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Leonardo Chiariglione
Vice President, Multimedia of Telecom Italia Lab
Chiariglione, Leonardo
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, a national of Italy, is Vice President, Multimedia of Telecom Italia Lab, the Corporate Research Centre of the Telecom Italia Group. In February 1999, he was appointed Executive Director of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), charged with developing technical specifications for secure digital delivery of music, position he held until March 2001.
Dr. Chiariglione originated and chairs the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), the ISO standardization group which produced the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards that support digital audio-visual applications on diverse delivery systems. Dr. Chiariglione also originated the Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC), the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the EURASIP journal "Image Communications".
Dr. Chiariglione obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin.
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