MIT Getting Millions For Digital TV Deal

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Am I missing something or does this sound fishy?

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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:56:34 -0500
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MIT Getting Millions For Digital TV Deal

By Keith J. Winstein

NEWS EDITOR

MIT will receive $30 million from Dolby Laboratories, the result of
Dolby's selection as the national standard for digital television
audio in the U.S. and a subsequent lawsuit settlement.

A crucial vote cast in favor of Dolby by Jae S. Lim '74, an MIT
professor of electrical engineering, helped select Dolby as the
standard for digital television audio in the United States. Lim cast
MIT's 1993 vote in favor of Dolby's technology in the television
industry "Grand Alliance" to draft a unified recommendation to the
Federal Communications Commission. He is expected to receive more
than $8 million from Dolby's payments to MIT, said Jack Turner, the
associate director of the Technology Licensing Office.

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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N54/54hdtv.54n.html


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