Panel Discussion: Who Owns the Living Room?
Date: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:00-9:30PM
Location: Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University.

Last Updated: July 5, 2006

James Akiyama
No Bio Available.

 

Bob Brummer is the Director of Home Networking Standards at Microsoft Corporation. Bob is responsible for helping define and execute Microsoft’s company-wide standards strategies for connected PC, CE, and Mobile entertainment products. In this role he is actively working with the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), Mobile Digital TV Alliance (MDTVA), and other standards/industry bodies on developing interoperable solutions for networking entertainment and consumer content.

Prior to Microsoft, Bob was the Director of Technology Strategy at Dolby Laboratories and managed their audio programs in the computer, internet, gaming, and home networking segments. His programs included the Apple's iTunes and iPod music store/player, and the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox game consoles. Bob has also held senior management positions at Cirrus Logic in Audio, Video, and Mass Storage.

Bob has an MBA from UCLA and a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

 

Bill Curtis
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Eugene Shteyn is responsible for Philips technology work in Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), and is a Board Member (alternate) of the organization. Eugene started working on early concepts of digital living room in 1996, when he joined Philips Multimedia Center in Palo Alto, CA. He was the first chair of the UPnP AV committee that developed initial version of the standard's discovery and control architecture for networked IP-based media devices. First, as a Principal Scientist at Philips Research, and then, as an Innovation Manager at Philips Components and CE,, Eugene was instrumental in developing Philips technology vision for the "Connected Planet".

Eugene is a named author on 19 US Patents, with over 30 patents pending in the areas of networked media, software architecture, internet services, and etc. He also teaches Principles of Invention at Stanford Continuing Studies program.

 

Alan Messer is the lead of a department in Samsung Electronics Corporate R&D on home networking. He is also chair of the UPNP forum and Director on the board of DLNA.

 

Glen Stone is currently directing projects related to Home Networking of Audio/Video devices. Mr. Stone's group is active in various standards related to AV home networking. Mr. Stone is the Chairman of the Technical Committee in the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA.org) and Sony's representative in the UPnP steering committee. Within the Consumer Electronics Association (ce.org) he has chaired the Wireless AV Networking subcommittee.

Previously, Mr. Stone's engineering group developed 1394 chips for Sony's popular VAIO portable PC line as well as AV hard disk drives. Mr. Stone's architecture group released Sony Electronics' first contribution to open source Linux. The software release, named TrueTime, is designed for embedded Linux systems requiring guaranteed A/V processing capability using low cost general purpose hardware and software.

Prior to joining Sony, Mr. Stone spent 10 years at Apple Computer, in the Advanced Technology Group researching VLSI architectures for processing A/V algorithms and multiprocessing. Mr. Stone is the holder of more than 20 patents, and has published numerous papers related to communications and processing technologies.

Mr. Stone received his M.Sc and B.Sc from the University of Calgary, AB Canada

 

Hisafumi Yamada, professor and founding director of The Center for Human
Quality of Life through IT at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan since 2004, directs cooperation activity between the center and AV products and semiconductor manufactures of electronics industry.

He received B.S. degree from Tokyo University and joined Sony Corporation (1970), where he developed ghost canceller (1980), computer controlled TV (1988), MUSE HDTV (1992), STB for DIRECTV (1995) and HD-ATV (1998).

He received a best paper award of IEEE consumer electronics society (1980).


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