Scott Foster

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Crystal River Engineering, Inc, CEO

Bio:

SIGGRAPH1995

Scott Foster founded Crystal River Engineering in 1987 to develop digital signal processing equipment for spatial audio and navigation systems. One of his first clients was NASA- Ames, for which he developed the Convolvotron 3-D sound system for applications including audio research, communicatIons, navigation, virtual reality and telepresence. Before establishing Crystal River, Mr. Foster was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories working on digital signal processing for audio and instrumentation, a research scientist at Atari, Inc where he designed a VLSI audio synthesis chip, and a project leader at Systems Control, Inc where he worked with Stanford’s Center for Research in Music and Acoustics on a study of automatic music analysis and transcription. Mr. Foster received a B S in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976.

Experience Category Collaboration(s):

Type: [E-Tech ]
DesignSpace
Organizer(s): [Chapin ]
Entry No.: [29 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1993]

Type: [VR Experiences ]
Virtual Acoustic Environments: The Convolvotron
Organizer(s): Developer(s): [Wenzel ]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]

Learning Category: Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses ]
Sound for Animation and Virtual Reality Organizer(s): [Hahn]
Presenter(s): [Hahn ] [Docter ] [Foster ] [Mangini ] [Myers ] [Wenzel ]
Entry No.: [10 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]

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