Alan E. Bell
Ph.D., Warner Bros.
As Senior Vice President, Warner Bros. Technical Operations Alan is responsible for advanced technology and requirements development across a broad range of areas centered on the preparation, distribution and consumption of digital motion picture content and related derivatives. Dr. Bell's current areas of interest include the development of next generation HD DVD standards, digital home entertainment networks, including the technologies and issues associated with digital content rights management and copy protection.
In 1995, Alan was centrally involved in the unification of the DVD format, and shortly thereafter the developments that resulted in the CSS scrambling methods for DVD. For the last eight years he has focused on the technical development and cross-industry issues involved in the development of comprehensive rights management architecture. Dr. Bell has co-Chaired the Copy Protection Technical Working Group since its inception. Dr. Bell's career has included positions at IBM Research and RCA Sarnoff Labs.
In recognition of his contributions to the introduction of DVD and to the development optical storage technology in general, Dr. Bell was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2001 and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1984. Alan received his doctoral and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2005 February 9, 2005
Biography last updated August 1, 2005