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ABOUT MANIFEST TECHNOLOGY
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Douglas Dixon - Vita
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Douglas Dixon
Multimedia Technology and Communications
ddixon/at/manifest-tech.com
Manifest Technology,
LLC
www.manifest-tech.com
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Summary
Technology Analysis and Communication
Technology analyst, author and editor, seminar presenter / trainer
Expert witness
- Technical analysis and review: Evaluate technology, products, trends,
business
- Expert witness: Digital media and DVD, technology and products, business and market
- Books, articles, seminars, white papers, product marketing documents.
- Focus in multimedia: video editing, DVD, streaming media, mobile devices.
Technology Development and Productization
Product manager, Project leader
- Technology product development, across the end-to-end process of assembling
technology components and packaging into usable products to bring to market.
- Conceptualization, business analysis, partner relationships, technical
prototyping, development and integration, user interface refinement, business
development, productization, testing, marketing, sales, support.
- Focus in multimedia software development.
Professional Activities and Recognition
- Technical analysis and review: Evaluate technology, products, trends,
business
- Expert witness: Digital media and DVD, technology and products, business and market
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Sample projects
- Business plan / product marketing review
- New product / business concept development
- Technical product and market analysis
- Technical analysis of prior art
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- Technical product and marketing
communications
- Customers
include Adobe, Intel, Siemens, Sonic Solutions, Sony
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Selected corporate projects
- Technical marketing publications
- Technical case studies
- Product Reviewers Guides
- Technical training
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Books
Feature Articles
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Published over 260 feature articles since 1999
- Editor-in-Chief, IRMA's Mediaware magazine since
2006
- Contributor, Digital
Photographer
magazine
- Contributor, Condé Nast
Traveler magazine
- Contributing Editor, Internet Video Magazine
- Contributor, U.S. 1
Newspaper
Previously:
- East Coast Technical Editor, Camcorder
& Computer Video
- Contributor, DV Magazine
- Contributor, CNET Reviews
/ Computer Shopper
- Also Computer Video (U.K.), PC Magazine,
NJ Tech
Magazine
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Presented technical talks and seminars, and
organized conference sessions and programs, on topics including:
- Digital Video
- DVD Authoring
- Streaming Media
- Computer Graphics
- At national conferences including:
- National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) / Post|Production World Conf.
- Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) / Digital Media Training Conf.
- Government Video Expo /
DigitalMediaDC Conf.
- DV Expo East
- ShowBiz Expo NY
- DVD International Conference
- PC Expo / TECHXNY
- For corporate training seminars including:
- To educational organizations including:
- Princeton
University Lunch 'n Learn Information Technology Seminars
- Princeton
Public Library
- The College of New Jersey
- Mercer County Community
College.
- American Association of
Community Colleges
- Consortium of Distance Education
(CODE)
- New Jersey Library Association
- For local and regional professional groups including:
- New York chapter of the DVD
Association
- New York, Princeton and
Philadelphia chapters
of the Media Communications Association
- Princeton chapters of the ACM
and IEEE Computer Society
- Entertainment Technology
Conference - EnTech
- Trenton Computer Festival
- Philadelphia
Area Computer Society
- Princeton Macintosh Users
Group
- Princeton PC Users Group
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- Major projects: Advanced
technology protototyping and productization
Sarnoff Corporation
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Sarnoff Corp. (formerly RCA Labs), Princeton NJ (1993 - 2003)
Technology Leader; Product manager, Project
leader, Software developer
Received one individual and three team Sarnoff
Achievement awards
Project paper published in IEEE WACV
Three U.S. patents issued
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- JNDmetrix Visual Quality Analysis
Software
(2001 - 03)
Product Manager, Project Leader
Productized Sarnoff image quality
analysis technology
- LifeClips Automated Tape to DVD Conversion (1999 - 2000)
Prototype Team Lead
Developed prototype automated tape to
DVD conversion system
Company raised next round of funding,
transferred to factory
- VideoBrush PC Panorama Products (1995 - 99)
Product Manager, Project Leader for
Sarnoff's first retail software products
Shipped retail PC software products and
OEM SDK's
Received R&D 100 Award 1998
Bundled by Sony, Toshiba, Winnov, and
Rockwell/Conexant
Acquired by PictureWorks Corp., and IPIX
Corp.
