Profile: Ray Dolby (1933-2013)
2013; Institution of Engineering and Technology; Volume: 8; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1049/et.2013.1113
ISSN1750-9645
Autores Tópico(s)Music Technology and Sound Studies
ResumoThis paper look at the life work of the audio pioner. Dolby Laboratories was founded in London in 1965 by Ray Dolby, a young inventor and electrical engineer who had moved to the UK from the US to study for a doctorate in physics at Cambridge University four years earlier. The company initially had just four staff, but over the years would grow into a huge multinational organisation valued at several billion dollars and employing thousands across the globe. Ray Dolby was born in 1933 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in California. A boy of precocious intelligence, he joined Ampex, a company specialising in tape recorders, while still at school and went on to graduate from the elite Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1957. It's a little-known fact that he later went back to Ampex for a short period and worked on the development of the first home video recorder.
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