“Apple has reportedly hired Tomlinson Holman as its new audio chief, according to a tweet by Leo Laporte Wednesday morning,” Darrell Etherington reports for GigaOM.
“Laporte said he had it ‘on good authority’ that Holman ‘is joining Apple to run audio,'” Etherington reports. “Holman is the brain behind Lucasfilm’s THX sound, and the world’s first 10.2 surround sound system.”
Etherington reports, “Holman is currently a film sound professor at the University of Southern California, and he has received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. He spent 15 years as the corporate technical director for Lucasfilm, and all of the company’s THX patents stem from his work and research. Holman also has experience designing loudspeakers and amplifiers in addition to his work in the film industry.”
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