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To: Roger Bodine who wrote (32368)	4/18/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

A lot of jobs for digital video skills. techweb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Opportunities heat up on both coasts -- Digital video creates jobs at startup, Sarnoff By Junko Yoshida Princeton, N.J. - The emergence of digital video technologies is creating a number of new engineering jobs in both established companies on the East Coast and startups in Silicon Valley. Sarnoff Corp. , which has 850 people today, is planning to increase its staff by 10 percent this year. "New digital technologies are certainly driving the demand for IC designers and software and hardware engineers at Sarnoff," said Susan Gauff, vice president, people and communications, at Sarnoff, here. The company, now a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of SRI International, creates and commercializes electronic, biomedical and information technology. In the consumer electronics field, Sarnoff is one of the key players that have innovated the U.S. digital HDTV standard. Sarnoff seeks electrical engineers with an interest in charge-coupled-device design; IC designers; engineers with a specialty in microelectromechan- ical systems; and software and hardware engineers with specialties in computer vision, image processing, and video and multimedia. Similarly, opportunities abound at TeraLogic Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), a two-year-old startup specializing in digital-TV silicon development. With 55 people today-mostly engineers-TeraLogic plans to grow to 80 by the early third quarter, according to Peng Ang, chairman and chief executive officer. The company is looking for VLSI chip designers, software engineers, marketing managers, applications engineers and sales engineers. In particular, engineers with expertise in digital video technologies, graphics, microprocessors and real-time operating systems are in demand, Ang said. TeraLogic recently announced its first product, a single-chip graphics/video-processing IC designed to bring graphics-rich data services to analog or digital TVs. The company is also working on DTV-system silicon development, in parallel. Both Sarnoff and TeraLogic indicated their need for engineers with good business experience. TeraLogic is looking for field-application engineers with broad business experience in video products, set-tops and CPUs. "The business experience is essential, as they need to know how to sell to consumer-electronics manufacturers," said Kishore Manghnani, vice president of marketing. Sarnoff's Gauff noted, "We're looking for engineers and researchers with business experience and interest, and senior people who are good in interfacing with clients." Moreover, she added, "we want people with entrepreneurial spirit." "Intellectual properties are our core business at Sarnoff," Gauff said. "We create roughly 100 patents per year." To reward its employees, Sarnoff allows them "to share 25 percent of royalties and 25 percent of equity position of a new company" spun out of Sarnoff based on internally developed technologies, Gauff said......

To: Roger Bodine who wrote (32368)	4/18/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

EchoStar............................ 204.243.31.23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EchoStar to Launch 4th Satellite By MONICA HOGAN New York -- EchoStar Communications Corp. is expected to receive an official launch date sometime this week for its fourth direct-broadcast satellite. According to chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen, EchoStar IV should launch within the next four weeks. Speaking at the SkyForum conference here, Ergen said he was hopeful that this launch will be as successful as the previous three. He told reporters that he plans to invite all 30 members of EchoStar's "good-luck club" out to the launch in Kazakhstan. Each of the club members have been to all of the earlier launches, and Ergen is not willing to chance leaving any of the good-luck charms behind. EchoStar IV will be launched to the 119 degrees west orbital slot, from which the company's core Dish Network service is delivered. The new satellite will replace EchoStar I, which is to be repositioned to a slot at 148 degrees west to service the Western half of the country. Because it's a higher-power satellite, the new bird at 119 will allow EchoStar to add more channels to its core Dish Network lineup. The new satellite is expected to be operational by August. EchoStar IV was designed to make more efficient use of the 21 transponders that the company is licensed to use at 119.