Banquet speaker: “The MP3 story and more: Perceptual audio coding from its beginnings to the present”

Summary form only given. Mp3 and other audio coders have definitely changed the world of media production, distribution and consumption like few other technologies before. Perceptual audio coding is present on virtually every portable device, cell phone, PC and home or automative sound playback facility. How did it all start and what happened then? The talk will go back to the beginnings of the mp3 times, illustrate the next coder generations and finally talk about current challenges in audio coding & multimedia.