User:John.sokol

John Sokol
John Sokol at SVLUG 2011

Early Digital Audio

Developed Digital Audio Record and Playback hardware for the RadioShack TRS80 Color Computer, Apple II, IBM PC, Apple Lisa, and Macintosh, Commodore Pet and C64 in the early 80's while still in High School.

Posted some of the earilest Digital Audio files to BBS's and Recorded a number of Audio Clips that became almost famous, the Meep Meep sound for the Mac, "I am sorry Dave" and "All my systems are functioning Perfectly" from 2001 a Space Odyssey that many people would play on there computers.

Sold some the first hand made custom electronic sampler / pitch shifters based on the C64 sold in to New York City from 1982 to 1985. Many of the audio clips from that found there way in to early Hip Hop music albums.

Inventor of the Audio Byte, first commercial audio device for the PC in 1987 sold by Zebra Research Inc.

Inventions and Innovation

The first Streaming Audio and First Streaming Video on the Internet.

Invented the first hand held oscilloscope in 1985 but never filed patents before presenting the prototype to Fluke and Tektronix.

Originally registered WellFargo.com while working there in 1992 and gave a presentation on the concept of Internet Banking which was rejected that same year.

Developed and tested theories of Memetic engineering with Leveious Rolando, for product marketing and using early Internet technology to track and study meme propigation and properties, 1993.

First CDN (See Netsys, SDSN)

Patents

• (WO/2000/041455) HIGH PERFORMANCE WEB SERVER
• (WO/2005/013661) SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR HEAT REMOVAL
• (US 20050168941) System and apparatus for heat removal
• (WO/2005/048082) ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD
• (US 8788096) Self-balancing robot having a shaft-mounted head

Streaming Video

Did the first Internet video streaming for Sun Microsystems in 1990.

Inventor of the Livecam The first Internet Streaming video product in 1994. The Livecam become the dominant video streaming technology in the Adult industry. It was acquired by Digital Video Technology Inc (DVT) that was later acquired by DVBS Inc. (Digital Video Broadcast systems) http://www.livecamserver.com/

Founder of Netsys Inc, that made the first Internet CDN branded SDSN in 1994.

Arthur C. Clarke Cybercasts

Did the first large scale Internet video streaming Arthur C. Clarke Cybercasts

March 14,1997

CyberCast of Arthur C. Clarke] Live from Sri Lanka to UIUC near Chicago. Over 3000 live viewer of the event and the video stream from Sri Lanka to Chicago, the main stream from Sri Lanka was done using the Livecam over SPAK protocol. Outbound steaming with done using several streaming technologies. Livecam, Xing Streamworks, Vosaic, Real Audio.

May 21, 1998

"A Day on Europa" at Nasa/JPL Caltech

April 30, 1998

American Film Institute in Los Angeles with Tom Hanks and Bill Anders (Apollo 8 astronaut).

Writing

John Sokol's home page

The owner of videotechnology.com writing articles on video since 2002.

Blogs

• John Sokol's Blog
• Video Technology Discussion of all things video technology related
• Church of BSD Intended to be a BSD only blog, but now it's about all Unix Like Free Operating Systems, Linux, FreeBSD etc.
• green ideas thinktank green ideas for power, products and designs

Papers

• Simplified Hypercube Representation For Binary Spaces
• Multi-discipline analysis of Music Copyright
• Method of passing bi-directional data between two firewalls
• Economics of Video and the Internet
• From my time at Stanford University
• Solving the Denial Of Service attacks
• History of BSD Unix
• Testing of the IJG JPEG Library Tests are done compressing the same image at different qualities and resolutions
• Sokol's Prime Conjecture
• Benchmark results from a test of 26 Different PC / UNIX systems from 386 to P4
• Benchmark results from PC / UNIX systems of GCC with and without the -O3 compiler Optimization in use.
• February 2001 The Amorphous Operating System (PPT Version) Presented at the ACCU
• Cell Processors for use in Hard Drives, Chuch Moore CPU, Enumera (PPT Version)
• MeshCast P2P Audio Streaming Business plan intended to be based on ECIP - Error Correction over IP

Open Source

Worked on the release of 386BSD the first open source Unix from 1987 to 1992.

Attended the DebConf6 (Debian Conference 2006) as a guest. Left the conference early as a principled stand, when Debian member Ted Walther was mistreated.

Afterburner Web Server

Afterburner Web Server

John Sokol's Blog: AfterBurner Web Server

RTelnet

RTelnet Reverse telnet.

RTelnet is a reverse Telnet, it's incredibly useful to get behind firewalls and NAT's or routers running IP masquerading very useful for remotely admin someones PC remotely when they don't know how to do anything like opening their firewall.

