Mr. Eric Hamilton

ERIC HAMILTON, CHIEF SCIENTIST, AGE 51.Mr. Hamilton is a leading compression scientist and past chair of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for developing the successful JPEG image coding standard and JPEG 2000, a standard that uses state-of-the-art compression techniques based on wavelet technology.He has served as Chief Scientist at HHE since April 2003.In 1988, Mr. Hamilton helped found C-Cube Microsystems, Inc., where he played a key role in developing the architectures of the early JPEG and MPEG semiconductor products.From 2000 to 2002, he served as Chief Technical Officer of Compression Science Corporation.He has held senior positions with several other Silicon Valley digital video companies, including Compression Labs, Inc., StarSignal, Inc. and Margi Systems, Inc.

"The security and integrity of compressed content is extremely high with the HHe format due to the encryption scheme and other features we've employed specifically to thwart HHe-formatted content from being Napsterized," said Eric Hamilton, chief scientist of HandHeld Entertainment in a September news release.

Eric Hamilton, Chief Science Officer

Eric Hamilton has spent 23 years in the digital video, audio and still image industries. At C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Hamilton played a key role in developing the architectures of the early JPEG and MPEG semiconductor products. Later, he was the lead engineer for the firmware development team working on C-Cube's family of MPEG video and MPEG/Dolby AC3 audio decoders for digital set-top boxes and other broadcast applications. Consistent with his industry status, Hamilton served for three years as the chairman of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for establishing the worldwide standards for compression of still pictures. He has held senior positions with several Silicon Valley imaging companies, including Compression Labs, Inc., StarSignal, Inc. and Compressent Corporation. Hamilton holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from San Jose State University.

Eric Hamilton, Chief Science Officer

Eric Hamilton has spent 23 years in the digital video, audio and still image industries.At C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Hamilton played a key role in developing the architectures of the early JPEG and MPEG semiconductor products.Later, he was the lead engineer for the firmware development team working on C-Cube's family of MPEG video and MPEG/Dolby AC3 audio decoders for digital set-top boxes and other broadcast applications.Consistent with his industry status, Hamilton served for three years as the chairman of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for establishing the worldwide standards for compression of still pictures.He has held senior positions with several Silicon Valley imaging companies, including Compression Labs, Inc., StarSignal, Inc. and Compressent Corporation.Hamilton holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from San Jose State University.

The company has a world-renowned technology team that includes Eric Hamilton, former chairman of the International JPEG Committee, and Dr. Andrew Tescher, the current head of the U.S. delegation to SC29, the plenary group over the International MPEG and JPEG committees.

"The HHe video compression technology is a proprietary algorithm that was developed specifically to produce superior compression performance yet maintain reasonable complexity in decompression," said Eric Hamilton, chief scientist of HandHeld Entertainment."Also, the security and integrity of compressed content is extremely high with the HHe format due to the encryption scheme and other features we've employed specifically to thwart HHe-formatted content from being Napsterized."Hamilton leads a team of scientists that developed the compression technology used in the HHe format.As a world-renowned compression scientist, he also served as chair of the International JPEG Committee for three years and provided leadership during a period in which the committee published the first three International Standards commonly known today as "JPEG.""Because of the nature of the HHe multimedia format developed by Eric and his team, HandHeld Entertainment has been able to make great strides in exploring devices like the ZVUE! personal video player that can use HHe as the standard for playing video and other multimedia content on hand-held devices," said Nathan Schulhof, chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment and the credited inventor of the MP3 player.

Eric Hamilton has served as chief scientist at HandHeld Entertainment since April 2003.He is a leading compression scientist and past chair of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for developing the successful JPEG image-coding standard and JPEG 2000.

Eric Hamilton, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Eric has spent 30 years in the digital video, audio, and still picture industries with seven Silicon Valley companies. Most recently he was Chief Scientist of HandHeld Entertainment where he had responsibility for specifying and developing the company's compression and digital rights management technology. Previously, he was CTO at Compression Science Corporation, a startup, which was developing next generation video encoding and decoding technology. At C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Hamilton played a key role in developing the architectures of the early JPEG and MPEG semiconductor products. Consistent with his industry status, Hamilton served for three years as the Chairman of the International JPEG Committee, which is responsible for establishing the worldwide standards for compression of still pictures. Hamilton holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from San Jose State University.

"The security and integrity of compressed content is extremely high with the HHe format due to the encryption scheme and other features weâ€ve employed specifically to thwart HHe-formatted content from being Napsterized," said Eric Hamilton, chief scientist of HandHeld Entertainment in a September news release.

'The 'Hhe' video compression technology used is a proprietary algorithm that was developed specifically to produce superior compression performance yet maintain reasonable complexity in decompression,' said Eric Hamilton, chief scientist of HandHeld Entertainment.