Talal G. Shamoon is a

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executive, computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. In 2003 he became the

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of Intertrust Technologies Corporation. Starting in 1999, Shamoon has been involved in the development of digital rights management (DRM) technology which was first targeted to

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holders such as movie studios, music labels and publishers. He is the chairman of the developer community for the

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technology

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Biography

Shamoon worked at the

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Research Institute

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from 1994 to 1997 in the fields of signal processing and computer science. Shamoon joined Intertrust Technologies as a researcher in July 1997 where he worked with

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. Since then, he was executive vice president for business development and marketing, and head of Intertrust's initiatives in the entertainment and media sectors. He became CEO in 2003 when Sony and Philips acquired Intertrust and took it private. Shamoon was one of the authors of ''Secure spread spectrum watermarking for multimedia'' in 2014, a paper on

digital watermarking A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio, video or image data. It is typically used to identify ownership of the copyright of such signal. "Watermarking" is the process of hiding digital in ...

published in ''

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Transactions on'' ''Image Processing'' (Volume 6, Issue 12). This paper was awarded the Sustained Impact Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2015.

References

External links

IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

Nikkei Big Data Interview Article (English translation)

"Inventing the Internet of Trust" (blog post)

Watermarks in music? (article)
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