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Tomislav Uzelac is the Croatian programmer who wrote an amp MPEG audio decoder that is considered to be the first successful software MP3 player. [1] Two students from the University of Utah, Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev adapted the decoder (which was originally written for Unix-like systems) to work on Windows and made it the MP3 decoding engine for the original version of Winamp (it ...
Audio Highway's Listen Up player, the father of the MP3 player, won an Innovation Award from the Consumer Electronics Show in 1997 and a 1998 People's Choice Award at the 2nd annual Internet Showcase conference, held Jan. 30, 1998, and presented by Upside Media, Inc. and event host and co-founder, David Coursey.Because of his very early patents ...
He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he introduced a puzzle with a diamond shape and a hollow center, with the letters F-U ...
Some crossword designers have started including a metapuzzle, or "meta" for short, a second puzzle within the completed puzzle. [14] After the player has correctly solved the crossword puzzle in the usual fashion, the solution forms the basis of a second puzzle. The designer usually includes a hint to the metapuzzle.
MP3-history.com Archived 11 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine, The Story of MP3: How MP3 was invented, by Fraunhofer IIS. MP3 News Archive. Archived 3 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine – over 1000 articles from 1999 to 2011 focused on MP3 and digital audio. MPEG.chiariglione.org Archived 10 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine – MPEG ...
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. [1] Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression.
The original series, the B100 released in July 2007, was a line of 1 GB (NWD-B103/B103F) and 2 GB (NWD-B105/105F) multifunction MP3 player and voice recording function. It was the first Walkman digital music player to not require SonicStage software - allowing simple drag and drop [ 38 ] - but it has been shorn of the ability to play back ATRAC ...