Harald Popp (born 30 September, 1956 in Erlangen) is a German

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. Together with

Karlheinz Brandenburg Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunh ...

, Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS),

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, Jürgen Herre (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread

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method for audio data compression.

Biography

Education

1975 Popp graduated with the

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( International Baccalaureate Diploma). Popp was educated at Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU),

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, where he studied

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from 1975 to 1981 and obtained a graduate Diploma.

Profession

From 1982 to 1984 Popp worked on a technology transfer project for

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of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. 1985 he became researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS-A) in Erlangen. From 1985 to 1990 was Popp development engineer for digital circuits on board-level. 1987 he started with the development of multi-DSP based real-time audio coding systems. Since 1987, he has been responsible for DSP-based real-time audio coding systems. 1990 he began with the development of studio audio codecs ("ASPEC 91") for high-quality sound transmission over ISDN telephone lines. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as Head of Hardware Group in the Information Electronics Department. From 1995 to 1997 he was Head of the video group in the Audio & Multimedia department and 1998 - 2003 Head of the Studio Department. Since 2004 until 2018 he was Head of Multimedia Real-Time Systems, with a focus on developing effective real-time implementations of audio and video coding. From 1986 to 2000 Popp developed together with

and

the

Audio coding format. For his contribution to this work he was awarded the

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Private Life and Hobbies

In his free time, Harald Popp works with his wife Isolde as the author of the fantasy role-playing game Midgard. Together they have two sons.

Bibliography

* Isolde & Harald Popp: ''Der Ruf des Roten Raben'' Franke, Elsa; Auflage: 1., 1993, * M. Dietz, H. Popp, K. Brandenburg and R. Friedrich: ''Audio Compression for Network Transmission'', Journal of the AES, Vol. 44, No. 1-2, 1996. * Isolde & Harald Popp: ''Midgard-Abenteuer: Der weiße Wurm'' Pegasus Spiele, 1998, * K. Brandenburg and H. Popp: ''An introduction to MPEG Layer-3'', Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS), EBU Technical Review, 2000
online
* Isolde & Harald Popp: ''Midgard-Abenteuer: Die Straße zur Hölle'' part 1, Stelzenberg: Elsa Franke, Verlag für F&SF-Spiele, 2011, * Isolde & Harald Popp: ''Midgard-Abenteuer: Die Treppe zum Himmel'' part 2, Stelzenberg: Elsa Franke, Verlag für F&SF-Spiele, 2011, * Isolde & Harald Popp: ''Unter dem Schirm des Jadekaisers'', Pegasus Spiele Gmbh, 2005,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popp, Harald 1956 births Living people 20th-century German inventors German audio engineers German electrical engineers University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni People from Erlangen Engineers from Bavaria