Friday, November 21, 2008

ACM Interview: Tomlinson Holman

Winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, Mr. Tomlinson Holman is Professor of Film Sound at the USC School of Cinema-Television and a Principal Investigator in the Integrated Media Systems Center at the university.
Tom was chief electrical engineer at Advent Corporation, founded Apt Corporation, maker of the Apt/Holman preamplifier, and was at Lucasfilm for 15 years where he developed the THX Sound System and its companions the Theater Alignment Program, Home THX, and the THX Digital Mastering program.
He is founding editor of Surround Professional magazine, and author of the books Sound for Film and Television and 5.1 Surround Sound Up and Running. He is an honorary member of the Cinema Audio Society and the Motion Picture Sound Editors. He is a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the IEEE. He has lifetime or career achievement awards from the CAS and the Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association. Tom holds 7 U.S. and corresponding foreign patents totaling 23, and they have been licensed to over 45 companies.


Supplemental videos (.mov):

Does THX stand for Tom Holman Experiments?

Can you tell us the history of THX and how you came up with the idea?

How do you see the future of digital television and digital cinema?

How do you see the future of multichannel music?

What do you think about "Wave field Synthesis" and other researches in audio technology?

What is the next generation 10.2 channel sound system that you're working on?

[via Association for Computing Machinery]
[visit tmhlabs.com]

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