David Carver

But Blackwave has two things going for it - Chief Technology Officer David Carver, and overall market trends.

Carver was previously director of research and development at video-on-demand company SeaChange (SEAC); prior to that, he worked at video conferencing supplier PictureTel Corp.In other words, he knows digital video very well, and understands its complexity.

David Carver
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David Carver, Chief Technology OfficerFor over 20 years, David Carver has led influential work in media computing and communications with extensive experience in technology development and transfer, business planning, and product development.

As Director of Research and Development at SeaChange International from 2000 to 2004, Carver developed the intellectual property, business strategy, partnerships, and product efforts that are now the basis of the company's personal television and advanced advertising products.He led development of core video-on-demand capabilities such as the new propagation service, advanced codec support, and IP delivery.He also fostered the engineering relationship with the company's first commercial telco customer.

From 1999 to 2000 Carver was a Director in the Strategic Initiatives group at PictureTel Corporation.He joined PictureTel to bring digital television technologies into their traditional products and services.

Previously, Carver was an Associate Director of the MIT Research Program on Communications Policy where he co-directed the project on Local Access Communications and directed the project on Multimedia Server Deployment for the US Army.Earlier, he held Visiting Scientist positions at MIT's Project Athena and Laboratory for Computer Science.

Carver began his career in 1982 at Digital Equipment Corporation developing workstation products and technologies, which included the industry's first commercial product based on the X Window System standard.

Carver is a member of ACM, IEEE, SCTE, and SMPTE.He holds several issued and pending patents.He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

But Blackwave has two things going for it - Chief Technology Officer David Carver, and overall market trends.

Carver was previously director of research and development at video-on-demand company SeaChange (SEAC); prior to that, he worked at video conferencing supplier PictureTel Corp. In other words, he knows digital video very well, and understands its complexity.

The panel's meeting included presentations from Julia Huff of the Copyright Office, Library of Congress; Kelly Frey of the Copyright Clearance Center; David Carver of M.I.T.'s Research Program on Communication Policy; and Jean Baronas, Xerox, Chair of the IISP's Electronic Publishing Framework Task Force.

David Carver , Research Program on Communications Policy of MIT

4.1 Electronic copyright registration

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David Carver began his presentation by describing the key problems in multi-party , open commerce : data representation and interchange in heterogeneous environments ; and cross-industry and international harmonisation.To overcome these problems , a family of standards are required for :.

header standarddescriptor frameworkspecific descriptor standards , eg copyright , originationdata transfer requirements concerning -
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For the descriptor , Carver argued that a common framework is required for accommodating the many descriptor languages which are already in use and for optimising importability/exportability , ie supporting the development , standardisation and cross-referencing of messages in use in diverse industries.The framework , therefore , should be capable of handling a range of application orientated information such as copyright , billing , origination , image filter history , related program information and data tagging.

4.4 Progress of IISP Working Group 2 Electronic Publishing Task Force