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Richard Cabot

Job Title: President
Company: XFRM, Inc.

Status: Life Fellow
Member since: 1974
AES Position: Standards Manager
AES Committees: BoD, Board of Governors, Conference Policy, Standards, Convention: 144th
Technical Committee: Network Audio Systems
Standards Committees: AESSC-Amplifiers (Amplifiers), AESSC-STF (Standards Task Force), SC-00 (Stabilized Documents), SC-02 (Digital Audio), SC-02-01 (Digital Audio Measurement Techniques), SC-02-02 (Digital Input/Output Interfacing), SC-02-02-B (Audio on UWB), SC-02-02-J (AES-X182 AESOP), SC-02-02-K (Multichannel audio in AES3, X196), SC-02-02-L (MADI over twisted-pair cabling), SC-02-02-M (AES10 revision), SC-02-02-N (AES3-4 revision), SC-02-08 (Audio File Transfer and Exchange), SC-02-08-E (X212 HRTF file format), SC-02-12 (Audio Applications of Networks), SC-02-12-G (Professional audio in 1394), SC-02-12-H (AES-X192), SC-02-12-J (Network Use Cases), SC-02-12-L (Open Control Architecture), SC-02-12-M (AES67 development), SC-02-12-N (Media network directories), SC-02-12-P (Broadcast and Online Delivery), SC-02-12-Q (Streaming Loudness), SC-02-12-R (Streaming audio metadata over IP), SC-03 (Preservation and Restoration of Audio Recording), SC-03-06 (Digital Library and Archive Systems), SC-03-07 (Audio Metadata), SC-03-12 (Forensic Audio), SC-04 (Acoustics), SC-04-03 (Loudspeaker Modeling and Measurement), SC-04-03-A (Project AES-X250), SC-04-03-B (Acoustic centers), SC-04-03-C (Large-signal measurements), SC-04-03-D (AES-1id-R), SC-04-04 (Microphone Measurement and Characterization), SC-04-04-D (Project AES-X42), SC-04-04-E (Microphone comparisons), SC-04-04-F (Project AES-X230), SC-04-08 (Sound systems in rooms), SC-04-08-A (Loudness), SC-04-09 (Assessment of Acoustic Annoyance), SC-05 (Interconnections), SC-05-02 (Audio Connectors), SC-05-02-F (Fiber optic), SC-05-05 (Grounding and EMC Practices), Steering (Steering)
Primary Section: Portland

Company Website: http://www.xfrm.com/
Other Professional Website: http://www.aes.org/standards/about/
Facebook Address: https://www.facebook.com/richard.cabot.7
LinkedIn Address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-cabot-a9187

Audio Field:

Product Design & Manufacturing - Research & Development

Job Duties:

Technical Director
AES Standards Manager

About

Registered Professional Engineer in Electrical and Acoustical Engineering in the State of Oregon.
Senior Member of the Institute of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Member of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).
Member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
Member of Sigma Xi (a scientific research honorary society)
Member of Eta Kappa Nu (an electrical engineering honorary society).
Former Signal Processing Editor of Sound and Video Contractor Magazine.
Numerous patents on various electrical circuit techniques and digital signal processing techniques.
Published and/or presented numerous papers in the fields of audio frequency electronic circuit design, digital signal processing, acoustics and the perception of sound.

AES Awards

In 1980, Richard C. Cabot was presented with the AES Fellowship Award.

In 1992, Richard C. Cabot was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award for his chairmanship of the AES 11th International Conference in Portland in May, 1992.

Education Background

MBA, 2001, Pepperdine University ( Malibu, CA)
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1977, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Troy, NY)
M.S. Mechanics, 1976, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Troy, NY)
M. Eng. Electrical Engineering, 1975, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Troy, NY)
B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1975, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Troy, NY)

Employment History

XFRM, Inc. (2002 to present) President, Chief Technology Officer
Qualis Audio, Inc. (2007 to present) President, Chief Technology Officer
Audio Precision (1998 to 2001) Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Audio Precision (1984 to 1998). Vice President, Principal Engineer.
Tektronix (1978 to 1984). Design Engineer, Project Leader.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1977 to 1978) Instructor