Conference Chair
Masud Mansuripur
University of Arizona

Dr. Jordi Ribas
Director Technical Strategy Windows Digital Media Division
Microsoft

Charlie Mitsuhashi
Sony

Bert Hesselink, Ph.D
Stanford University

Yawara Kaneko, Ph.D.
President & CEO
TechnoConsulting, Inc.

Jim Taylor
Senior VP & General Manager
Advanced Technology Group
Sonic Solutions

Mark Knox
HD DVD Promotion Group

Tom Coughlin
President
Coughlin Associates

Maciek Brzeski
VP Marketing
Toshiba Storage Device Division

Gordon Hughes
Center for Magnetic Recording Research
University of California, San Diego

Yuzuru Takashima received the B.S. degree in physics from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1990 and the M.S.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2002.  From 1990 till 2000, he served as a Research Specialist at Toshiba Corporation, Japan, working on ultra precision optical components and their manufacturing methods.  From 1997 till 1999, he joined a team of the DARPA funded project on holographic data storage systems (HDSSs) as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University and developed lens systems for HDSS.  He is currently a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University working on optical system designs for bit-based and page-based HDSSs under super vision of Professor Lambertus Hesselink.

For more information go to kaos.stanford.edu.

Eiji Ohno
Manager
Media Process Development Team
Panasonic/Matsushita Electric

Andy Parsons
Senior Vice President
Pioneer

Lisa Dhar
Founder & VP Media Development
InPhase Technology

Dr. Brian Lawrence
Manager
Integrated Polymer Systems
GE Global Research

Yuzuru Takashima
Stanford University

Wolfgang Schlichting
Research Director Removable Storage
IDC

Dominick DallaVerde
Senior Director Preproduction
Cinram International, Inc.

Bob Freedman
CTO Optical Media
Crest National

Roland Lacher
MEDIA-TECH Association