Awards Banquet

Thursday, February 15, 2001

" Hall of Fame Awards Banquet

Welcome
Saul K. Fenster, Chair Emeritus

Grand Entrance
Candida Aversenti, Co- Vice Chair
2001 Special Awards
2001 Inventors of the Year
2001 Members of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

Chair's Message
Harry Roman, Chair
 , ! 2001 Advancement of Invention Award
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Advancement of Invention
Award was created to honor insti-
tutions or individuals in the non-profit
sector who are doing important work
to promote invention. This year the
New jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
recognizes the role that the New jersey
Technology Council (NjTC), Mount
Laurel, has played in nurturing, sup-
porting, and advancing the interests of
technology-driven businesses.
Technology-intensive businesses
have played a major role in New
jersey's economy since Thomas Alva
Edison set up laboratories in Menlo
Park and West Orange in the late
1800's. Today, New jersey leads the
u.s. in the number of significant
technological innovations introduced
in the past 50 years. Prior to the
formation of the New jersey
Technology Council in 1996, New
jersey had numerous professional
organizations dedicated to serving the
business community.
Throughout 1996! an increasing
number of New jersey chief executive
officers and business leaders expressed
the need for a strong umbrella organi-
zation to meet the technological com-
munity's unique requirements for
information, networking and represen-
tation in the publ ic arena.
Objectives of the NjTC include
offering companies the chance to
network, providing small to mid-size
companies with access to financing
and other entrepreneurial assistance,
and promoting the need for more
education about technology. The
council collects and disseminates
industry-related data! promotes the
development and retention of high
tech industry statewide and lobbies
for industry-related initiatives before
the New jersey Legislature.
The NjTC membership falls into
three categories. Technology members
are companies involved in the
research, development! manufacture,
or supply of high-technology products.
Five major industry councils comprise
this group. These councils focus on
key industry segments such as biotech-
nology/pharmaceutical, electronics,
information services/software! techno-
logically-innovative consumer prod-
ucts, and telecommunications.
Technology support members
include firms and institutions that pro-
vide professional, commercial, or edu-
cation services or products to
high-technology industries. Lastly!
members belong to business associa-
tions! economic development agen-
cies, entrepreneurial support groups,
and other non-profit groups.
Undergirding the value of the NjTC
to New jersey's high tech industry are
the 1081 member companies that have
joined since its establishment.
David Brown
Zel Products Inc.
ouglas Brown was in his East
Brunswick garage bundling
papers as part of his newspaper distri-
bution business when he grew frus-
trated by fruitless attempts to tie them.
He thought there had to be a better
way and later discussed his ideas with
his son David/ who was then in his
early twenties.
David/ who is now 33 and a North
Brunswick resident/ devised a suc-
cessful prototype for solving the dilem-
ma. He devised the "String Thing/' a
small, notched piece of recyclable
cardboard with a center hole/ slits on
the sides and an attached eight-foot-
long string.
The person tying up newspapers
loops the string around the materials,
pushes the stri ng th rough the center
hole and ties the bundle tightly. Next/
string is wrapped around the materials
the other way. Finally/ the string is
pulled into the side slots which finish
the tying. The entire process should
take less than a minute.
In addition to newspapers and mag-
azines/ Brown/s device can securely tie
junk mail/ loose branches/ and maybe
even old skis/ boards/ and other mate-
rials to be discarded.
Brown spent four years planning
how to manufacture and market his
invention. He and his aunt/ Virginia
Brown/ of South Orange, founded a
company/ Zel Products Inc./ based in
East Brunswick/ that now sells thou-
sands of the '/String Things// annually
to counties and municipalities. Regular
customers include Hudson County/ the
cities of Newark and Jersey City and
the townships of East Brunswick and
Egg Harbor.
Brown has retained Pittsburgh
Steelers football player Josh Miller to
market the invention. Miller appears in
uniform on the packaging with the
slogan: "Josh Miller Gets On The
Recycling Kick!" The /lString Thing// is
Brown/s first and only patent. Other
family members hold six unrelated
patents. Also named on the '/String
Thing/! patent are Brown's aunt/
Virginia, and his father/ Douglas.
Brown received a bachelor/s degree
from The Richard Stockton College of
New Jersey/ Pomona.
~: 2001 Special Awards
1907, in a section of Hopewell,
called Marshall's Corner, the
late Wellington Stockton Titus (1872-
1941) known to friends and family
as "Welling," made baseball history. As
catcher for the local amateur baseball
team, the Hopewell Athletic Club, Titus
invented and patented what he called a
"base ball back stop." Baseball lovers
today better know his invention as the
batting cage.
As the story goes, Titus disliked chas-
ing errant pitches and fouled back base-
balls. To save time and play more ball,
Titus created a portable batting cage.
His cage served as the prototype from
which the current baseball batting
cages have evolved.
The device was an immediate hit
