Ray Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the American engineer, movie director and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon. He was raised in San Francisco, California.
As a teenager, in the decade following World War II, Dolby held part-time and summer jobs at Ampex in Redwood Cit...
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Ray Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the American engineer, movie director and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories.
Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon. He was raised in San Francisco, California.
As a teenager, in the decade following World War II, Dolby held part-time and summer jobs at Ampex in Redwood City, working with their first audio tape recorder in 1949. While at San Jose State University and later at Stanford University (interrupted by two years of Army service), he worked on early prototypes of video tape recorder technologies for Alexander M. Poniatoff and Charlie Ginsburg. As a non degree-holding "consultant", Dolby played a key role in the effort that led Ampex to announce quadruplex videotape in April 1956.
In 1957, Dolby received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently won a Marshall Scholarship for a Ph...
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