David Carver

Current

Partner at Gerovac Carver Technology Research Partners

Past

Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Blackwave (fomerly Acinion)
Partner at Gerovac Carver Technology Research Partners
Director of R&D at SeaChange International

Director of Strategic Initiatives at PictureTel
Associate Director and Research Scientist at MIT
Principle Engineer/Visiting Scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation
Principle Engineer/Visiting Scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation
Principle Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation

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Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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David Carver’s Summary

For over 25 years I have led influential work in media computing and communications with extensive experience in technology development and transfer, business planning, and product development.

David Carver’s Experience

Partner

Gerovac Carver Technology Research Partners

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Blackwave (fomerly Acinion)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 3 months)

As a Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Blackwave from 2006 to 2008, I set the company’s technology direction and led the effort to develop the venture’s first product. In less than a year, I had product being evaluated at two customer sites and the company had its first purchase order enabling it to secure second round funding. I also developed the company’s core patent portfolio of 10 applications.
Partner

Gerovac Carver Technology Research Partners

(Research industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years)

Realizing that Internet video was about to become commercially viable, I left SeaChange to pursue product and service ideas that leverage my previous work at MIT. GCTRP was a partnership formed to explore the technology, market, and business concepts that would eventually form the basis of a new venture.
Director of R&D

SeaChange International

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SEAC; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years)

I was recruited by SeaChange to lead their advanced advertising and personal television efforts. I developed the intellectual property, business strategy, partnerships, and product efforts that became the basis of the company's personal television and advanced advertising products. I led development of core video-on-demand capabilities such as the new propagation service, advanced codec support, and IP delivery. I also fostered the engineering relationship with the company's first commercial telco customer.
Director of Strategic Initiatives

PictureTel

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PCTL; Telecommunications industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)

I joined PictureTel to bring digital television technologies into their traditional products and services. Ironically, only a few years later I would be working to bring advanced codec technologies originally developed for video conferencing into digital television products and services.
Associate Director and Research Scientist

MIT

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 8 months)

I was Associate Director of the Research Program on Communications Policy. RPCP was a team of technology, business, and policy researchers conducting research on topics such as advanced television, digital media, Internet video, local access, Internet economics and intellectual property. It was here that I developed many of the foundational principles I brought into my subsequent work: digital television protocols, video storage architectures, local access technologies, Internet economics and intellectual property. A sampling of my papers from this era can be found at http://mit.edu/dcc.
Principle Engineer/Visiting Scientist

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1991 — 1993 (2 years)

I was the DEC sponsor of David Tennenhouse's Telemedia Network Systems group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. I collaborated with the team at MIT to work on bringing high performance computing, broadband networking, and digital video to the desktop. I also became involved with HDTV standardization efforts in the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers.
Principle Engineer/Visiting Scientist

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years)

I collaborated on efforts at MIT Project Athena, a DEC sponsored joint research program, to develop desktop multimedia technologies. I developed a video extension to the X Window System and contributed to protocols used for synchronizing multiple media flows. I have fond memories of demonstrating cross-country a remote tablet graphics application with Ralph Swick, then my office mate.
Principle Engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1982 — 1987 (5 years)

I joined Digital out of college to work on interactive graphics, window systems, and distributed systems. It was here that I developed the first commercially available version of the X Window System and became a contributor to the X11 protocol.