Chief Technology Officer at Gracenote
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Chief Technology Officer at Gracenote
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- Co-Founder & CTO at Gracenote
- Founder & CEO at ION Music
- Fifth Beatle to Quicktime team at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Co-Founder & Director of Advanced Technology at Lightsource Computer Images, Inc.
- Senior Macintosh Developer at Pixar
- Co-Founder & Mac Developer at Ed Bogas Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
- Game Developer at Woodside Design
- Software Developer at Renaissance Technology
- Educational Software Developer at Stepping Stone Software
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Ty Roberts’s Summary
Ty Roberts is widely recognized as one of the inventors of enhanced CD technology and is accredited with producing the industry’s first enhanced CDs. He joined Gracenote in November of 1998 after the company acquired ION, a multimedia and music technology company that he founded in 1993. Roberts serves as Gracenote’s chief technology strategist, providing technology direction and overseeing the creation of products and services that leverage the power of the Gracenote database to deliver information services.
Ty Roberts’s Specialties:
Digital Music, Media Players, MP3, CDDB, Media Identification, Content, IP, Audio Fingerprinting, Video Fingerprinting, Network Service, Embedded Software, Mobile Applications
Ty Roberts’s Experience
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Chief Technology Officer
Gracenote
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SNE; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
Gracenote was aquired by Sony Corporation of America April 22, 2008. The company will remain an idependant standalone entity with the orginal management team in place. Gracenote will continue to offer unique and advanced multimedia networking services to the industry at large. Roberts will continue to develop leading edge connected media technology for music, film and television. Roberts reports to Craig Palmer, President of Gracenote.
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Co-Founder & CTO
Gracenote
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Music industry)
November 1998 — April 2008 (9 years 6 months)
I spend my days doing corporate and business development involving IP, Technology & Services.
Sequioa, Bessemer, Scott A Jones and Simon Investments back the company.
CDDB was created by my esteemed collegues Steve Scherf and Ti Khan. Gracenote was formed by combining CDDB and ION. -
Founder & CEO
ION Music
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
May 1992 — November 1998 (6 years 7 months)
Produced the recording industry’s first enhanced audio CD titles, including David Bowie’s "Jump" and "Headcandy" from Brian Eno. He was the company’s lead technologist and innovator in adding multimedia content to traditional audio CDs.
Other founders were Ann Greenberg, John Eric Greenberg and Lou Beach.
Notable Alumni are Albhy Galuten, Roger Jones, Bill Schulze and Jason Winshell. -
Fifth Beatle to Quicktime team
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; Music industry)
1989 — 1994 (5 years)
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Co-Founder & Director of Advanced Technology
Lightsource Computer Images, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1988 — May 1992 (3 years 8 months)
A software development company that produced multimedia and graphics editing software.
Original idea was to make something like Photoshop, but then we found out the Knoll brothers had allready done it while working at ILM.
During this time I very involved in the emerging field of digital video applications and was involved in the creation and commercialzation of QuickTime.
Lightsource was founded by Rob Cook, Rick Smolan, Philip Moffit and myself. Backed by Venrock.
Alumni include Michael Solomon, marketing genius of Aldus. -
Senior Macintosh Developer
Pixar
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; PIXR; Computer Software industry)
January 1988 — October 1988 (10 months)
Was the first Macintosh developer to work at PIXAR. Left with Rob Cook and Lauren Carpenter to found Lightsource.
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Co-Founder & Mac Developer
Ed Bogas Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
November 1983 — January 1988 (4 years 3 months)
Developed Macintosh music applications including "Studio Session" and "Jam Session". Alumni from Bogas are Steve Kapps, co-creator of the Macintosh Finder, Neil Cormia creator of WAP and Gary Clayton sound expert extroidinare.
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Game Developer
Woodside Design
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
October 1982 — November 1983 (1 year 2 months)
Wrote games for Activision under Steven Kitchen's guidance. The big game here was 'Space Shuttle' which blew up for the first time just before I finished my Colecovision port.
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Software Developer
Renaissance Technology
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1981 — May 1983 (1 year 7 months)
Developed Atari VCS2600 Game for Milton Bradley and system software for the NEC personal computer. Worked with Vic Ivashin and Dusty Duistermars.
Survival Run was published in 1983
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Educational Software Developer
Stepping Stone Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1982 — October 1982 (7 months)
Wrote Apple ][ educational software under contract for Spinaker Software. Product was 'SUM DUCKS' a childrens math game.
Additional Information
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ACM, SAE,
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Patents for Music and Multimedia:
EP1010098B - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio recordings
US5987525 - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio recordings
US6061680 - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio recordings
US6154773 - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio recordings
US6240459 - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio recordings
US6230192 - Method and system for accessing remote data based on playback of recordings
US6161132 - System for synchronizing playback of recordings and display by networked computer systems
US6230207 - Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of audio
US6330593 - System for collecting use data related to playback of recordings
US7167857 - Method and system for finding approximate matches in database
