Network Investigator: Jeremy Cooperstock

Contact Information

• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill
• 1.514.398.5992 (voice)
• 1.514.398.7348 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~jer

GRAND Projects

• Telepresence for Multi-Site Mobile Interaction
• Evaluation
• High-Speed Coordination in Electronic Games
• Shared Displays

Biography

Jeremy Cooperstock (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996) is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines, and a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology at McGill University. He directs the Shared Reality Lab and leads the technical development of the Ultra-Videoconferencing system, for which he was recognized by an award for Most Innovative Use of New Technology from ACM/IEEE Supercomputing and a Distinction Award from the Audio Engineering Society. His research interests focus on computer mediation to facilitate high-fidelity human communication and the underlying technologies that support this goal.

Cooperstock's accomplishments include the development of a computer-controlled videoconference environment that reacts intelligently to the activity of users, the Intelligent Classroom, the world's first Internet streaming demonstrations of Dolby Digital 5.1, uncompressed 12-channel 96kHz/24bit, multichannel DSD audio, and multiple simultaneous streams of uncompressed high-definition video.

Cooperstock has worked with IBM at the Haifa Research Center, Israel, and the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was a visiting researcher at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, where he developed a prototype VCR interface that responds to speech and pointing commands, in addition to a visual "program database" that has now become common on DVD recorders, and is a visitor professor at Bang & Olufsen, Denmark, where he is conducting research on telepresence technologies as part of the World Opera Project. He chaired the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems from 2001 to 2009 and is an associate editor of the Journal of the AES.