and before the patent was approved,
Titus had signed an agreement with
A.G. Spalding and Brothers Company,
to manufacture his portable batting
cage. Spalding paid Titus five dollars
for each cage sold. The cage was a hit
because it was portable, stationary,
adaptable in and out of doors, and
prevented lost or stolen balls. Prior to
Titus' invention, baseball teams hired
young boys from the neighborhood
as ball chasers.
When Titus wasn't inventing, he
made his living moving houses. His
unconventional house moving methods
were said to amaze experts. It was not
unusual for engineering students at
nearby Princeton University to watch
his productions. To move a house, Titus
would often hitch a horse to a beam
which, in turn, was connected to a
windlass, a contraption used for hoist-
ing or hauling. Six to eight men would
then place heavy wood runners under
the raised house while six other men
soaped the runners to make the build-
ing slide. In later years, crank case
drainings were added to the soap to
make the house slide even more easily.
Although Titus had never received
a formal engineering education,
Hopewell residents considered him a
natural born civil engineer. Titus also
designed a baseball bat called the
"Black Diamond,n knitting needles, and
bootjacks, each one of which featured
the head of a different creature of
nature. Alocal foundry molded these
unique products.
 Fred Topinka
Topinka Associates, Inc.
uring a 40-minute power outage at
construction site beneath the
New York University Medical Center in
1991, a light went on for Fred Topinka,
Allendale. He wondered how construc-
tion workers could find a safe exit to
the stairs. The experience prompted
him to imagine what might be done to
help. In time, he imagined a hanging,
glowing lighted lamp cage guard made
of plastic that would glow in the dark
and lead construction workers in these
types of emergencies to safety.
In 1996, he was granted a patent for
a plastic lighted lamp cage made of flu-
orescent and phosphorescent materials.
The invention, marketed as a "Safety
Cage," can be used with any color
incandescent lamp and will continue to
glow a yellow-green color for approxi-
mately 20 minutes after the lights go
out. Moreover, the Safety Cage features
a horizontal arrow that remains illumi-
nated to show the way to a nearby exit.
A user can rotate the cage, using its
movable locking collar, to indicate the
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emergency situations, when electricity is
out and people need to locate an exit.
Today, on construction sites in public
places throughout the U.S., Topinka's
cages are used. Topinka co-owns West
Port Industries, Inc., Saddle Brook,
which manufactures the safety cages, in
addition to temporary lighting systems
for construction sites. In 1975, Topinka
founded Topinka Associates, Inc.,
Rochelle Park, a company that markets
and sells products for 15 electrical
manufacturers nationwide.
A Coast Guard Reservist from 1965
to 1971, Topinka, who received an
associate's degree in accounting in
1975 from Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Teaneck, was recognized in
the newest Whols Who publication for
his invention and entrepreneurship. In
1983, he received a Masters Club
award from American Saw and
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 you've noticed those omnipresent
plastic security tags hanging
from garments in stores, you're looking
at a component of an electronic sur-
veillance system invented by Dr. Philip
Anderson of Madison. This invention
helps prevent theft and shoplifting.
Earlier security systems were prone to
false alarms and poor detection rates.
In 1987, as president of the former
Livingston-based company, Identitech
Corporation, then a joint venture of
Allied-Signal Inc., Morris Township,
(now Honeywell International, Inc.,
Morris Township) and Sensormatics
Electron ics Corporation, Deerfield
Beach, FL, Anderson developed this
technology which uses amorphous
metal, another Allied product.
Anderson's electronic article sur-
veillance system consists of two parts:
A small strip of amorphous metal
attached to an item, and two electro-
magnetic sensors positioned near an
exit. When someone exits past the sen-
sors with an item still containing the
security tag, the metal strip within the
tag begins vibrating. The movement, in
turn, disturbs the detection system's
electromagnetic field and triggers an
alarm to warn store personnel of a
possible theft.
Hospitals use other versions of this
security system to protect babies from
possible abduction, and to prevent
patients from wandering away from a
convalescent or psych iatric faci Iity.
More than 164,000 of these systems
are installed worldwide. Owners of
discount, variety, home improvement,
hardware, entertainment, and specialty
stores, say Anderson's invention is
their top choice for security.
A professor of physics at Ramapo
College since 1990, Anderson teaches
introductory and advanced physics,
electronics and invention courses. He
has 20 years of experience with prod-
uct development and is a consultant to
Fortune 500 companies and the U.S.
Army. He has 29 U.S. patents and
more than 100 patents worldwide cov-
ering amorphous metals, sensors, and
medical, automotive and security
devices.
Anderson received a doctoral
degree in physics from Drexel
University, Philadelphia, PA, a master's
degree in electrical engineering and a
master's degree in physics, both from
Drexel University, and a bachelor's
degree in physics from Widener
University, Chester, PA.
J. Thomas Jennings
Container Manufacturing, Inc.

