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This is the person of which the Fraunhofer Institute is named in honor. Among other things, they also developed the MP3 coding format. https://en.wikipedia.org
by basementcat 6y ago
This is the person of which the Fraunhofer Institute is named in honor. Among other things, they also developed the MP3 coding format.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society
- taejo 6y agoMinor nitpick: the Fraunhofer Society is an organization with multiple Institutes across Germany (plus some Centers outside Germany), each working on different areas of applied science. MP3 was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications.
- 4k05 6y agoSince we are nitpicking...mp3 was invented by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications is a relatively new addition to the Fraunhofer Society, before 2003 it was called Heinirch Herz Institute. If I recall correctly, HHI was instrumental in developing the H.256 Video Coding Standard
- taejo 6y agoThat's what I get for just skimming the Wikipedia article. Thanks.
- amelius 6y ago> they also developed the MP3 coding format. Why did they name their format after the litigous MPEG group, while in fact it was (afaik) an open format?