- Sensar IrisIdent Prototypes (1995 - 96)
Project Leader for development of
product proof-of-concept prototypes
Achieved continued funding and
development, transferred to company
Funded by OKI and AT&T, acquired by
Iridian Corp.
- Virtual Reality Game System (1993 - 95)
Software Project Leader for virtual
reality entertainment system
Drove system architecture design and
implementation
Coordinated nation-wide development team
Hosted successful demonstrations and
market tests of game simulations
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Intel Corporation
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Intel Corporation, Princeton
NJ (1988 - 1992)
Digital Video Interactive (DVI) Technology
System Software Manager, System Software
Engineer
Paper published in Communications of the ACM
Two U.S. patents issued
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- DVI Audio Video Kernel (AVK) software product (1990-92)
Developed initial proof-of-concept
prototype for portable Audio Video Kernel
Technical Lead for joint Intel / IBM
team, developed architecture and design
Technical Lead for first implementation,
Project Lead for follow-up releases
Awarded "Best of Show" COMDEX
/ Fall 1991, evolved to Indeo products
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RCA Laboratories
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:David Sarnoff Research Center (RCA Labs), Princeton
NJ (1978 - 1988)
Member of Technical Staff
Received RCA Laboratories Achievement and
Software Recognition awards
Paper published and presented for ACM SIGGRAPH
Conference
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- DVI Prototyping and Initial
Product Development (1983 - 88)
Developed initial video / graphics system
software, tools, and demonstrations
- Interactive Consumer Electronics Products Prototyping (1979
- 83)
Designed and implemented product concept simulations
and prototypes
for interactive video and computer
graphics consumer electronics applications
Developed program and compiler testing tools
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- Received four Sarnoff and two
RCA Laboratories awards
Sarnoff Corporation
- Sarnoff Team Recognition Award, May 2001 (LifeClips DVD
video)
"For development of the LifeClips system for enhancement and
conversion
of home video to DVD and the web."
- Sarnoff Achievement Award, Sept. 1997 (VideoBrush
PC vision applications)
"For initiating and leading Sarnoff's program to bring computer
vision
to PC-based consumer products, including the creation of VideoBrush."
- Sarnoff Team Achievement Award, Sept. 1997 (VideoBrush
PC vision applications)
"For the development of a consumer level, PC software based mosaicing
product."
- Sarnoff Team Achievement Award, Sept. 1996 (Sensar
IrisIdent)
"For the development of a world leading biometric identification
system
based on remotely captured images of the iris."
Intel Corporation
- Intel Asilomar VI, One of 74 invitees to
corporate-wide technical conference, June 1992
RCA Laboratories
- RCA Laboratories Software
Recognition Award, Aug. 1986
Pascal Compiler Test Facility
- RCA Laboratories Outstanding
Achievement Award, May 1985 (DVI prototyping)
"For contributions to graphics and digital image software
for research in consumer electronics products."
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Sarnoff Corporation
- Fully automated iris recognition
system utilizing wide and narrow fields of view
U.S. Patent No.
