Maestro of tech: Goldman expands the horizons of digital compression.(FIFTH ESTATER)(Matthew Goldman)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 2005 by Kerschbaumer, Ken

When college kids take on summer jobs, it usually means they will be toiling in fast-food restaurants or bagging groceries. Not Matthew Goldman. When he was a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts during the early 1980s, Goldman spent his summers learning the ropes of the TV business. His father, the general manager of Community Cablevision of Framingham, Mass., put him to work climbing poles, handling installations and--most significant--doing technical work at the system's headends.

Goldman has climbed more than telephone poles in the years since, rising to the forefront of TV-technology specialists. He has been instrumental in the design and implementation of technologies that bear the acronyms of some of television's most...

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