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Kevin Corson | |
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| File:Kevin Corson, CEO of Marketing Engineers, Inc.jpg | |
| Born | April 10, 1957 |
| Education | Eastern Washington University |
| Occupation(s) | CEO, founder and Chief Vision Officer of Marketing Engineers, Inc. |
| Website | marketingengineers |
Kevin Corson
Over the last 25 years, Kevin Corson (born April 10, 1957) has developed or brought to market a number of popular cutting-edge, computer-based technologies. They include several worlds’ firsts, such as the first soundcard and voice-recognition products, which include The Sound Master, Voice Blaster, Modem Blaster and Sound Blaster (COVOX, Creative Labs).
Kevin also brought to market the popular Windows audio-editing software Sound Forge, (Sonic Foundry/SONY), and created the world’s first full-duplex Internet phone for the PC and MAC (DigiPhone), enabling two or more people to speak over the Internet to each other at the same time. (Wired Magazine[1], PC World, NY Times, Wall Street Journal). He was also responsible for bringing to market the first handheld software products, Pilot Goodies and The Breeze for Palm Pilots[2], picked by Comp-USA and Staples as an OEM product for use with their own support packages.)
Kevin has been a technical and product marketing consultant for companies such as The Dallas Cowboys, Delco, Dial, Ford, Honda, The J. Paul Getty Center and Titan & Wrigley. He founded the High-Tech Broadcasting Network (HBN Inc.) in 1999 to develop The Network Guide[3], the world’s first “web-free guide” to online digital content, and a new generation of Web-Free Internet broadcasting, content management and secure peer-to-peer networking technologies.
Kevin is also credited for writing two chapters on “Internet Downloading and Peer-fo-Peer” networking in “ONLINE – THE BOOK” by John Dvorak and Chris Pirillo.
Kevin lives in Eugene, Oregon with his wife Donna.
References
- ^ The Internet Phone “Iphone,” Wired Magazine, October 1995
- ^ J. D. Biersdorfer, "LIBRARY/PALM PILOT SOFTWARE; Making Downloads a Breeze", New York Times, 1996
- ^ Instant Messaging Planet, “New Network Guide Includes P2P, IM,” July 22, 2002
• Newsweek, “Tired of All Those Passwords? Here Are Some Alternatives,” November 30, 1998 (Kevin Corson on biometrics). • Wall Street Journal “Goodbye AT&T?,” February 16, 1994 (DigiPhone) • Discover, “Annual Technological Awards,” October 1993 (Voice Blaster). • Business Week, “Developments to Watch,” March 22, 1993 (Voice Blaster). • Scientific American, “Speech Recognition,” February 1993 (Voice Blaster).
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