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Mario Kovač is a
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n computer engineering professor and inventor. He is a professor at the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing ( hr, Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva, abbr: ''FER'') is a faculty of the University of Zagreb. It is the largest technical faculty and the leading educational as well as research-and-de ...
(FER) at the University of Zagreb who specialized in
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and was also involved in the creation of the early
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. Kovač graduated from the aforementioned university faculty in 1988, and obtained a master's degree in 1991. In 1991 he received a VLSI and Computer Architecture Scholarship at the
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, and he subsequently received the Fulbright Award in 1993. Kovač obtained a doctorate at FER in 1995. He holds for a VLSI circuit structure for implementing the JPEG image compression standard, among others. In 1995 he received the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on VLSI Design. In 1996, one of Kovač's students,
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wrote the
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as his diploma thesis under the tutelage of Kovač. In 1997, American media entrepreneur Brian Litman met Uzelac and they jointly formed a partnership Advanced Multimedia Products (AMP) in order to market the AMP MP3 engine. Shortly after, in 1998, Uzelac introduced Litman to his professor Kovač. They agreed to merge the original Advanced Multimedia Products partnership of Litman/Uzelac into a broader digital media enterprise called PlayMedia Systems. The venture was formed to capitalize on the growing popularity of the core AMP MP3 technology. In particular, AMP began to realize rapid usage due to its usage for the MP3 decoder function in
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which is a portmanteau of Windows + AMP. Kovač became founding CTO of this firm, whose mandate was to develop
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technologies. Between 1998 and 2000 Kovač was the head of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at FER, and between 2000 and 2002 he was the vice-dean for management. In 2008, the President of Croatia awarded him with the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Ruđer Bošković for special merit in science. He is a member of the supervisory boards of Croatian agencies/companies
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(since 2004), HIT - Croatian Institute of Technology (since 2006), and
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(since 2004).


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External links


Mario Kovač at the official FER web site
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Mario Kovač - List of papers - "Croatian scientific bibliography"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kovac, Mario Academic staff of the University of Zagreb 21st-century Croatian scientists Croatian inventors Croatian engineers University of South Florida alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb alumni