REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Ampex Corporation today announced it has made a gift to the Leland Stanford Junior University that will be used to help support Professor Bernd Girod in the Department of Electrical Engineering for his research in the area of intelligent video surveillance technology.
"We are grateful for the generous support of our research. Ampex has a long tradition of working with the University, and there is an exciting synergy between our work and Ampex's vision of the next generation of video surveillance technology," said Professor Girod.
"Ampex looks forward to a collaboration between our Advanced Technology Group and Professor Girod's Ph.D. students to develop further innovations in video data capture and manipulation," stated Gordon Strickland, Ampex Chairman and CEO.
Ampex Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is a world leader in design and development of advanced data storage technologies. To learn more about Ampex, please visit our website at http://www.ampexdata.com.
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