ABSTRACT
Moorer earned an S.B. degree in applied mathematics from MIT in 1968, and had already picked up an S.B. degree in electrical engineering from the same university in 1967. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1975, and is a founder and director of advanced development at Sonic Solutions. He is an internationally known figure in digital audio and computer music, with over 40 technical publications and two patents to his credit. He personally designed and wrote much of the SonicSystem and developed the advanced DSP algorithms for the NoNOISE process, which is used to restore vintage recordings for CD remastering. To date, NoNOISE has been used in the production of over 50,000 CDs. While vice president of research and development at Lucasfilm Droid Works between 1980 and 1987, he designed the Audio Signal Processor (ASP), which was used in the production of sound tracks for Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and other high-impact films. Between 1977 and 1979, he was a researcher and the scientific advisor to IRCAM in Paris. In the mid-1970s he was codirector and cofounder of the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. In 1990, he received the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Silver award for Lifetime Achievement and in 1999 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film. Moorer is currently working at Adobe Systems, Inc. as senior computer scientist in the DVD team.