ViVi

ViVi VIrtual VIdeo Driver in Linux 2.6.17 and above

The VIVI driver; a great starting point for V4L2 driver writers

Past businesses and ventures

• Direct Data Resource - Founder, Macintosh Repair Company in New Jersey 1985
• Excalibur electronics. - Partner, Hand Held Digital Oscilloscope (Business plan & prototype, never got off the ground) 1986
• [Zebra Research ] - Founder, PC Parallel Printer Port Audio Play and Record Dongle and Software library to play 6 Bit digital Audio on PC Internal Speaker. Also GPIB/HPIB/IEEE488 over PC Printer port. 1987-1993
• BarToy - Partner in (Business plan & prototype, never got off the ground) 1988
• [Stellar Designs ] - Partner in Laser Show Company Based in New Jersey.
• CyberJava - Partner, First Internet Cafe in Southern California 1994
• Sokol & Assoc. - Founder, Internet Consulting Company Based in Venice Beach California. 1994
• Fountain Head - Partner in Internet Consulting Company 1994
• [Hazardous Media] - Partner in Independent Film Company. 1996
• Netsys - Founder 1994 First CDN, called SDSN 1994
• Symatrix - Founder , CDN 1994
• Direct Net - Partnered with them on Early Steaming video and Hollywood Movie web site hosting. 1995
• Omnetrix - Partner, Internet Consulting Company 1996
• Process Network Productions - Partner, Internet Consulting Company 1996
• Light Entertainment - Partner, Internet Consulting Company 1996
• ThePinkPages - Partner, 1996
• AlphaWorld - Partner, Video Steaming Service provider. Billing Per Minute with Chat. 1996
• IBS - Internet Broadcast Systems - Founder, Selling Livecam Servers & CDN 1996
• DVT - Digital Video Technology - Founder, Video Steaming Service provider. Billing Per Minute with Chat. 1996
• KMJ - Kenny Michael John - Various Investments and Holdings. 1996
• IDBS - International Digital Broadcast Systems - Founder, Selling Livecam Servers & CDN
• L.I.V.E - Live Interactive Video Entertainment - Partner ,Selling Livecam Servers & CDN 1996
• Vidx - Video Steaming Service provider. Partner, Billing Per Minute with Chat. 1996
• CCI Cyber Communications Inc. Korea Based - Partner, Selling Livecam Servers & CDN, Developed early CCTV DVR. 1997
• DVBS - Digital Video Broadcast Systems, Founder, Went Public on VSE, - Selling Livecam Servers & CDN 1998-200
• Access Los Angeles - Partner, Hollywood Entertainment web portal. 1997
• Zydeo - Partner, Selling Livecam Servers. 2000
• [Enumera ] - Founder, Blade Servers, and 50x core Cell Processor 1999-2002
• Vigilant Devices - Founder, Free View Point Video from CCTV DVR, Cloud Storage of Video Data (Business plan only, never got off the ground) 2000
• [Meshcast ] - P2P streaming Audio company. (Business plan only, never got off the ground) 2000
• LinPDA - Partner, Linux Based PDA (Business plan & prototype, never got off the ground) 1999
• MailClad - Founder, Electronic Voting Solution. (Business plan only, never got off the ground) 2002
• Decash - Founder, Electronic Currency Solution, Similar to Bitcoin. (Business plan only, never got off the ground) 2002
• Exsentrik Enterprizes (Misspelling deliberate) - Partner, Next Generation Vending Machine Company (Just Prototype, never got off the ground) 2007
• ZBoxDVD - Partner, DVD Rental Vending Machine (deployed 10 systems failed to meet sales expectations then folded) 2005-2007
• Sunex - Partner, Software Consulting Company, Indian Software outsourcing 2006
• Vizor Inc. - Partner, Augmented Reality HMD (Business plan & prototype, still seeking funding) 2009
• Anybots Anybots Head of engineering in 2012 to 2014 , share holder 2011-2014
• Lil'bot Small self balancing , Mobile Inverted Pendulum robot on Kickstarter - Funded 2015
• Nisvara Inc. - Founder, Silent Computers and Computer Heat Management company, Partnered with NASA Ames in 2002-6. (inactive)
• Telepresence Robotics Corporation - Co-Founder 2016
• Luminar Technologies - Initial Team member 2018

Current businesses and ventures I am involved with

• Video Technology ] - Founder, Video Software Consulting Company & Blog 1994
• Roboterra - Chief Scientist 2015
• Neuron Drop 2018
• Electric Fish - Designing hardware. 2020