JAMES D. “JJ” JOHNSTON JOINS NEURAL AUDIO AS CHIEF SCIENTIST
Kirkland,
Wash., April 7, 2008 – Neural Audio Corp., a
market leader in developing advanced audio and
surround sound technologies, announced today it
has appointed James D. “JJ” Johnston as its
chief scientist. Johnston joins Neural Audio
from Microsoft® Corporation, where he was audio
architect. “Neural Audio is focused on providing customers with innovative, easy to use, great sounding audio solutions,” said Geir R Skaaden, Neural Audio’s CEO. “We are excited to have JJ join our team. He shares our passion for sound, and his experience and depth of knowledge will solidify our ambition to be the undisputed technology leader in audio.”
Johnston has been called the “Father of Perceptual Audio Coding” for his pioneering contributions that revolutionized digital audio. His accomplishments during a 26-year career at AT&T Bell Labs, among other achievements, allowed for the distribution of digital music and digital audio over the Internet. As a technology leader at AT&T Research Labs, Johnston invented a number of basic techniques used in perceptual audio coding, especially in MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), MPEG-2 Part 7 and MPEG-4 Part 3 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC). He also was responsible for creating the standards used for coding audio-visual information in movies, video and music formats in a digital compressed format.
Johnston retired from AT&T Labs in 2002 and joined Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington as audio architect, where he designed and implemented all audio post processing functions for the Windows Vista operating platform.
Johnston is an IEEE Fellow, the recipient of the 2006 James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and a co-recipient of the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award. He also is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, has published more than 50 technical papers, and has been awarded more than 20 U.S. patents. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, both in electrical engineering.
ABOUT NEURAL AUDIO
Neural Audio, through its Neural-THX® Surround technology and unique audio optimization technologies, has become the key enabler in the delivery of high quality content for the TV, radio, game, Internet, home theatre and mobile markets. Key broadcast partners and customers such as XM Satellite Radio, Yamaha Corporation, Sony Corporation, Pioneer Electronics, Onkyo Corporation, Denon Electronics, Marantz America and Harris Corporation have adopted Neural Audio technologies to provide the best quality audio available today to their customers. For more information, please visit www.neuralaudio.com or www.neuralsurround.com.
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