Earl Levine was one of the technical leaders in the fields of streaming media, data compression, and audio watermarking technologies during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and onward, winning the prestigious Capocelli Prize for data compression in 1997.[1][2]

His PhD work at Stanford University was early in the field of artificial intelligence, creating vector quantized autoencoder convolutional neural networks.[3] He then invented the lossless audio codec method used in Apple Lossless Codec and FLAC, used to create the largest collection of lossless audio at the time.[4][5][6][7][8] He worked at VXtreme until its acquisition by Microsoft. Following that he worked for Liquid Audio. Liquid Audio's patent portfolio, almost all of which he invented or co-invented, was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.[9] Since his departure from Liquid Audio, he has been involved with numerous Silicon Valley start-up companies.

He is also known for his successful hobby of training race horses including Fleet Crossing who won the Churchill Downs, MSW [10][11]

He established one of the first shared neighborhood wi-fi systems in 2002 [12]

He graduated from Richardson High School in the same class as Carla Overbeck.

His son, Gabrael Levine, is the inventor of the Blackbird bipedal robot[13] and the preeminent developer of the OpenTorque actuator.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Data Compression Conference - Capocelli Prize". www.cs.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  2. ↑ "Proceedings DCC '97. Data Compression Conference". Proceedings DCC 97 Data Compression Conference DCC-97. March 1997. pp. iii–. doi:10.1109/DCC.1997.581948. ISBN 0-8186-7761-9.
  3. ↑ Levine, Earl I. (1996). Stochastic vector quantization using neural networks (Thesis).
  4. ↑ US6043763A, Levine, Earl, "Lossless data compression with low complexity", issued 2000-03-28
  5. ↑ US6121904A, Levine, Earl, "Lossless data compression with low complexity", issued 2000-09-19
  6. ↑ US6125348A, Levine, Earl, "Lossless data compression with low complexity", issued 2000-09-26
  7. ↑ US6028541A, Levine, Earl, "Lossless data compression with low complexity", issued 2000-02-22
  8. ↑ US6118392A, Levine, Earl, "Lossless data compression with low complexity", issued 2000-09-12
  9. ↑ "Microsoft Rolls Out Rights Management Software". eWEEK. 2003-02-21. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
  10. ↑ "Earl Levine Horse Racing Nation Website".
  11. ↑ "Trainer Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  12. ↑ "Palo Alto Weekly: Networking with the Neighbors".
  13. ↑ "Gabrael Levine Development Website".
  14. ↑ "Hackaday OpenTorque Actuator; A powerful, compliant actuator for legged robotic Website".


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