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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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