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Toshitada Doi

Japanese electrical engineer

Field	Value
name	Toshitada Doi
birth_date
birth_place	Japan
alma_mater	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tohoku University
occupation	Engineer

Tohoku University

Toshitada Doi is a Japanese electrical engineer, who played a significant role in the digital audio revolution. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1964, and a PhD from Tohoku University in 1972.

He joined Sony Japan in 1964 and started the first digital audio project within Sony. He was the driving force behind the PCM adaptor, and was a prominent member of the Sony/Philips taskforce responsible for the design of the Compact Disc.{{cite journal |url-access=registration

He was the lead engineer of the DASH multi-track digital audio tape recorder. In the 1990s, he headed Sony's Digital Creatures Laboratory, where he was responsible for the Aibo, Sony's robotic dog. In 2003, Doi created the Qrio, a running humanoid robot.

Awards and honors

Fellowship, Audio Engineering Society
Eduard Rhein Prize, 1981{{cite web|url=http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/preistrager/chronologie/
Silver Medal, Audio Engineering Society

References

"The Compact Disc Turns 25 by Robert Harley".
(1999). "Magnetic recording: the first 100 years by Eric D. Daniel, C. Denis Mee, Mark H. Clark".
"Toshitada Doi, Machine learning luminary - and AIBO's first master".
[http://www.aes.org/info/awards.cfm AES Awards winners]

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