal.
Kees Schouhamer Immink was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D degrees
at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is founder and president of Turing Machines Inc. Since 1995, he is an adjunct professor at
the Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Essen University, Germany.
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