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Meet an Engineer Whose Work Optimizes Your Streaming Video Experience

Alan Bovik has a storied career. An American engineer, vision scientist and Primetime Emmy Award winner, Bovik holds the Cockrell Family Endowed Regents Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been the Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering for more than three decades.

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The Science Behind Music: How Dıgial Signal Processing Powers Our Favorite Tunes

What if we lived in a world without music?  It’s utterly unthinkable. Music has long been an important part of human life.  Researchers found human remain alongside flutes made from animal bones dating more than 40,000 years ago1.  In ancient Greek mythology, muses were goddesses or water nymphs, inspiring humans in the fields of art and science, and spurring incredible developments2.

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