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Vice President and Associate Director, HP Labs
Howard Taub is vice president and associate director of
HP Labs, responsible for managing the lab's investments in
printing and imaging and its relationship with HP's Imaging
and Printing Group. In addition, Taub contributes to strategic
planning and management of HP Labs.
Previously, Taub was vice president and director of the Printing
and Imaging Research Center at HP Labs, managing research
programs in digital imaging, commercial printing and publishing,
photofinishing, digital entertainment, printer system architecture,
color science, displays and breakthrough personal storage
devices.
Under Taub's leadership, the center established a long history
of contribution to HP's printing and storage businesses.
These contributions included playing a central role in driving
HP's move into commercial printing, providing core technology
that enabled HP to enter the digital photography business
and inventing the encoding scheme that is used in all DVD+RW
optical drives.
Taub has worked at HP Labs for 26 years and, before that,
at the IBM Watson Research Center and for Dataproducts Corporation.
One of his early HP assignments was to manage the research
project that invented and did fundamental research on HP's
thermal inkjet technology.
Taub earned his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn in New York City. He is an inventor
on more than 20 patents in the printing and imaging area.
He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Society
for Imaging Science and Technology.
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