Amiga

11. Amiga hires Dr. Richard Lipes as Director of Multimedia Services

· · Dr. Richard Lipes

Director of Multimedia Services

Dr. Richard Lipes, Director of Multimedia Services, is responsible for delivering 2D and 3D graphics, audio and video streams, and special graphics effects for Amiga's products. He has over 20 years experience in high performance computation on graphics, vector, and parallel computer architectures, gained in large organizations as well as three startups.

Prior to joining Amiga, Dr. Lipes was director of software development at ARK Logic, responsible for design, development, and maintenance of all software for 2D and 3D graphics accelerators. The accelerator drivers supported both OpenGL and DirectX technologies. He was previously at Silicon Graphics where he worked on Project Reality, which produced the highly successful Nintendo 64 Gaming system and on Magic Carpet, a project for delivering MPEG-2 audio and video, AC3 audio, and 3D graphics to set-top boxes and network computers. Earlier, as director of imaging software at Kubota Pacific, he was responsible for medical imaging software that supported 2D and volumetric rendering of key medical modalities.

Dr. Lipes received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Caltech, both in physics. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE. He has served on the board of directors of the Caltech Alumni Association.