Earl Levine Explained
Earl Levine was one of the technical leaders in the fields of streaming media, data compression, and audio watermarking technologies during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and onward, winning the prestigious Capocelli Prize for data compression in 1997.[1] [2]
His PhD work at Stanford University was early in the field of artificial intelligence, creating vector quantized autoencoder convolutional neural networks.[3] He then invented the lossless audio codec method used in Apple Lossless Codec and FLAC, used to create the largest collection of lossless audio at the time.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] He worked at VXtreme until its acquisition by Microsoft. Following that he worked for Liquid Audio. Liquid Audio's patent portfolio, almost all of which he invented or co-invented, was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.[9]
He is also known for his successful hobby of training race horses including Fleet Crossing who won the Churchill Downs, MSW [10] [11]
He established one of the first shared neighborhood wi-fi systems in 2002 [12]
He graduated from Richardson High School in the same class as Carla Overbeck.
His son, Gabrael Levine, is the inventor of the Blackbird bipedal robot[13] and the preeminent developer of the OpenTorque actuator.[14]
References
- Web site: Data Compression Conference - Capocelli Prize . 2023-05-30 . www.cs.brandeis.edu.
- Book: March 1997 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/581948 . iii– . 10.1109/DCC.1997.581948 . Proceedings DCC '97. Data Compression Conference . Proceedings DCC 97 Data Compression Conference DCC-97 . 0-8186-7761-9 .
- Stochastic vector quantization using neural networks . 1996 . Earl I. . Levine.
- US6043763A. Lossless data compression with low complexity. 2000-03-28. Levine. Earl.
- US6121904A. Lossless data compression with low complexity. 2000-09-19. Levine. Earl.
- US6125348A. Lossless data compression with low complexity. 2000-09-26. Levine. Earl.
- US6028541A. Lossless data compression with low complexity. 2000-02-22. Levine. Earl.
- US6118392A. Lossless data compression with low complexity. 2000-09-12. Levine. Earl.
- Web site: Microsoft Rolls Out Rights Management Software. https://archive.today/20120729182202/http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,899756,00.asp. dead. July 29, 2012. 2003-02-21. eWEEK. 2011-05-04.
- Web site: Earl Levine Horse Racing Nation Website.
- Web site: Trainer Profile . 2023-05-30 . www.equibase.com.
- Web site: Palo Alto Weekly: Networking with the Neighbors.
- Web site: Gabrael Levine Development Website.
- Web site: Hackaday OpenTorque Actuator; A powerful, compliant actuator for legged robotic Website.
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