Venture capitalist Tom Perkins about Jan Sloot
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From: Sportman
Part of article USA TODAY 11/18/2008:
I will add here that the software was located in chips, Dutch High
Tech Analysis a business magazine about IT published 4/17/2008 an
article where technology analist Henny van der Pluijm say that Roel
Pieper probably had the source code because it could be read from the
embedded chips because he had a working prototype.
Part of article High Tech Analysis:
http://www.admanager.nl/nieuwsbericht/7950/
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Part of article USA TODAY 11/18/2008:
There's the bizarre story of Jan Sloot, a Dutch engineer "who had no
academic credentials and who had been for most of his life a
television repair technician."
Sloot was working on fitting hours of video onto a smartcard and
claimed to have a prototype. A smartcard, at 75 kilobytes, holds about
1/50,000th the data of a DVD. Sloot's invention seemed to violate the
laws of physics.
Perkins is a graduate of MIT in physics, and a skeptic, but soon was
convinced that Sloot's breakthrough worked. Perkins flew to Amsterdam,
and Sloot recorded and played back on the spot a TV show Perkins
chose.
Perkins agreed to fund Sloot's venture and soon he, Sloot and another
investor were drinking champagne and eating chocolate cake. The next
morning, Perkins got a call that Sloot had died.
That left a problem: Sloot had disclosed his technology except for the
"compiler" program that translated the images into data. Fearing theft
of his invention, he kept this key part.
The compiler was never found, and Perkins' team of scientists could
not reverse-engineer it.
No one has come close to packing so much data into so little memory.
We'll likely never know if Sloot's invention was genius or a hoax.
Bron: http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/200 ... kins_N.htm
I will add here that the software was located in chips, Dutch High
Tech Analysis a business magazine about IT published 4/17/2008 an
article where technology analist Henny van der Pluijm say that Roel
Pieper probably had the source code because it could be read from the
embedded chips because he had a working prototype.
Part of article High Tech Analysis:
http://www.admanager.nl/nieuwsbericht/7950/
With the new Google translate you can translate this Dutch article in
23 other languages http://www.google.com/translate_t
Bron: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive ... 00057.html
Bron: http://compgroups.net/comp.compression/ ... -Jan-Sloot