Monday, September 19 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM AACS Alan Bell, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Warner Bros. Kilroy Hughes, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation Alan Bell, Senior Vice President, Warner Technical Operations: As Senior Vice President, Warner Bros. Technical Operations Alan is responsible for advanced technology and requirements development across a broad range of areas centered on the preparation, distribution and consumption of digital motion picture content and related derivatives. Dr. Bell’s current areas of interest include the development of next generation HD DVD standards, digital home entertainment networks, including the technologies and issues associated with digital content rights management and copy protection. In 1995, Alan was centrally involved in the unification of the DVD format, and shortly thereafter the developments that resulted in the CSS scrambling methods for DVD. For the last eight years he has focused on the technical development and cross-industry issues involved in the development of comprehensive rights management architecture, and he has co-Chaired the Copy Protection Technical Working Group since its inception. Prior to joining Warner Bros., Alan held management and technical positions at IBM Research and RCA Sarnoff Labs. In recognition of his contributions to the introduction of DVD and to the development optical storage technology in general, Dr. Bell was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1984. Alan received his doctoral and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. Kilroy Hughes, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation: Kilroy is a member of the DVD Forum Steering Committee and the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Board of Governors. He came to Microsoft in 1998 to help launch DVD on Windows. Prior to that he authored over 250 disc titles on CD-I and VideoCD (including some of the first MPEG-1 applications), and developed interactive disc and television systems and authoring tools. His activities at Microsoft include strategic planning pertaining to digital media, and participation in standards and specification organizations including ITU, TV Anytime, AAF, ATSC, ATVEF, CableLabs, SMPTE, and DVD Forum. Most recently Kilroy was a contributor to the SMPTE VC-1 video codec standard, and the HD DVD-Video Application Format specification. During the 20 years prior to joining Microsoft, Kilroy was CEO and founder of three corporations that manufactured electronic equipment, provided Foreground music on disc, cable, and satellite, and developed interactive video discs. He has a chemistry degree, was a nuclear reactor operator and researcher, a broadcast engineer, an electronics designer, a recording engineer, and a rock musician; and holds patents in areas of electronics and digital media. He was the technical editor of the first edition of "DVD Demystified" and has published many articles in electronics, multimedia, and television periodicals. Aside from his wife and two daughters, his biggest thrill was getting Neal Armstrong’s moon rocks hot off the shuttle in order to run the first neutron activation analysis using his trusty nuclear reactor, gamma ray spectrometer, and a computer system he developed for spectral analysis.