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CE Hall Of Fame Class Announced

Arlington, Va. – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today
announced 11 new inductees to the CE Hall of Fame.

The members of the 2011 class include SanDisk co-founder Dr. Eli Harari,
Runco founder Sam Runco, Tweeter founder Sandy Bloomberg, as well as the
inventors of flash memory, the Ethernet and consumer satellite television.

The 11 new honorees will be inducted into the CE Hall of Fame at an
awards dinner during CEA’s Industry Forum to be held in San Diego on Oct. 23-28.

The inductees are listed below.

Innovators/Technologists:

Ralph Baer

, who developed the Brown Box and the Magnavox Odyssey
interactive TV/video gaming systems;

Dr. Fujio Masuoka,

who invented flash memory while at Toshiba and
also developed SAMOS memory;

Dr. Robert Metcalf,

who was working at Xerox PARC in 1973 when
he co-invented the Ethernet – a standard for connecting computers over short
distances;

Claude Elwood Shannon

, credited with founding both digital
computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937; and

Dr. Andrew Viterbi

, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm used for
decoding convolutionally encoded data that is used in cellphones for error
correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis and other
applications.

Founders/Corporate Executives:

Eli Harari

, co-founder and former CEO of SanDisk, which invented
or co-developed many of the standard memory card formats used in CE products
ranging from digital cameras to smartphones;

Stanley S. Hubbard,

whose company, Hubbard Broadcasting, started
U.S. Satellite Broadcasting (USSB) in 1981, and was instrumental in the
development and launching of the first digital satellite system for television
in 1994; and

Sam Runco

, founder and CEO of Runco International, the first company
to introduce a line doubler with a multi-frequency projector in 1990 as well as
the first multiple-aspect-ratio controller, the ARC-IV, to the high-end home
theater market.

Retailers/Buying Groups/Distributors:

Sandy Bloomberg

, founder of Tweeter, the specialty consumer
electronics retail chain that marketed high-end electronics products.

Journalists 

The team of

Ivan Berger

and

Lance Braithwaite

, who worked
together at Berger Braithwaite Labs/Video Magazine (Sound & Video Magazine)
and wrote extensive product reviews.

The CE Hall of Fame, created in 2000, honors the consumer electronics
industry leaders who have shaped the advancement of innovation. The inductees
this year include company founders and inventors, those who passionately move
technology forward, marketing geniuses, retailers that bring products to
consumers and journalists who write about the industry.

“The consumer electronics industry creates innovative products that make
our lives better,” said CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro. “Innovative
products come from innovative people, and the success of our industry is built
upon technologies and products created by the leaders we honor in the CE Hall
of Fame.”

The CE Hall of Fame includes inventors, executives, engineers, retailers
and journalists who are selected by an independent panel of industry judges.
The judging for the 2011 inductees took place in New York City on February 23.
Nominations were submitted by industry professionals and media through online
submissions.

More information about registering for CEA’s Industry Forum and attending
the Hall of Fame dinner is available at

CE.org

.

To read the 2010 CE Hall of Fame booklet, visit:

http://bit.ly/kOKmKW

.

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