Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ken Austin is an inventor, technologist, Chairman of Inview Technology Ltd and an expert in the Electronic program guide (EPG) field.His company, based in Northwich, Cheshire, UK is privately owned. Between 1986 and 1996 he was Technical Director and Vice Chairman of Pilkington Micro-elec Ltd.He is a self-taught electronics expert and was the first to secure patents for digital television programme guides during the early 1990s.Parallel computing is based on his early ideas, as is the "Infinite" programmable gate array which he developed in 1989.Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, FRS, FREng (ex Chief Scientific Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) said in the Sunday Times that "Ken Austin is a true inventor of commercial merit."[citation needed] He also featured in the book Organising Genius by Paul Thorne (ISBN 978-0631169598).In 2011 video on demand (VOD) company OnDemand teamed up with Inview Technology to launch video-on-demand (TVOD, SVOD) services on connected TVs.In 2012 he announced an EPG platform which turns a low-cost ("tier 2") TV into a connected or Smart TV.. }
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- Ken_Austin_(inventor) abstract "Ken Austin is an inventor, technologist, Chairman of Inview Technology Ltd and an expert in the Electronic program guide (EPG) field.His company, based in Northwich, Cheshire, UK is privately owned. Between 1986 and 1996 he was Technical Director and Vice Chairman of Pilkington Micro-elec Ltd.He is a self-taught electronics expert and was the first to secure patents for digital television programme guides during the early 1990s.Parallel computing is based on his early ideas, as is the "Infinite" programmable gate array which he developed in 1989.Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, FRS, FREng (ex Chief Scientific Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) said in the Sunday Times that "Ken Austin is a true inventor of commercial merit."[citation needed] He also featured in the book Organising Genius by Paul Thorne (ISBN 978-0631169598).In 2011 video on demand (VOD) company OnDemand teamed up with Inview Technology to launch video-on-demand (TVOD, SVOD) services on connected TVs.In 2012 he announced an EPG platform which turns a low-cost ("tier 2") TV into a connected or Smart TV.".