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BitJazz Inc. Executive Profiles
Chief Technology Officer: Andreas Wittenstein
BitJazz Founder Andreas Wittenstein has been at the forefront of many fields in computer science,
especially real-time technologies exploiting information theory.
Outstanding inventions for which he was chief scientist and chief architect
include the patented Phonetic Engine,
the front end of the first real-time speaker-independent continuous speech recognizer,
winner of the DARPA Speech Understanding Competition;
Quick RenderMan, then the fastest 3D renderer, incorporated in the NeXT Step operating system;
Glimpse, the first real-time interactive 3D materials editor;
Pix + Pixie, the patented first full-screen full-motion high-fidelity movie codec,
still unmatched in quality and decompression speed,
used in the blockbuster Toy Story CD-ROMs and winner of the first QuickTime award;
and JavaMovie, a streaming movie codec for e-mail and web, with featherweight decompressor,
unmatched in decompression speed and resolution.
Andreas Wittenstein is also known for his extraordinarily tightly isophonous poetry,
which can be viewed on-line at his personal website,
andreaswittenstein.com.
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