V. Michael Bove, Jr. directs the MIT Media Lab's Consumer Electronics Laboratory (CELab) program, and heads the Object-Based Media research group. Bove is the author or co-author of over 50 journal and conference papers on digital television systems, video processing hardware/software design, multimedia, scene modeling, visual display technologies, and optics. He holds patents on inventions relating to video recording, hardcopy, interactive television, and medical imaging, and has been a member of several professional and government committees. Bove is on the board of editors of the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and associate editor of Optical Engineering. In 2002 he was named a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering. He is serving as general chair of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, and was a founder of and technical advisor to WatchPoint Media, Inc. (now a part of GoldPocket Interactive). Bove holds a BS in electrical engineering, an MS in visual studies, and a PhD in media technology, all from MIT.

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