ne day as he watched his wife eliminates spillage, waste and misap-

pour laundry detergent into the
washing machine without measuring
the specified amount, j. Thomas
jennings of Mountainside knew there
had to be a better way. jennings spent
many hours over the next three years
cutting apart and reconfiguring hun-
dreds of plastic containers trying to
design a built-in measuring device.
The result of his experimenting was
a self-contained measuring chamber
within the container itself. This inven-
tion patented as the tip "N" measure
dispensing container, is available in a
variety of styles and sizes. jennings has
gone on to receive additional U.s. and
foreign patents for other measuring
and dispensing devices, including a
patent for his invention, the exact dose
tip "N" measure container. It has a
drain back feature that allows excess
fluid in the measuring chamber to
drain back into the container. A pre-
cise amount of fluid is dispensed.
After inventing the device in the
early 1980's, jennings founded
Container Manufacturing, Inc.,
Middlesex, to manufacture his inven-
tion. Since then, he has received 11
patents, with three others pending. The
company manufactures 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
jennings' new measuring device
plication of any concentrated liquid
product. It also minimizes the potential
for human contact with such toxic
materials as weed killers and paint
thinners. This occurs because the
package is not opened until the user is
ready to dispense the measured
amount of product needed. jennings'
invention is used worldwide.
The invention has won many pack-
aging awards, including awards from
the National Association of Container
Distributors, the Institute of Packaging
Professionals, and the World
Packaging Organization.
jennings, a native of Newark,
attended what was then Newark
College of Engineering (now NjIT)
following his U.S. Navy service in
World War II.
James D. Johnston
AT&T Labs Research
lectrical enginee ames D.
johnston, a Morris Township resi-
dent, has been called the father of per-
ceptual audio coding for his work in
audio sound at AT&T Bell Laboratories
since 1976. Today, he is a technology
leader at AT&T Labs Research,
Florham Park. His work has enabled
the distribution of digital music over
the Internet as well as digital radio.
Throughout the 1990s, johnston
invented a number of basic techniques
which are used in perceptual audio
coding and especially in Moving
Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Layer-3
(also referred to as MP3) and MPEG
Layer-2 Advanced Audio Coding
(AAC). MPEG (pronounced M-peg), is
the name of the family of standards
used for coding audio-visual informa-
tion (e.g., movies, video, music) in a
digital compressed format. AAC is an
audio compression format that is more
efficient than MP3.
The major advantage of MPEG files
compared to other video and audio
coding formats is that MPEG files are
much smaller for the same qual ity of
sounds and images because they use
sophisticated compression techniques.
johnston is hailed for making files
smaller because he found a way to
reduce the bit rate needed for trans-
mission or storage of audio by a factor
of ten or greater. Seven of johnston's
patents related to this new technology
were filed from 1991 to 1997. Lucent
Technologies, Murray Hill, now owns
them.
MP3 has been the motor of change
for the music industry. A large number
of new Internet companies use the
technology which has emerged from
this work as the foundation of the elec-
tronic music distribution business.
Sales of products directly based on
MP3 technology, like AAC players and
jukebox systems, are estimated to
reach $1 billion this year and at least
double that sum next year.
johnston was born in northeastern
Ohio. He received his bachelor's and
master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, in electrical
engineering with side interests in
mathematics, radio broadcasting and
coherent image signal processing. He
is a fellow of the Audio Engineering
Society, a senior member of the
Institute for Electronic and Electrical
Engineers, and has published more
than 50 technical papers and has been
awarded more than 20 U.5. patents.
Jack H. Winters
AT&T Labs Research

