Profile: Ray Dolby (1933-2013)

2013; Institution of Engineering and Technology; Volume: 8; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1049/et.2013.1113

ISSN

1750-9645

Autores

JE Goodyer,

Tópico(s)

Music Technology and Sound Studies

Resumo

This 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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