Ray Dolby, founder of Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80 at his home in San Francisco. He has suffered from from Alzheimer’s disease over the last several years and was diagnosed with leukemia two months ago
Dolby is best known for founding Dolby Laboratories in 1965, a company that specialized in audio noise reduction and audio compression. He realized the imperfections in film at the time and took matters into his own hands, helping to develop tools like the Dolby noise-reduction system to reduce unwanted noise from films. The first film with Dolby sound was Stanley Kubrick’s legendary movie A Clockwork Orange in 1971 Read more…
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