iddletown resident Jack H. Analysts expect these inventions to

Winters, Ph.D., a technology playa crucial role in the future of
leader at AT&T Labs Research, cellular phone systems by more than
Middletown, since 1981, pioneered doubling their capacity.
the application of adaptive antenna Winters received his bachelor's
arrays to cellular radio systems. His degree from the University of
work predated the deployment of the Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, and his
first cellular radio system in the United master's and doctoral degrees from
States. Ohio State, Columbus, OH, all in
Winters' most significant invention electrical engineering. He has written
was his 1996 patent for wireless articles in more than 25 journal publi-
systems entitled, "Block Radio and cations, authored more than 30 confer-
Adaptive Arrays for Wireless Systems." ence papers and been granted 10
The patent, in addition to earlier work patents in communications.
Winters had done, made the applica-
tion of smart antennas practical and
effective. The invention has enabled a
single base station receiver with wide-
band reception to process signals from
many terminals or multiple signals
from a single terminal. This invention,
coupled with Winters' other pioneering
work on smart antennas, is critical for
the growth of cellular phone use.
2001 Hall of Fame
Gerald R. Ash
AT&T Labs
Jersey native Gerald R. Ash,
who was born in Paterson and
lived for many years in West Long
Branch, started working for AT&T Bell
Laboratories in 1976 as a member of
the technical staff. Since 1998, he
has been a district manager of strate-
gic standards at the AT&T Labs,
Middletown.
Ash has made unique contributions
to the telecommunications industry
by inventing three dynamic routing
schemes, which were patented from
1982 to 1995. His schemes, based on
algorithms which he created with his
colleagues, reroute calls to avoid
delays due to network congestion
during peak times such as holidays or
natural disasters.
Dynamic Nonhierarchical Routing
(DNHR), the first of his routing
schemes, completes calls by access-
ing the available network bandwidth
without the limitation of hierarchical
routing rules. The routing changes
with the time of day to optimize
bandwidth utilization and to maxi-
mize completion rate. Reduced costs
and better service have resulted.
Real-time Network Routing (RTNR)
provides real-time adaptation of net-
work routing to changes in traffic.
This ultimately improves network relia-
bility and robustness while
minimizing capital investment.
End-to-End Class-of-service (ECos)
facilitated the introduction of key ser-
vice protections and premium service
quality in an efficient and cost-effective
manner.
Ash, a fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, in
1993 received his bachelor's degree
from Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, and his master's and doc-
toral degrees from California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, CA, all in
electrical engineering. He has received
a total of nine awards from AT&T, four
awards from Rutgers University and
three awards from the U.S. Army,
including the Bronze Star Medal for
Vietnam Service (1969-1971).
Harold S. Black (1898-1983)
Bell Telephone Laboratories
1927, the late electrical engineer
S. Black (1898-1983) former-
ly of Summit, was on a ferry heading
toward his office in New York City
when an idea that would change the
course of electronic communications
popped into his head. His idea was for
a "negative feedback amplifier," where-
by distortion is eliminated by feeding
back part of the communication signal
into the amplifier. At the time of his
invention, Black worked at Western
Electric's West Street Labs, New York
City, the forerunner of Bell Telephone
Laboratories.
Black sketched his idea on the only
paper available to him then, a copy of
The New York Times. He had been
researching the solution to distortion in
amplified sound for almost four years
before this breakthrough. It was proba-
bly the most significant patent of some
347 patents granted to him.
Early in his career, Black was
assigned the task of reducing amplifier
distortion so that a large number of
multichannel amplifiers could be
hooked up in random to carry tele-
phone calls over longer distances. The
job required an amplifier superior to
any then existing. Many other
researchers before Black were aware
of this need. On that fateful morning in
1927, Black realized that by utilizing
negative feedback, he could obtain a
desired reduction in distortion at the
expense of a sacrifice in amplification.
The theory was first used to improve
long-distance telephone service, and
has recently been appl ied to fields such
as biomechanics, bioengineering, digi-
tal computers, artificial limbs for the
disabled, automatic controls for wheel
chairs, and high fidelity sound repro-
duction. Many new weapons systems,
such as radar-directed bombing and
radar-controlled missiles, depend on
negative feedback for their success.
Throughout his lifetime, Black was
also a literary critic, teacher and lectur-
er. During World War II, Black was the
first to produce pulse modulation and
designed pulse code modulation multi-
channel microwave radio relay
systems, which today are widely used
for military and domestic uses.
Black graduated from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA in
1921 and received an honorary doctor-
ate in engineering from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. Born in 1898 in
Leominster, MA, Black adapted his neg-
ative feedback system to aid the blind
and deaf from 1966 until his death.
Black was inducted into the National
Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron, OH, in
1981 . He was awarded the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute's highest honor, the
Robert H. Goddard Award in 1981 for
recognition of outstanding professional
achievements. He also received 10
medals, 11 fellowships, nine awards
and numerous honors. Black wrote
Modulation Theory, published in 1953.
Donald L. Campbell
Homer Z. Martin (1910-1993)
Eger V. Murphree (1898-1962)
Charles W. Tyson (1900-1977)
Standard Oil Development Co. of New Jersey

