Bob Edge

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Principle Engineer, Grass Valley Group

Bob Edge is a Principle Engineer for the Grass Valley Group. He is currently responsible for enhancements on the Emmy^® award-winning Profile line.

During his career, Edge has worked as an Engineer, Architect, Project Leader, and Program Manager on several products. Some of his early efforts include desktop computing systems, peripherals and high performance graphics terminals.

Edge participated in a research project that used high-bandwidth data networks to transport video streams. Following this research project, he worked on additions to Grass Valley Group's Profile product line.

Most recently, Edge lead the effort to standardize the General Exchange Format (GXF), now known as SMPTE 360M.

Edge is now active in Television standards work, including participation in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a few European Broadcasters Union projects and the Pro-MPEG Forum. Previously he participated in the EBU/SMPTE Joint Task Force.

Edge has a Computer Science degree from Oregon State University.



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