Recipients of the Eduard Rhein Technology Award 2015, ©Fraunhofer IIS

mp3 developers to receive esteemed Eduard Rhein Award

Erlangen/Munich, October 13, 2015: The Eduard Rhein Foundation has selected Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Karlheinz Brandenburg, Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Herre to receive the 2015 Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation for their significant contributions to the development and implementation of mp3. The audio coding standard forever changed the world of music with its ability to allow music lovers to save their entire music library on a device as small as a...

The sound of the future: Fraunhofer IIS at IBC 2015

From September 11 to 15, 2015 the broadcasting industry met at IBC in Amsterdam. More than 33.000 visitors and 21.000 exhibitors informed themselves about the latest and future trends and new technical solutions in all relevant areas of film, television and radio production. Fraunhofer IIS was also on-site to present immersive sound for the future of television audio, impressive sound for mobile...

Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg extend their partnership | ©Fraunhofer IIS/Kurt Fuchs

International Audio Laboratories Erlangen: Fraunhofer IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg extend their partnership

Erlangen, September 29, 2015: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) continue their dynamic partnership within the joint collaboration of International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (AudioLabs). In this unique educational and research institution, audio and multimedia technologies have been researched and developed very successfully since 2010. While the collaboration was planned to last for at least ten years, the...