Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Editors

In depth reviews and comments by staff editors -

Tets Maniwa, editor in chief
Media & Entertainment Technologies

Tets Maniwa has been involved in many areas within the electronics industry. He has a decade each in engineering, marketing, and publishing. He has designed ICs and medical equipment, marketed ASICs and opto-electronics, and written about all of these technologies. He has a BSEE from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.

Tets’ main focus is on the electronics systems and ecosystems that implement the current and future media and entertainment technologies.

Pallab Chatterjee, senior technical editor
Media & Entertainment Technologies

Pallab Chatterjee has been a independent consultant and serial entrepreneur in the electronics and media industries for over 25 years. During that time he provided services and expertise in engineering, business development, marketing, and publishing. In addition to design involvement with over 400 commercial and government projects, he is involved, at the officer level, with several professional conferences on quality of design, solar, sensors and bioelectronics, and nanotechnology. He has a BSEE from the University of California at Berkeley and an MSEE from San Jose State University. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Pallab’s main focus is on components, products and workflows for the creation and release of new media and entertainment technology.

Paul Dempsey, senior editor
Media & Entertainment Technologies

Paul Dempsey is the Washington Correspondent for E&T, the main journal of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, and has more than 20 years of experience covering engineering and technology. He has previously written on TV production and consumer electronics for Electronics Times, New Electronics, Broadcast, and Financial Times Business Information. He was the co-author of Big Money, Beautiful Game, a sports business bestseller on the impact of pay-TV on the European soccer market.

Paul’s main focus is on the policy, standards and implementation/qualification of technology conforming to those guidelines and regulations.

Diane Chatterjee, executive editor
Media & Entertainment Technologies

Diane Chatterjee has been president and COO of an independent consulting firm in the electronics industry and a promotional products/publishing company for over 25 years. In the course of the past 25 years, her project management has spanned the areas of tactical engineering for commercial and govt programs, trade show exhibition preparation, book and technical paper creation/publication, conference/event planning and coordination. Recently she has added involvement with trade press in the role of a special topic editor. She has a BSME from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a member of the IEEE, NAPP, UPIC, PPAI, ASI, & ARA.

Diane’s main focus is on the graphics, animation and content creation communities.