CIP stories from and about Tomlinson Holman

Holman is an inventor who developed the Lucasfilm THX Division's THX sound system for motion-picture theaters, Home THX, and the THX Digital Mastering Program.

He was also technical director of the design phase of Skywalker Ranch. Holman holds six United States and corresponding foreign patents licensed by more than fifty companies. He holds fellowships from the Audio Engineering Society, the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE. He won the Samuel L. Warner Medal and the Eastman Kodak Gold Medal from SMPTE, as well as the 1996 Career Achievement Award from the Cinema Audio Society.

Holman is the author of Sound for Film and Television (1997). He is a professor in the USC School of Cinema-Television and principal investigator of the Integrated Media Systems Center of the USC School of Engineering. He is president of TMH Corporation, where he develops entertainment technology.

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