Ron Arps received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to obtaining his master’s degree in electrical engineering at OSU, Arps worked for the Electrodata Division of the Burroughs Corporation. There he worked to design logic for 600 lpm line printers and to advance the development of core memories. Arps went on to earn a PhD, also in electrical engineering, at Stanford University. He continued his career at IBM, where he became a manager in 1969 of the Data Compression Project in IBM’s Advanced Systems Development Division. He acted as a visiting professor twice, once at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and then again at Linkoping University in Sweden. In 2004, Arps was awarded the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium Lifetime Achievement Award. He received this award for being a leading research figure in the area of still image compression and coding for over 35 years, as well as being a key contributor to the ISO/IED/ITU standards for JBIG, JPEG, JBIG2, and JPEG2000. Arps has been granted 4 US Patents.
Degrees
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1963