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John G. (Jay) McKnight (born February 11, 1931) is a co-founder of Magnetic Reference Laboratory (MRL) in San Jose (formerly Mountain View), California, where he was engineering vice-president from 1972 to 1975, and has been the president since 1975. He also develops new products and directs engineering at MRL. ==Biography== McKnight was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp. from 1952 through 1972, except for the years 1953 through 1956 when he served in the U.S. Army, at the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) in New York City, where he also worked at the Gotham Recording studio. At Ampex, he served in the magnetic recording research group, the stereo tape division, and the professional audio division. In addition to research, he also worked on the design of the CinemaScope reproducer system; the Models 350, PR-10, and MR-70; improvements in the high-speed duplication system and operating procedures at the Ampex Music (Stereo Tape) Division; and he developed the "Ampex Master Equalization" (AME). He has published more than 70 technical papers,〔(Papers Written or Edited by John G. McKnight )〕 mostly in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), on the theory and practice of magnetic recording, and on audio engineering. He received the Audio Engineering Society's Publication Award in 1982. From 1972 to 1974 he also was a consultant to Scully/Metrotech in Mountain View, California, and to MCI in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on audio systems and magnetic recording. In 1973 and 1974 he was a member of Judge Sirica's "Advisory Panel on White House Tapes" (“The Watergate Tapes”), and in 1977...79 a member of the Committee on Evaluation of Sound Spectrograms of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Jay and his wife Brigitte have four adult sons, Ken, Jeff, Rick, and Mike. His hobbies include hiking, camping, and 4-wheel driving; programming in the Forth computer language; and playing viola in several amateur string quartets, in community orchestras, and in the orchestras of two Gilbert & Sullivan opera companies.〔(Ampex Mailing List Biographies )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John G. McKnight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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