Toshitada Doi
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Toshitada Doi (土井利忠) (1943) is a Japanese electrical engineer, who played a significant role in the digital audio revolution. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1964, and a PhD from Tohoku University in 1972. He joined Sony Japan in 1964. He started the first digital audio project within Sony. He was the driving force behind the PCM adaptor, and was a prominent member of the Sony/Philips taskforce responsible for the design of the Compact Disc[1]. He created, among others, the CIRC error correction system[2]. He was the lead engineer of the DASH multi-track digital audio tape recorder[3]. In the 1990s, he headed Sony's Digital Creatures Laboratory, where he was responsible for the Aibo[4], Sony's robotic dog. In 2003, Doi created the Qrio, a running humanoid robot.
[edit] Awards and honors
- Fellowship, Audio Engineering Society
- Eduard Rhein Prize, 1981[5]
- Silver Medal, Audio Engineering Society[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Steve Knopper. Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Free Press/Simon & Schuster.
- ^ "The Compact Disc Turns 25 by Robert Harley". http://www.seeeach.com/doc/199857_PRESS_INFORMATION. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
- ^ "Magnetic recording: the first 100 years by Eric D. Daniel, C. Denis Mee, Mark H. Clark". http://books.google.nl/books?id=7WrCSCqMk5gC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=dash+doi+tape+multitrack&source=bl&ots=F1pQVluevi&sig=SKwflCzHeXvv_1jLzi4dYJMfKHE&hl=nl&ei=tmqKSutH35mMB4GTsVs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=dash%20doi%20tape%20multitrack&f=false. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
- ^ "Toshitada Doi, Machine learning luminary - and AIBO's first master". http://www.eetimes.com/disruption/profiles/doi.jhtml. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ "Award Winners Eduard Rhein Prize". http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/hauptseite_e.html. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ AES Awards winners