our researchers from Standard Oil formerly of Elizabeth, the late Eger V.
Development Co. of New Jersey Murphree (1898-1962) and the late
(now Exxon) in Linden, achieved one Charles W. Tyson (1900-1977) both
of the most important chemical engi- formerly of Summit.
neering breakthroughs of the last cen-
Donald L. Campbell
tury. In 1942, the quartet,
Born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1904,
affectionately dubbed the "four horse- Donald L. Campbell, Bay Head, has
men" by their colleagues because of
always been fascinated by inventing
their team's effectiveness, developed
and solving problems. Campbell spent
the fluid catalytic cracking process.
41 years with Exxon, 25 of them with
This process, whereby large hydro-
Exxon Research and Engineering
carbon molecules are broken into
Company. In September 1999,
smaller ones at high temperatures,
Campbell was inducted into the
enabled petroleum refiners to trans-
National Inventors Hall of Fame,
form crude oil into high-octane gaso-
Akron, OH. In October 1999, he
line. Today, fluid catalytic cracking is
received the Ronald H. Brown
used worldwide to produce 500 mil-
American Innovator Award, presented
lion gallons of gasoline daily, approxi-
by the U.S. Commerce Department's
mately 50 percent of global demand.
Patent and Trademark Office,
Historians say that this invention was
Washington, D.C. He attended Iowa
instrumental to the Allies' air victories
State University, Ames, Iowa, and
in World War II. They also credit it
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with ushering in the age of the auto-
and Harvard Business School, Boston.
mobile in the last century and the
When he retired in 1969, Campbell
development of a multitude of other
had amassed 30 patents for Exxon.
refined petroleum products such as
plastics, fabrics and cosmetics. Homer Z. Martin
The four inventors - all of them Martin worked from 1937 until his
then residing in New Jersey - included 1973 retirement as a research chemi-
Donald L. Campbell, then of Short cal engineer at Exxon Research and
Hills, now of Bay Head, the late Engineering Company. His accom-
Homer Z. Martin, Ph.D. (1910-1993) plishments include garnering 82
patents. Martin received a bachelor's
degree in chemical engineering from
the Armour Institute of Technology,
Chicago, in 1931, and master's and
doctoral degrees in chemical engineer-
ing from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI. Upon retiring to Sun
City, AZ in 1973, he joined the Sun
City Symphony and Musicians clubs,
Fine Arts Society, Doctor's Quartet,
Sun City Chamber Group, and Men's
Golf Association. He was a member of
the American Chemical Society and
American Institute of Engineers.
Eger V. Murphree
Born in Bayonne in 1898,
Murphree moved to Kentucky with his
family as a youngster. He received a
bachelor's degree in chemistry and
mathematics and a master's degree in
chemistry from Kentucky University.
Upon receiving his degrees, he worked
for several years as a high school
teacher and football coach, then he
attended MIT. In 1924, he worked at
Solvay Process Company as a chemi-
cal engineer, and in 1930, joined what
was then Standard Oil Development
Co. of New Jersey. From 1947 to
1962, he served as president of
Standard Oil Development Company,
renamed Esso Research and Engineering
in 1955.ln 1956, he was given the job
of directing military projects related to
the guided-missile program.
He served one year as special assis-
tant to former U.s. Secretary of
Defense Charles Wilson. Murphree,
who also served as a member of
the committee that organized the
Manhattan Project, was widely recog-
nized as a leader in the fields of
synthetic toulene, butadiene and
hydrocarbon synthesis, fluid catalytic
cracking, fluid hydroforming, and
fluid coking.
Charles W. Tyson
Born in Chicago in 1900, Tyson
received his bachelor's and master's
degrees in chemical engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He served as director of the petroleum
development division before his
appointment in 1961 as special assis-
tant to the vice president of Exxon
Research and Engineering. At his
retirement in 1962, he held 50 patents.
Abdul Gaffar
Colgate-Palmolive Company
entists and researchers say the
most significant breakthrough for
dental health since the introduction of
fluoride in the 1950s was the 1988
discovery of Colgate Total, the nation's
first antibacterial toothpaste. Longtime
Princeton resident Abdul Gaffar, a
researcher and executive since the
early 1970s at Colgate-Palmolive
Company, Piscataway, invented the
four patents which contributed to the
product's discovery and success. Gaffar
is now vice president for growth tech-
nology development for the company.
When Colgate Total was introduced
in the United States in 1998, Business
Week magazine hailed it as one of the
year's best products. It is the first
multi-benefit product approved by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration for
the control of dental infections; 31
dental associations around the world
have endorsed it because it's been
cI in ically proven to reduce gi ngivitis
(advanced gum disease) up to 30 per-
cent. Studies show that by using
Colgate Total, consumers can not only
save their teeth, but up to $875 mil-
lion in annual dental care costs.
Moreover, an additional $400 million
is estimated to be saved from the
decline in treatment for advanced
periodontal disease, which the use of
this special toothpaste can prevent.
The active ingredient in Colgate
Total is triclosan, an antibacterial
