The sound of science

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Lars Liljeryd woke up one morning in 1996 with a hangover and an idea that would transform the science of digital audio.

A Swedish inventor and erstwhile rock drummer, Liljeryd had toyed with ways of compressing and transforming audio for years. That morning, he came up with a way of radically shrinking the amount of information needed to store a song or speech in digital form.

The idea led to a handful of patents and a new business, ultimately attracting the crack engineering team largely responsible for creating the popular MP3 and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) digital music formats. Liljeryd and his company Coding Technologies are still far from household names, but they've helped move the industry standard for digital audio technology beyond what many researchers had thought possible.

Interesting read about the history of audio compression

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