Mario Kovač (scientist)
Mario Kovač is a
MP3 player as mentor to Tomislav Uzelac
.
Kovač graduated from the aforementioned university faculty in 1988 and obtained a master's degree in 1991. In 1991 he received a VLSI and
Fulbright Award in 1993. Kovač obtained a doctorate at FER in 1995. He holds U.S. patent 5,659,362 for a VLSI circuit structure for implementing the JPEG image compression standard, among others. In 1995 he received the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on VLSI Design
.
In 1996, one of Kovač's students,
WinAmp which is a portmanteau of Windows + AMP.[4] Kovač became the founding CTO of this firm, whose mandate was to develop digital media technologies.[5]
Between 1998 and 2000 Kovač was the head of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at FER, and between 2000 and 2002 he was the vice-dean for management.
In 2008, the President of Croatia awarded him with the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Ruđer Bošković for special merit in science.
He is a member of the supervisory boards of Croatian agencies/companies
BICRO
(since 2004).
References
- ISBN 9781608458028.
- ^ "Tomislav Uzelac".
- ^ "World's Top 10 Serial Entrepreneurs".
- ^ "Find out What Company Invented the MP3 Player". 31 October 2010.
- ^ "PlayMedia® – Patents".
External links
- Mario Kovač at the official FER web site
- Mario Kovač at the Who is Who in Croatian Science
- Mario Kovač - List of papers - "Croatian scientific bibliography"