agent. Gaffar's invention of a copoly-
mer delivery system for triclosan
allows the antibacterial agent to stay
on teeth as it acts to destroy bacteria
that tries to invade the teeth and gums.
Triclosan remains on the teeth for up
to 12 hours between brushings, pre-
venting formation of bacterial plaque -
the precursor of gingivitis.
Gaffar earned a doctorate in
immunochemistry/microbiology from
Ohio State University, Columbus, a
master's degree in bacteriology/chem-
istry from Brigham Young University,
Utah, and a bachelor's degree in
chemistry/bacteriology from the
University of Karachi, Pakistan.
Arun Netravali
Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
estfield resident Arun Netravali,
Ph.D., president of Lucent
Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, since 1999, is a leader in the field
of digital technology. His 1983 patent-
ed invention, liThe Video Signal
Interpolation Using Motion
Estimation," improved high definition
television (HDTV) plus benefited the
delivery of broadcast television, com-
pact discs, digital video displays, and
the Internet. The algorithmic principles
he used in his patent provide the basis
for coding and decoding various digi-
tal video signals.
Prior to Netravali's invention, efforts
to code and transmit video in digital
format encountered significant obsta-
cles. Earlier coding algorithms
obtained substantial compression
ratios but created problems like blur-
ring and other undesirable artifacts,
especially in rapid motion scenes.
Netravali realized that the required
transmission bandwidth for digitally
coded, full-motion video could be
reduced, without the loss of image
quality, by computing estimates of the
displacement of objects in the pictures.
In particular, he showed that displace-
ment estimates are best-formed recur-
sively, with updates being formed only
in moving areas of the picture.
Netravali received his undergradu-
ate degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Mumbai, India, and his
master's and doctoral degrees in elec-
trical engineering from Rice University,
Houston. He holds an honorary doc-
torate from the Ecole Poly technique
Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland. The
co-author of two technical books and
the editor of a collection of technical
papers, all about digital video, he has
also written and co-authored more
than 150 scholarly journal articles. He
holds more than 70 patents in comput-
ers as well as digital video technology.
His awards include a 1994 EMMY for
the HDTV Grand Alliance and more
recently in 2000, the Frederick Philips
Award from the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers.
Glenn A. Reitmeier
Sarnoff Corporation
ormer Ewing resident and Trenton
native son Glenn A. Reitmeier,
a researcher and manager at Sarnoff
Corporation, Princeton since 1977,
has been an important inventor and a
critical advocate for the creation of
high definition television (HOTV). His
1992 patent, "An HOTV Compression
System," described the key system
architecture for a packetized transport
layer that makes digital television a
flexible del ivery system for all types
of digital data.
The layer has become a crucial part
of the United States standard for digital
high definition television and the
MPEG-2 standard, established by the
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
MPEG (pronounced M-peg) is the
name of the family of standards used
for coding audio-visual information
(e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital,
compressed format.
Reitmeier has contributed to digital
television developments like object
coding and wavelet image compres-
sion in MPEG-4, advanced MPEG-2,
compressed bitstream processing,
improved integrated circuits for digital
television receivers, and the integration
of video in computers. He holds 45
patents in digital television technology,
with other patents pending.
Starting in 1989, Reitmeier led the
development of the Advanced Oigital
HOTV system, one of four competing
digital HOTV systems vying to become
the next standard for television in the
U.S. After successfu I testi ng of the sys-
tem, he became a key member of the
Oigital HOTV Grand Alliance, a group
of representatives formed in 1993,
with representatives from seven promi-
nent U.S. organizations that had devel-
oped competing digital HOTV systems.
The Grand Alliance, which received
the encouragement of the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission, created
a best-of-the-best of competing systems
to create a U.S. standard for HOTV.
Later, Reitmeier took a leading role
in the Advanced Television Systems
Committee (ATSC), the industry-wide
organization which formalized the
alliance's work to gain FCC approval
in 1996. To date, Canada, Mexico,
Korea and Taiwan have also adopted
the ATSC standards.
Reitmeier received his bachelor's
degree in engineering from Villanova
University, Villanova, PA, and his
master's degree in systems engineering
from the University of Pennsylvania
Moore School of Electrical Engineering,
Philadelphia. He was an adjunct
faculty member in the department of
electrical engineering at Villanova
University from 1980 to 1989. Since
1995, he has lived in Yardley, PA with
his wife Elaine and their two children.
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Public Service Electric & Gas, Chair Provost for the Earth Institute;
Columbia University
Candida Aversenti, President and
COO; General Magnaplate, Inc. Saul K. Fenster, President; New jersey
Co- Vice Chair Institute of Technology, Chair Emeritus

