{"id":27893,"date":"2014-04-03T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?p=27893"},"modified":"2023-03-14T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:03:38","slug":"beechwoods-software-april-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/2014\/04\/03\/beechwoods-software-april-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Beechwoods Software | April 3, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/files\/2017\/09\/TECHTalk-e1460493320853.png\" class=\"banner\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beechwoods Software <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cConsumer Electronics: Software in the Box \u2013 TV and Things\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Comcast, DIRECTV, Netflix, and Hulu all provide entertainment on demand, but how? What kind of technology do these services use? Join Beechwoods Software for a discussion on the technology inside smart TVs, set-top boxes, DVRs, and streaming boxes\u2014with a focus on the software that makes them run. Representatives will also discuss open source and Linux-based software, in addition to proprietary vendor components. The technical issues related to video compression, content protection, and delivery via unreliable networks will also be addressed. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 3, 2014 5\u20135:45 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BU Photonics Center<\/p>\n<p>8 St Mary\u2019s Street, Room 203, Boston<\/p>\n<p><em>RSVP to Katherine Moran, MET College Enrollment Services at <\/em><em><u>kcmeyer@bu.edu<\/u><\/em><em> or (617) 358-4610. Include name, BU ID, email address, and BU college\/program.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember to bring copies of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9\u2014JOB OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE DISCUSSED. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest Speakers:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Ralph Brown, VP Strategic Alliances<\/h1>\n<p>Brown works to help develop and deepen strategic alliances with new and existing customers at Beechwoods Software. Previously, he served as vice president of software engineering for Ingenix, a division of UnitedHealth Group, and as CTO for Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe), which serviced customers such as Qualcomm and Pepsi. At IBM, Brown was responsible for the development of Lotus Notes for strategic platforms. In the U.K., Brown founded Paxton Computers Ltd., which counted the Royal Navy and British Telecom among clients.<\/p>\n<h1>Aman Manchanda, VP Engineering<\/h1>\n<p>Manchanda brings fifteen years of engineering experience to Beechwoods, where he manages the company\u2019s engineering organization and deliverables. He focuses on implementing policies and procedures for continuous improvement, and on managing day-to-day customer relations with some of Beechwoods\u2019 biggest clients. Additionally, Manchanda played a key role in bringing twelve makes and models of DIRECTV set-top boxes to market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beechwoods Software \u201cConsumer Electronics: Software in the Box \u2013 TV and Things\u201d Comcast, DIRECTV, Netflix, and Hulu all provide entertainment on demand, but how? What kind of technology do these services use? Join Beechwoods Software for a discussion on the technology inside smart TVs, set-top boxes, DVRs, and streaming boxes\u2014with a focus on the software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10843],"tags":[10851,10885,10848,10857,10869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27913,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions\/27913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}