Ross Snyder

Ancient & Retired. UC Berkeley interrupted by WWII, flew over Japan, returned UC postwar. Radio engineer/producer/classical FM station DJ, WDC, NYC, San Francisco. Founding member & Fellow, AES. Former member SMPTE, Acoustical Society. Ampex 1952-1957 as Audio Product Planning mgr., Theater Project mgr., Special (custom) Audio Products mgr. Sole technical contribution: invented Sel-Sync. 1957-1960 Video Products mgr. Then, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto & environs to 1987, instrumentation mktg., editor HP Journal, computer mktg.

[Webmaster's note: Ross Snyder passed away 1 January 2008. Here is is his obituary from the AES Journal, v. 56, nos. 1-2, p. 100. The text above is exactly as he wrote it.]