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Israeli Team Wins $100,000 from Texas Instruments DSP and Analog University Challenge
DALLAS (Aug. 7, 2001) -- Leveraging programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) to build an audio digital watermarking system for protection against copyright violation problems, three students from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology were awarded the US$100,000 grand prize for TI's DSP and Analog University Challenge. The competition challenges university students from engineering programs around the world to create innovative and functional applications using one of TI's TMS320 DSPs. (See: www.ti.com/sc/dspchallenge)
Shay Mizrachi, Michael Lusig and Yuval Cassuto of Technion used TI's TMS320C5410 programmable DSP to create a real-time digital watermarking system for audio signals using perceptual masking. With this technology, a signature can be embedded within the data of a signal, thus resolving multiple ownership claims to digital media. The digital watermark is inaudible to the human ear and virtually undetectable and resistant to attempts to remove it. In addition to student prizes, Nimrod Peleg, the advising professor of the Technion team, was awarded a cash prize of US$15,000.
"Winning TI's DSP and Analog University Challenge is a great success for our team and Technion," said Shay Mizrachi, of the Technion team. "We won $100,000 and gained very valuable hands-on experience working with TI's programmable DSPs, an experience that will help each of us as we continue to work toward our career goals."
"Technion's winning project is a prime example of the many applications that are made possible using TI's programmable DSPs," said Torrence Robinson, worldwide DSP University Program Manager and Challenge coordinator. "TI is committed to nurturing innovative thinking and creativity from students and will continue to support DSP education and research via programs such as the DSP and Analog University Challenge."
In its third edition, TI's DSP and Analog University Challenge received 241 entries from 730 students in 37 countries. Other finalist teams included Rice University of Houston for their application that enables the transmission of real-time audio and video in wireless devices and National Taiwan University for their high-speed transceivers for wireless data communications. TI representatives judged the submissions for their overall creativity, practicality and repeatability, difficulty, operability, completeness and professionalism.
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