Dwight Marcus

Dwight Marcus (born Dwight Marcus Glodell), is the Chief Technology Officer and one of NPOWR Digital Medias' co-founders. Marcus is also the inventor of the stimTV™ Network which in 2007 won the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His son, Evan Glodell, was writer, director and star in the 2012 feature film Bellflowe, which was nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for best feature film made for under $500,000.

Career

Marcus attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was a Henry J. Fuller Scholar. Improvements in the information technology and broadband connectivity pushed Marcus' interest further in video-on-demand technology. For some time, Marcus served as Chief Technology Officer at Medic Interactive Corporation (1994), the Manhattan-based media technology company founded by Robert Whitmore. Marcus transitioned to NTECH, Inc. and its licensee NPOWR Digital Media, where his System for the Automated Generation of Media, filed in 1997, was awarded US patent (#6032156) in 2000.

Marcus, along with Klee Irwin, applied the on-demand technology at the heart of the patent as the basis for his next venture, stimTV™, a video-on-demand music entertainment provider founded in 2005. In 2007, stimTV was awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award© as part of the 58th Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, for "Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the best use of 'On Demand' Technology."

Mr. Marcus' patent and Emmy were awarded for the design and implementation of the first practical system of delivering VOD to individual viewers while still employing the high-momentum broadcast model. This real time unicast allows a non-stop stream of TV programming to be delivered to individual viewers in such a way that each viewer sees something different, while perceiving the experience as identical to traditional broadcast TV.

At present, Marcus is serving as founder and Managing Partner of Vushaper Inc., where he continues to develop technologies and applications for the creation and delivery of personalized media for general consumers and the healthcare industry.

Throughout his diverse career in entertainment and media technology, Marcus has melded his skills and interests as a technologist, engineer, musician and writer. He has maintained a parallel career as a musician and music producer as well. His early work was credited as Dwight Glodell and included a Billboard "Top Album Pick"^[1] as well as punk by New Math, 145 and The Presstones, dance/trance by Personal Effects. His later work, credited as Dwight Marcus, included work with a diverse group of artists including "The Outlaws", "The Obvious" as bandleader, producer and mixer, Juno Award winner Shirley Eikhard (1987) and most notably Wendy MaHarry (1990, 1991 and 2003).

In 1987, Marcus also wrote and directed a 16 mm poetry film If You Smoke, Thank You, which won the 19th Annual Poetry Film Festival held in Fort Mason, San Francisco. In 1999 Marcus released "News From the West," by Dwight Marcus and the Chamber of Poets, a long-form music video that blended music, poetry, experimental film and a ground-breaking use of 5.1 surround sound. News from the West is currently housed in the UC Berkeley Moffitt Library.^[2]

References

^ Billboard. Google Books. 1983-01-29. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
^ UC Berkley Moffitt Library

External links

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[1] Billboard. Google Books. 1983-01-29. Retrieved 2013-09-05.

[2] UC Berkley Moffitt Library

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