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Karlheinz Brandenburg

Karlheinz Brandenburg born 1954 in Erlangen, Germany is most known for inventing the audio compression scheme MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3.

1980 Master of Science in Electrical engineering
1982 Master of Science in Mathematics
1989 Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical engineering
1989 - 1990 worked at AT&T Bell Labs, USA
1990 returned to Erlangen to research on audio coding techniques
1993 appointed head at the Fraunhofer Institute für Integrierte Schaltungen[?] (Fraunhofer IIS-A)

He also authored a book called Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. He currently holds 24 different patents on audio coding techniques, with several more pending.

More info on Brandenburg (http://leonardo.telecomitalialab.com/icjfiles/mpeg-4_si/9-natural_audio_paper/authors)

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