6,714,665, Issued March 30, 2004
- Microscopy system utilizing a
plurality of images for enhanced image processing capabilities
U.S. Patent No. 6,313,452, Issued Nov. 6, 2001
- Method and apparatus for
performing local to global multiframe alignment
to construct mosaic images
U.S. Patent No. 6,078,701, Issued June 20, 2000
- Method and apparatus for mosaic
image construction
U.S. Patent No. 6,075,905, Issued June 13, 2000
Intel Corporation
- Method and apparatus for data
buffering and queue management
of digital motion video
signals
U.S. Patent No. 5,450,544, Issued Sept. 12, 1995
- Processor with hierarchical
memory and using meta-instructions
for software control of loading,
unloading, and execution
of machine instructions
stored in the cache
U.S. Patent No. 5,187,793, Issued Feb. 16, 1993
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- Papers published in
Communications of the ACM, IEEE WACV, Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH
- Technical Presentations at
Comdex, Government Video Technology Expo, ACM SIGGRAPH
Sarnoff Corporation (JND, VideoBrush, Sensar)
- Making Sense of Image Quality:
The JND Visual Quality Metric
Government Video Technology Expo 2001, Nov. 29, 2001
Washington Convention Center, Washington DC
- VideoBrush: Experiences with
Consumer Video Mosaicing
with H.S. Sawhney, R. Kumar, G. Gendel, J. Bergen, V. Paragano
Proc. WACV, Oct. 1998, pp. 56 - 62
(Fourth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision)
- VideoBrush PC Mosaic
Applications
Comdex Spring 98 / Windows World panel session, April 21, 1998,
"Are Computers that See, Listen and Learn around the Corner?"
- For Your Eyes Only: Personal
Identification Using Iris Patterns
Princeton Chapters of the ACM/ IEEE Computer Society, May 9, 1996
Intel Corporation (DVI Technology)
- Life Before the Chips:
Simulating DVI Technology
Communications of the ACM, 32, 7, July 1989
- Digital Video Interactive:
Technology and Applications
Advances in Computer Graphics
NY Chapters of the IEEE Computer Society and the NCGA, Feb. 1989
- DVI Video / Graphics
with S.J. Golin and I.H. Hashfield, Computer Graphics World, 10, 7, July
1987
- Warping Video to 3D Graphics
with M. Keith, Computer Graphics World, 10, 9, Sept. 1987
RCA Laboratories (Consumer Electronics Prototyping)
- A Core Graphics Environment for
Teletext Simulations
Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH '83, Computer Graphics 17, 3, July 1983
ACM SIGGRAPH '83 Slide Set, July 1983
- A Pascal Compiler Testing
Facility
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 17,1, Jan. 1982
Brown University
- Structured Programming in
Assembly Language
with A. van Dam et al, ACM SIGSE Bulletin, Dec. 1976
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- Local professional activities,
professional memberships
- Professional awards: IEEE Senior
Member, Sigma Xi
Professional Awards
- IEEE Region 1 Award, June 2001
"For Leadership of the Princeton Central Jersey Chapter
of the IEEE Computer Society and the Trenton Computer Festival."
- ACM Recognition of Service Award, May 2000
Presented to the Princeton Chapter for twenty years of service
(Over 200 meetings, 30 seminars)
- IEEE Senior Member, Elected March 1986.
- Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research
Society, Elected May 1977.
Professional Memberships
- ACM: SIGGRAPH
- IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE
Computer Society
- Sigma Xi
- DVD Association (DVDA)
- Media Communications Association
- International (MCA-I)
Local Professional Activities
- Princeton Chapters of the ACM /
IEEE Computer Society
Founder and first Chair, April 1980;
Board, 1980 - present; SIGGRAPH Chair
- IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey
Section
Chair, 1981 - 1991; Board, 1981 - present
- Princeton Chapter of
the Media Communications Association
Board, 2000 - present
- Trenton Computer Festival
Contributor, speaker; 1983 - 2000
- NJ Communications, Advertising
& Marketing Association (CAMA)
- Princeton Macintosh Users Group
- Princeton PC Users Group
Previous Activities
- Electro / 87 and Mini / Micro-87: Chair, Mini-Micro Professional
Program Committee
- RCA Laboratories Colloquium
Committee:
Chair, 1985 - 86; Member, 1984 - 87
- Occasional Journal Referee: WACV '98, ACM SIGGRAPH '95,
IEEE Computer '91,
Software - Practice & Experience '80's.
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Brown University
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Brown University, Providence,
RI (1977)
M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science, Magna Cum
Laude
Head Teaching Assistant, Teaching Assistant
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