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Since joining the company in 1997, Steve Jacobs has been charged with overseeing the strategic, technical, and architectural aspects for all product development at Dolby Laboratories. This includes products for broadcast, professional audio, traditional cinema, and, most recently, Dolby’s design efforts for digital cinema. Among his many contributions to the company are his leadership in the development efforts that brought to market a dozen professional broadcast products, including Dolby E, and enabled digital television to deliver multichannel audio to the public. Prior to joining Dolby, Steve was the Director of Electrical and Acoustic Engineering for Plantronics, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s wireless program as well as the electrical and acoustical designs in its products.
Steve received a BS degree in mathematics and physics from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a PhD degree in physics from Syracuse University. He is the coinventor on several patents in the wide-ranging fields of wireless communications, electrical and mechanical designs, and materials processing.
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