Robert Voigt
2000-Oct-20 12:04 UTC
[vorbis] mp3 inventors were awarded with "German Future Price"
I found that article: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-20.10.00-000/ and here's the official homepage of the price: http://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/dzp00_02/dzp00_02.html It's all in German, so I give a summary here: "The price of the German President for Technics and Innovation has been arwarded to the inventors of mp3, namely 3 people from Fraunhoffer's: Prof-Dr. Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Grill and Dipl.-Ing. Harald Popp." Another Fraunhoffer guy says: "We have always asked ourselves if we can win the race against the rest of the world. But we worked hard and we were always a bit better than our competitors. At an ISO-MPEG conference in Japan an American colleague blamed us to be too soft to our competitors. He said : 'good guys never win'. Today I know he wasn't right. "The German Future Price is awarded each year and entails DM 500,000 (roughly $ 250,000)." --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.