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Tom Jacobs
Director of Research, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Project Lead, Open Media Commons Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tom Jacobs is a Director of Research at Sun Labs and the project lead for the Open Media Commons initiative. His research interests include digital rights management (DRM) systems, image processing and TV services. Most recently, Tom's team created Project DReaM, which has become a Sun contribution to the Open Media Commons organization.
Tom joined Sun in 1987 and was part of the original foundation of Sun Labs in 1991. Prior to joining Sun, Tom spent several years at Xerox developing networked mail and printing applications for the Star and ViewPoint systems.
During his tenure with Sun, he has managed engineering programs in the areas of graphics, operating systems, networking, multimedia and compression technologies. Most recently, Mr. Jacobs was the Director of the Digital Media Services engineering organization in Sun's Network Storage Division which developed a line of broadcast and streaming media servers. Additionally, Tom has served as the board President of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (2000-2003) which promotes the adoption of standards for streaming rich-media content over the Internet.
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