ADVISORY/HP Labs Scientist to be Named to MIT Technology Review Magazine's Top Young Innovators List.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Sept. 24)

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What:       Naming of John Apostolopoulos as one of the 100 Top
            Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of
            Innovation. The TR100, chosen by the editors of Technology
            Review and an elite panel of judges, consists of
            individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in
            technology has a profound impact on today's world.

Who:        John Apostolopoulos, senior research scientist in HP Labs

When:       5 p.m.-5:15 p.m. EDT, Sept. 24

Where:      MIT's Emerging Technology Conference, held in the
            Kresge Auditorium, MIT Campus, Cambridge, Mass. (More
            information is available at
            http://www.etc2003.com/index.shtml)

John Apostolopoulos is being named to the TR100 for his work in multimedia communication. He is part of the team that received a Technical Emmy award for creating the U.S. Digital TV standard and is the second consecutive Young Innovator from HP Labs. Susie Wee, now manager of the HP Multimedia Communications and Networking Department, was similarly honored last year, also for work in streaming media.

Apostolopoulos' recent research has focused on improving the reliability, fidelity and security of video streaming over the Internet. Because the Internet is vulnerable to errors or attacks that can interrupt video streams, he designed a technique for intelligently sending video data packets across multiple paths simultaneously rather than relying on a single path. Even if one path is interrupted, the transmission continues because the missing video can be recovered from the data sent along the other path.

Apostolopoulos is now turning his attention to streaming video over wireless networks, including the popular 802.11 (Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity) wireless LANs.

Apostolopoulos will attend the TR100 presentation ceremony and will be available for interviews throughout the week. Journalists interested in arranging an interview should contact Michael Burk at [phone] or [e-mail].