William O. Baker, Vice Chairman; Jeffrey George, Vice President,

New jersey Commission on Science Intellectual Property Management,
and Technology AT&T
Len Bearison, President and CEO; Samuel Goldfarb, Inventor
Technogenesis, Inc.
Carmine P. Iovine, Vice President,
Research & Development; National
Starch & Chemical Company
Jay Brandinger, President & CEO;
Westar Photonics Lucye Millerand, Coordinator of
Special Events, New jersey Institute of
Gil Buchalter", President;
Technology, Treasurer
Pharmaceutical Innovations
Greg Olsen", President; Sensors
William J. Burke, Vice President,
Unlimited
Intellectual Property and Licensing;
Sarnoff Corporation Melvin E. Kamen", Executive Vice
President; Revlon Technologies
Gert Clarke, Founder; New jersey
Business Industry Science Education Steven Kuznicki", Research Fellow;
Consortium, Co- Vice Chair Engelhard Corporation

Charles Dzuba, Senior Test Engineer; Roger Stricker, Intellectual Property

Public Service Electric & Gas Vice President; Lucent Technologies

* Member; New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

** Past New Jersey Inventor of the Year
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Les Avery", Sarnoff Corporation Steven Kuznicki", Engelhard

Corporation
James H. Blow, Jr.
Harry Roman, Public Service Electric
Tai-Ming Chu, New Jersey Institute of
& Gas
Technology
Larry Schmerzler, National Society of
Charles Covino", Founder, General
Inventors
Magnaplate, Inc.
Charles Dzuba, Public Service Electric
& Gas

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Technologies
Michael Johnstone, College-Bound
Student Athletes, Inc.

* Member, New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

** Past New Jersey Inventor of the Year
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generous support of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame makes it possible for us
to continue our efforts to nurture the spirit of invention in New Jersey.

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Public Service Electric & Gas Company
Sarnoff Corporation
Telcordia Technologies

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