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Larry Smarr, UCSD/Calit2
Eric Frost, SDSU
Joaquín Alvarado, SFSU
John Graham, SDSU
Bob Goldberg, UCLA
Scott Friedman, UCLA
Doug Cremer, CVC
Alan Willner, USC
Harvey Newman, Caltech
Pierre Thiry, CCSF
Dennis Davino, Cypress
Richard Weinberg, USC
John Avakian
Ed Johanson
Radhika Mysore, UCSD
Tom DeFanti, UCSD/Calit2
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
Rich Wolski, UCSB
Steve Vogt, UCSB
Shaya Fainman, UCSB
Tim Calhoon, CCC Tech Ctr.
Brian Shepard

University of Southern California
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ECHODAMP 		[Brian Shepard Picture]
Dr. Brian K. Shepard, is Assistant Professor of Pedagogical Technology in the Flora L. Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Music Technology, Composition, Music Theory, and Orchestration at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He also chairs the Thornton School of Music Technology Committee and serves on the USC Research Council and the USC Blackboard Advisory Committee.

In October 1999, Dr. Shepard conducted the very first demonstration of a private music lesson over Internet2 with full-frequency, uncompressed audio and video. Since that time, his pioneering research into the musical capabilities and opportunities of Internet2 has brought him international recognition, and in April 2006, Brian received the inaugural IDEA Award by Internet2 for his work. In October 2009, after nearly 10 years of research into issues of audio quality and echo control in the high-bandwidth, musical videoteleconference, Dr. Shepard released his software ECHODamp to educational institutions around the world, for which he also received an IDEA award in 2010. This breakthrough application allows musicians to control echo in a videoteleconference without sacrificing audio quality as has been the case until now.